Followers of law, politics and business commonly relate stories of individuals who appear to predict an expected self-performance level below what they believe likely. Candidates, attorneys and firms sometimes seem to under-predict their own capacities. Insofar as individuals typically construct...

The Coase theorem tells us that monetary damages and specific performance remedies for breach of contract have identical effects when transaction costs are zero. This has become a standard part of the literature on the economics of contract law. This note argues that the traditional view is...

In einer Währungsunion besteht für die Mitgliedsländer keine Möglichkeit mehr, durch eine vorübergehende Störung verursachte binnenwirtschaftliche Ungleichgewichte mittels Anpassung des nominalen Wechselkurses zu korrigieren. Wenn die supranationale Geldpolitik unionsweiten, die nationale...