Publications des institutions partenaires
Ökonomie und Psychologie: eine Übersicht
"Moderne Ökonomie und Sozialpsychologie beschäftigen sich beide mit der Erklärung menschlichen Verhaltens. Dieser Artikel gibt eine Übersicht über die Interaktion zwischen den beiden Wissenschaften. Zum einen werden einige grundlegende Aspekte dieser Beziehung diskutiert; zum anderen werden die Ergebnisse neuerer empirischer Arbeiten dargestellt. Im Zentrum stehen Erweiterungen...
Institution partenaire
Deutsch / 01/10/2001
Money Illusion and the Double Dividend in the Short Run
In their seminal paper, Bovenberg and De Mooij (1994) elucidate why an ecological tax reform will not yield a double dividend, i.e. fails to increase the efficiency of the tax system. The present paper slightly modifies the Bovenberg and De Mooij model by introducing money illusion. With this modification, an environmental tax reform that raises the price level may generate a double...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/10/2001
Liliput oder Leviathan? Der Staat in der Globalisierten Wirtschaft
Globalization is often seen to result in a smaller (Liliput) or larger (Leviathan) state. But future public activity will be more flexible. Persons have multiple identities. They can be citizens of sub- and supra-national jurisdictions, semi- and non-governmental organizations and private units, even profit-oriented firms. Such attachment may be temporary, multiple or partial. To...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/08/2001
Stochastic Tastes and Money in a Neo-Keynesian Economy
This paper studies a monetary economy with heterogenous agents in which trade takes place in a centralized market. Each agent is a potential producer and consumer of a service (or perishable good) but has stochastic preferences that determines his taste for the good in each period in time. Money serves as a medium of exchange as well as a store of value. We prove existence of...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/08/2001
From Rags to Riches: On Constant Proportions Investment
This paper studies the performance of self-financing constant proportions trading strategies, i.e. dynamic asset allocation strategies that keep a fixed constant proportion of wealth invested in each asset in all periods in time. We prove that any self-financing constant proportions strategy yields a strictly positive exponential rate of growth of investor's wealth in a...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/08/2001
Finanzintermediäre - Grössennachteile und Spezialisierungsvorteile
Fuer das Entstehen von Finanzintermediaeren existieren in der theoretischen Literatur zahlreiche ueberzeugende Begruendungen, die konsequent zu Ende gedacht allerdings auf einen Finanzintermediaer als natuerliches Monopol hinauslaufen. Beitraege, die Grenzen fuer das Wachstum von Finanzintermediaeren aufzeigen, sind indessen selten. Das vorliegende Papier baut auf einem Modell von...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/08/2001
Cycles of aggregate behavior in theory and experiment
We test in the laboratory the potential of evolutionary dynamics as predictor of actual behavior. To this end, we propose an asymmetric game (which we interpret as a borrower–lender relation), we study its evolutionary dynamics in a random matching setup, and we test its predictions. The theoretical model provides conditions for changes in qualitative aggregate behavior in response...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/08/2001
Homo Oeconomicus Versus Homo Reciprocans: Ansätze für ein Neues Wirtschaftspolitisches Leitbild?
Politik und öffentliches Bewusstsein werden zunehmend durch ökonomische Theorien und Handlungsvorschläge mitbestimmt. Kaum ein anderes erkenntnis- und handlungsleitendes Modell hat daher einen vergleichbaren Einfluss wie das Konzept des Homo Oeconomicus. Durch die Entwicklung experimenteller Methoden ist es möglich, die Annahmen dieses Konzepts unter kontrollierten Laborbedingungen...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/07/2001
The Lucas Critique in Practice: An Empirical Investigation of the Impact of European Monetary ...
