Der Autor zeigt in seiner Arbeit, dass Märkte von einer Vielzahl von Unsicherheitslagen durchzogen sind. Dazu zählen Unsicherheiten in marktwirtschaftlichen Kontexten (z.B. ein ruinöser Preiswettbewerb) und Unsicherheit in der marktwirtschaftlichen Zusammenarbeit (etwa Unsicherheit bezüglich...

We study theoretically and empirically how consumers in an individual private long-term health insurance market with front-loaded contracts respond to newly mandated portability requirements of their old-age provisions. To foster competition, effective 2009, German legislature made the...

This paper reviews the theoretical and empirical literature on the different channels through which blockholders (large shareholders) engage in corporate governance. In classical models, blockholders exert governance through direct intervention in a firm's operations, otherwise known as "voice."...

This chapter analyzes the evolution of welfare states and redistributive models in Eastern Europe and in the countries belonging to the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). The highest levels of total social spending and degrees of redistribution were consolidated in countries with...