Jahrg. 26 ∙ Nr. 3 ∙ Januar 2019

Der Branchenreport Innovation für die Branche Getränke- und Tabakindustrie stellt die Innovationsleistung der Branche im Jahr 2017 dar. Der Anteil der Unternehmen mit…

While emissions trading schemes are developed by nations to mitigate their greenhouse gas emissions, behavioural studies have shown that the political and public acceptability of these market-based instruments…

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   • International Conference on “Technology, Demographics, and the Labor Market”
   • Eighth Mannheim Energy Conference
   • Ninth Edition of the Competition and Innovation Summer School…

• Economic Expectations for China Rise, but Remain Very Negative
• 22 analysts participated in the December survey, which was conducted during the period 28 November till 13 December 2018

Feed-in tariffs are a widespread policy instrument to support the diffusion of renewable energy technologies. I investigate the impact of the size-based differentiation of these tariffs on the adoption of…

Bidding in first-price auctions crucially depends on the beliefs of the bidders about their competitors' willingness to pay. We analyze bidding behavior in a first-price auction in which the knowledge of…

I investigate the decision problem of a player in a game of incomplete information who faces uncertainty about the other players' strategies. I propose a new decision criterion which works in two steps.…

We consider the problem of a principal who wishes to contract with a privately informed agent and is not able to commit to not renegotiating any mechanism. That is, we allow the principal, after observing…

Using a lab experiment, we investigate the real-life performance of envy-free and proportional cake-cutting procedures with respect to fairness and preference manipulation. We nd that envy-free…