Seit Mitte der 1990er Jahre werden verschiedene Internet-basierte Informationssysteme für den überbetrieblichen Austausch von produkt- und prozessbezogenen Daten zwischen Landwirten und den vor- und nachgelagerten Wertschöpfungsstufen entwickelt. Obwohl die meisten IT-Lösungen inzwischen...

Overbuilding in commercial real estate in the 1980s is commonly viewed as an example of a speculative bubble. This paper questions that view and proposes an environment in which overbuilding could occur as a rational response to fiscal policy in the 1980s. Further, this paper contends that...

The idea that individuals adapt their behaviors in response to changes in incentive systems is fundamental to most economic analysis. This paper incorporates the concept of price discovery costs into the incentive theory to offer a theoretical model and empirical evidence on the differential...

Linear regression models are frequently used to analyze distributive politics in the U.S. Congress; however, authors have used a variety of specifications with different implicit assumptions about how bicameralism shapes legislative bargaining. I derive a model that describes district or state...