We study the role of whistleblowing in the following inspection game. Two agents who compete for a prize can either behave legally or illegally. After the competition, a controller investigates the agents' behavior. This inspection game has a unique Bayesian equilibrium in mixed strategies. We...

The Greek bail-out was highly controversial. An oft-heard assessment is that i) the bail-out was a mistake, ii) the political haggling over it was irrational and iii) the bail-out will create a moral hazard problem. Contrary to this view, our analysis suggests that, given EMU's present...

Unternehmen können von einer effektiven Bewirtschaftung ihrer Daten sowie vom Datenteilen mit anderen Unternehmen profitieren. Datenempfänger können die Daten beispielsweise für Produkt- oder Prozessoptimierungen nutzen und Datengeber können ein Entgelt erhalten. Allerdings erfolgt die...

Die Energiewende bürdet den Verbrauchern zunehmende Lasten auf. Relativ zu ihrem Einkommen fallen diese Belastungen für einkommensschwache Haushalte stäker aus als für einkommensstarke Haushalte. Die Ergebnisse unserer empirischen Erhebung unter mehr als 11.000 Haushalten zeigen jedoch, dass...

In the 2008 Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) Pretest, the factorial survey method was tested for the first time for use in the SOEP longitudinal study. In this paper, we describe the construction and application of the vignette module, which has its origins in the field of justice research and...

Income comparisons are among the key mechanisms used to explain satisfaction and happiness, among other outcomes. Yet progress on the questions of who people use as social referents and whether differential selection patterns exist can only be made based on valid and reliable measures of pay...

Social comparisons are an essential source of information about the self. Research in social psychology has shown individual variation in the tendency toward comparison with other people's opinions and abilities, raising the question of whether social comparisons are driven by psychological...

The aim of this doctoral project is an empirical analysis of questions concerning economics of education, in particular education policy. The first key aspect is the relationship between public opinion and the level of information of the population. As part of this, a first research project...

A Note on the Evolution of Inequality in Poland, 1992-99 (reprinted from Cambridge Journal of Economics, Vol. 27, No. 5, 2003, pp. 755-768, by permission of Cambridge Political Economy Society) Income inequality in Poland, after falling over the period 1993-96, rose significantly from 1997...

The paper analyses economic inequality in Croatia in comparison with other transition economies of Central, East and Southeast Europe. It comprises a literature review and a descriptive analysis as well as an econometric modelling exercise. The main findings are the following Over the entire...