Business practices and performance vary widely across businesses within the same sector. A key outstanding question is why profitable practices do not readily diffuse. We conduct a field experiment among urban retailers in Indonesia to study whether alleviating informational and behavioral...

Die (hohen) Preise für Öko-Lebensmittel werden von Verbrauchern in nahezu allen Befragungen als bedeutendster Grund angegeben, nicht mehr Öko-Lebensmittel zu kaufen. Bei näherer Betrachtung des auf den ersten Blick sehr einleuchtenden Arguments ergeben sich allerdings zahlreiche Fragen. Zum...

The registration of sales is a topical issue of the tax policy and one of the recent measures against the shadow economy and tax evasion introduced in the Czech Republic. After its implementation, first evaluations of the impact on tax revenues are being provided. Within this paper, we discuss...

Having forecast of real estate sales done correctly is very important for balancing supply and demand in the housing market. However, it is very difficult for housing companies or real estate professionals to determine how many houses they will sell next year. Although this does not mean that a...