infonet-economy

The issue of ecological sustainability has been addressed in various contexts - local, regional and worldwide. This paper postulates that sustainability can be achieved only if actors at multiple levels cooperate towards the vision of a sustainable world. For this purpose, the structure of a model is presented, which shows how the efforts for sustainability can be organised in a more...

We document the widespread existence of antisocial punishment, that is, the sanctioning of people who behave prosocially. Our evidence comes from public goods experiments that we conducted in 16 comparable participant pools around the world. However, there is a huge cross-societal variation. Some participant pools punished the high contributors as much as they punished the low...

Grenzen strategischer Planung
Die klassische strategische Planung ist effektiv, solange man relativ treffsicher die Zukunft vorhersagen kann. Ist dies jedoch nicht möglich, wie in Situationen erhöhter Unsicherheit (wenn z.B. durch neue Technologien Marktregeln verändert werden oder sich Kundenbedürfnisse verändern), dann stösst der klassische Planungsprozess an seine Grenzen....

The use of microworlds (MWs), or complex dynamic systems, in educational testing and personnel selection is hampered by systematic measurement errors because these new and innovative item formats are not adequately controlled for their difficulty. This empirical study introduces a way to operationalize an MW's difficulty and demonstrates the strong effects of variations in it. A...

Given the sharp rise in crude oil prices and growing awareness of climate change, the potential of biofuels, particularly of bioethanol, has become an ubiquitous topic of public debate and has induced ambitious policy initiatives. The latter are mostly paired with protectionist measures as the examples of the European Union and the United States show, where domestic producers of...