This paper explores the business cycle in Bulgaria and the Baltic countries: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania during the 1993-2005 period. The paper aims at deepening the understanding of the nature of output fluctuations. The neoclassical approach will be employed, much in the spirit of the Real...

Anna Priester untersucht in acht Experimenten, wie sich die Anwendung des Dynamic Pricing auf die Wahrnehmung und Reaktion der Konsumenten auswirkt und welche Einflussfaktoren hierbei eine Rolle spielen. Sie bietet zunächst eine konzeptionelle Analyse und Abgrenzung des...

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Insights into Privacy Research -- Chapter 3. Citizen Privacy Profile Framework -- Chapter 4. Fuzzy-based Privacy Settings Recommender System -- Chapter 5. Conclusions.

This thesis contains three essays in industrial organization. Chapter 1 studies escalating fines for repeat offenders, that is, fine increases in the number of previous offenses. We demonstrate that a fine-setting authority does not in fact have an incentive to increase the fine for repeat...