This paper investigates the merits of different democratic institutions when politics is unidimensional, when there is uncertainty both about the preferences of the future electorate and the future polarization of political parties, and when politicians have better information about the state of...

The paper investigates strategic campaigning in a model of redistributive politics in a society with many groups and two parties. Campaigns are informative, and parties can target campaigns to different groups. Voters are uncertain about whether parties favor special groups. The parties will...

This paper investigates the effects on tacit collusion of increased market transparency on the consumer side of a market in a differentiated Hotelling duopoly. Increasing market transparency increases the benefits to a firm from underbutting the collusive price. It also decreases the punishment...

This paper concerns public funding of parties. Parteis receive public funds depending on their vote share. Funds finance electoral campaigns. Two cases are investigated. In the first, some voters are policy motivated and some are ?impressionable? ? their vote depends directly on campaign...

The Technology Transfer Challenge -- List of Contributors -- Part 1 -- Inventions and their commercial exploitation in German universities: Analyzing determinants among academic researchers -- Do startups benefit from incubation? An analysis of startups’ absorptive capacity -- Absorptive...