Tradable development rights (TDR) are discussed as a mechanism to reduce land consumption while ensuring an efficient implementation of profitable building projects. We present a novel laboratory experiment on the feasibility of TDR and simulate the acquisition and trading of development rights....

Reputational herding has been considered as a driving force behind economic and financial forecasts clustered around consensus values. Strategic coordination can consequently explain poor performances of prediction markets as resulting from the distinct incentives that forecasters face. While...

Certificate trading schemes have been discussed as a cost-efficient means of reducing land use in Germany by capping and reallocating permissions to conduct building projects. However, in contrast to the established cap & trade systems for emissions, reputation-seeking politicians would be in...

Die Einführung handelbarer Flächenzertifikate wird als Regulierungsinstrument zur Reduktion des Flächenverbrauchs in Deutschland diskutiert. Bislang fehlen jedoch empirische Studien zur Untersuchung der Wohlfahrts- und Umverteilungswirkung eines solchen cap & trade Systems. Insbesondere die...

In an experiment on moral cleansing with an endogenously manipulated moral self-image, we examine the relevance of the addressee of an immoral action. The treatments differ such that cheating on a die roll reduces either the experimenterś or another subjectś payoff. We find that cheating is...

Diese Studie zeigt am Beispiel von Südniedersachsen, wie mit der Methodik des Webscrapings effizient Informationen zu regionalen Akteuren wie Forschungseinrichtungen und Unternehmen gewonnen werden können. Webscraping beschreibt das systematische Auslesen der Inhalte von Webseiten und deren...

Das Entstehen der Plattformökonomie und die damit verbundene Konzentration von Datennutzung und -zugang sind zentrale Zukunftsherausforderungen für Handwerksunternehmen. Diese Studie untersucht die Entwicklungen der Plattformökonomie und deren ökonomische Auswirkungen für das Handwerk....

Behavioral biases in forecasting, particularly the lack of adjustment from current values and the overall clustering of forecasts, are increasingly explained as resulting from the anchoring heuristic. Nonetheless, the classical anchoring experiments presented in support of this interpretation...