infonet-economy

Die Antrittsvorlesung von PD Dr. Andrea Schenker-Wicki an der Hochschule St. Gallen ist auch für die Studierenden von aktueller Brisanz. Werden sie doch laufend gemessen, während die Leistung des Bildungsinstituts als ganzes oder gar einzelner Professoren im Bereich oft haltloser Einschätzung verbleibt. Neben studentischen Anliegen gibt es aber natürlich vorallem eine Reihe von...

One of the major functions of transfer pricing is the optimal coordination of internal trade between responsibility centers in decentralized firms. According to standard theory the efficient level of internal trade is achieved by marginal cost pricing. If one of the firm's profit centers faces duopolistic competition on the final product market, the firm's headquarters can...

Economic literature has proposed several incentive mechanisms in order to induce agents in divisionalized organizations to reveal their private information. Among these mechanisms the class of Groves mechanisms has the distinguishing property of implementing truthful reporting as an equilibrium in dominant strategies. However, critiques maintain that agents may collude and transmit...

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