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We present a field experiment to assess the effect of own and peer wage variations onactual work effort of employees with hourly wages. Work effort neither reacts to anincrease of the own wage, nor to a positive or negative peer comparison. This resultseems at odds with numerous laboratory...

In an experimental study we examine a variant of the ‘minimum effort game’, acoordination game with Pareto ranked equilibria, and risk considerations pointing to theleast efficient equilibrium. We focus on the question whether simple cues such as smiles,winks and handshakes could be...

Trust games are employed to investigate the effect of heterogeneity in income and5 race on cooperation in South Africa. The amount of socio-economic informationavailable to the subjects about their counterparts is varied. No significantbehavioural differences are observed when no such...

We study the effect of fair institutions on growth. In our model, individuals are endowed with unequal entitlements to theeconomy’s output. They can free-ride or cooperate. Cooperation is individually costly, but increases aggregate output and growth.Experimentally, we observe significantly...

Vom Internet gehen wesentliche Veränderungen auf die Markenpflege aus. Die klassischeMarkenpflege, die durch geplante Aktionen in kontrollierter Umwelt gekennzeichnetist, stellt sich für das Web 2.0-Zeitalter als zu kurz gegriffen heraus. Der Markenmanagermuss unter diesen neuen Bedingungen...

The economic literature on online auctions is rapidly growing because of theenormous amount of freely available field data, moreover the emergence ofnumerous innovative auction design features on auction platforms such aseBay have created excellent research opportunities. In this article, we...

Das Operations Research (OR) als vergleichsweise junge wissenschaftliche Disziplin hat sich mittlerweile fest innerhalb der BWL etabliert. Modelle und Lösungsverfahren des OR lassen sich vielfältig und nutzbringend zur Analyse komplexer betriebswirtschaftlicher Fragestellungen einsetzen...

River floods are part of the natural hydrologic cycle and mayoccur several times per year, caused by heavy downpours andsnowmelt. However, in recent years, often attributed to globalwarming, an increasing number of extreme flood events couldbe observed in central Europe. Moreover, these events...

In manual order picking systems, order pickers walk or drive through a distribution warehouse inorder to collect items which are requested by (internal or external) customers. In order to performthese operations efficiently, it is usually required that customer orders are combined into (more...