Kooperation stellt einen wichtigen Faktor beim Erreichen ökonomischer Ziele dar. Dient Kooperation den eigenen Interessen, lässt dies eine relativ triviale Erklärung kooperativer Handlungsweisen anhand von Eigennutz zu. Gilt dies jedoch nicht, ist eine genauere Analyse kooperativer...

"Economists increasingly recognise that engagement with social ontology - the study of the basic subject matter and constitution of social reality - can facilitate more relevant analysis. This growing recognition amongst economists of the importance of social ontology is due very considerably to...

We consider both a parametric and a semiparametric method to account for classification errors on the dependent variable in an ordered response model. The methods are applied to the analysis of self-reported speaking fluency of male immigrants in Germany. We find that a parametric model which...