Über 1,59 Bill. DM wurden von 1991 bis 1999 in den neuen Ländern investiert. Trotz der schon relativ ausgeprägten Kapitalintensität bleiben aber Arbeits- und Kapitalproduktivität der ostdeutschen Unternehmen hinter der ihrer Konkurrenten zurück. Nach wie vor sind in Ostdeutschland die...

This article studies whether people want to control what information on their own past pro-social behavior is revealed to others. Participants are assigned a color that depends on their past pro-social behavior. They can spend money to manipulate the probability with which their color is...

Seminal models of herd behaviour and informational cascades point out existence of negative information externalities, and propose to ?destroy? information in order to achieve social improvements. Although in the last years many features of herd behaviour and informational cascades have been...

Does political polarization lead to dysfunctional behavior? To study this question, we investigate the attitudes of supporters of Donald Trump and of Hillary Clinton towards each other and how these attitudes affect spiteful behavior. We find that both Trump and Clinton supporters display less...