An empirical investigation of the term structure (the relation of the long interest rate to the short interest rate) showed structural change as the deadline for the euro became closer. Our empirical analysis of the term structures (yield curves) in 12 OECD countries uncovers that econometrically estimated behavioural equations for most EMU countries were stable even in the light of...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/07/2001
Market Selection of Financial Trading Strategies: Global Stability
In this paper we analyze the long-run dynamics of the market selec-tion process among simple trading strategies in an incomplete asset market with endogenous prices. We identify a unique surviving finan-cial trading strategy. Investors following this strategy asymptotically gather total market wealth. This result generalizes findings by Blume and Easley (1992) to any complete or...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/07/2001
How to Regulate Vertical Market Structure in Network Industries
This paper analyzes the equilibrium outcomes in a network industry under daccess pricing, investment, vertical foreclosureifferent vertical market structures. In this industry, an upstream monopolist operates a network used as an input to produce horizontally differentiated final products that are imperfect substitutes. Three potential drawbacks of market structure regulation are...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/07/2001
Wer die Stadien finanziert - Baustelle Fussball-Arena: FTD-Serie über das Milliardengeschäft mit der Sportart Nummer Eins (Folge 1)
Wer die Stadien finanziert; Während sich die Bundesliga-Profis im Urlaub befinden, ist an ihren Arbeitsstätten einiges los. Manche Stadien werden umgebaut, andere abgerissen und neu errichtet. Ziel ist, Austragungsort bei der WM 2006 in Deutschland zu werden. In loser Folge beschreibt diese Serie in den nächsten Wochen die spektakulärsten Veränderungen.. Von Helmut Dietl und Markus...
Institution partenaire
Deutsch / 13/06/2001
Fossile Energiepolitik jenseits von Kyoto
Given the USA`s refusal to ratify there is little hope for the Kyoto agreement on curbing CO2 emissions. This paper thus pledges for a national energy policy beyond Kyoto based on local external effects stemming from the combustion of fossil fuels. Due to varying external effects a national policy will differentiate energy taxes between fuels. Using Swiss estimates of external...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/06/2001
Was erklärt die steigenden Managerlöhne? Ein Diskussionsbeitrag
"Die Entlohnung von Topmanagern ist in den westlichen Industrieländern über die letzten Jahre markant angestiegen. Wir stellen verschiedene Ansätze dar, welche diese Entwicklung zu erklären versuchen, und prüfen sie auf ihren Erklärungsgehalt: (1) Die Entwicklung ist das Ergebnis eines gut funktionierenden Marktprozesses; sie beruht auf strukturellen Veränderungen auf der...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/06/2001
Productivity Differences
Many technologies used by the LDCs are developed in the OECD economies and are designed to make optimal use of the skills of these richer countries' workforces. Differences in the supply of skills create a mismatch between the requirements of these technologies and the skills of LDC workers, and lead to low productivity in the LDCs. Even when all countries have equal access to...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/05/2001
Economic Growth and Business Cycles: A Critical Comment on Detrending Time Series - REVISED VERSIO
In this paper we pursue an approach based on economic theory to illustrate possible shortcomings of widely-used detrending methods. Wenanalyze a simple model of economic growth and business cycles in which investment and technical progress are stochastic. The Hodrick-Prescottnand the Baxter-King filter are shown to detect spurious business cycles which are not related to actual...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/05/2001
Driving Forces of Informal Sanctions
"Informal sanctions are a major determinant of a society’s social capital because they are key to the enforcement of implicit agreements and social norms. Yet, little is known about the driving forces behind informal sanctions. We systematically examine the determinants of informal sanctions by a large number of experiments. Our experiments allow us to identify the...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/05/2001
Are Stock Options the Managers' Blessing? Stock Option Compensation and Institutional Controls
Stock option grants to top managers have largely contributed to the dramatic increase in US executive pay in recent years. In this paper it is argued that stock options, compared to other forms of compensation, have created strong incentives for managers to engage in lobbying activities for higher compensation. The empirical results presented for the S&P 500 firms and the years...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/04/2001
Theories of Fairness and Reciprocity - Evidence and Economic Applications
Most economic models are based on the self-interest hypothesis that assumes that all people are exclusively motivated by their material self-interest. In recent years experimental economists have gathered overwhelming evidence that systematically refutes the self-interest hypothesis and suggests that many people are strongly motivated by concerns for fairness and reciprocity....
Institution partenaire
English / 01/04/2001
Global CO2-Trade and Local Externalities
The burning of fossil fuels not only causes CO2 emissions but at the same time impairs local environmental quality such as ambient air quality. The present paper analyzes the possible distortion arising from international trade in CO2 emissions when local externalities persist. It is theoretically derived that the maximal possible distortion is determined by the difference in factor...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/04/2001
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