An uninformed sender designs a mechanism that discloses information about her type to a privately informed receiver, who then decides whether to act. I impose a single-crossing assumption, so that the receiver with a higher type is more willing to act. Using a linear programming approach, I...

Combinations of point forecasts from expert forecasters are known to frequently outperform individual forecasts. It is also well documented that combination by simple averaging very often has performance superior to that of more sophisticated combinations. This empirical fact is referred to as...

Informationen gewinnen als betriebliche Ressource eine immer größer werdende Bedeutung. Daraus ergibt sich für das Management einer Organisation die Herausforderung, organisationale Strukturen zu gestalten, die dieser zunehmenden Bedeutung Rechnung tragen, um somit diese Ressource erfolgreich...

The paper develops a version of Pontryagin's maximum principle for optimal control problems with monotonicity constraints on control variables. Whereas the literature handles such constraints by imposing an assumption of piecewise smoothness on the control variable and treating the slope of this...