We estimate causal employment effects of investment subsidies for treated firms as a whole as well as heterogeneous effects depending on firm characteristics and economic environment. We modify the standard matching and difference-in-difference approach by introducing a combined statistical...

The German government provides discretionary investment grants to structural weak regions to allow them to overcome disadvantages. The legislatives of the European Union (EU) however restrict the number of supported regions: The share of population in assisted regions is not allowed to exceed an...

This paper develops a search and matching model with hierarchical firms, human capital accumulation, internal promotions and on-the-job search. At the time of their market entry firms maximize present value of profits with respect to their promotion rule. Workers who are eligible for promotion...

We experimentally investigate the relevance of (asymmetric) outside options in ultimatum bargaining. Building on the generalized equity principle formulated by Selten (1978) we derive three di erent equity rules. These equity rules can explain 43% of all o ers. Our within-subject design allows...

Games of imperfect information distribute information unevenly amongst parties. Recently, parties have been claimed to hold preferences purely over such procedural aspects. Here, I explore the impact purely procedural preferences exert if agents are without influence on the procedure itself. I...

The study looks at primary expenditure developments in the euro area, its three largest members and four “macro-imbalances” countries for the period 1999- 2009. It compares actual expenditure trends with those that would have prevailed if countries had followed neutral policies based on...

The coordination plays central role in the economics. The conventional economic theory looks at the market and enterprise (or hierarchy) as two different, separated manner of coordination of economic goods and services. However the modern organization theory, price theory and institutional...

Our paper does not study the rational man with his optimal choice, with his behavior once confronted with the problem of scarcity and resource allocation, nor does it study the man of cost-benefit analysis, the one of logical considerations, honest in his conclusions but free from emotional...

The focus of this research study is set in devising and evaluating the efficiency of B2B conceptual model for mobile interactive devices using Man Whitney U test which is a non-parametric test. As the case of this study is chosen creating a B2B model as an idea of linking businesses in region of...

Der Beitrag beinhaltet neben einer theoretisch-konzeptionellen Analyse der Frage, ob wirtschaftsplitische Beratung und Spitzenforschung, in einem substitutiven oder komplementären Verhältnis stehen, auch eine empirische Analyse. Dazu werden zum einen empirische Fakten über das...