Although recent experiences made during the ongoing international financial crisis call for smaller entities in banking systems, consolidation still takes place in many industrialized economies. The often stretched argument that large banks are able to establish economies of scale as well as...

Order picking deals with the retrieval of articles from their storage locations in order to satisfy customer requests. A major issue in manual order picking systems concerns of the transformation and consolidation of customer orders into picking orders (order batching). In practice, customer...

We introduce, discuss, and provide an empirical appraisal of kangaroo seminars as a new instrument for knowledge transfer in fast-growing research fields. By promoting active project-based and cooperative learning, kangaroo seminars combine educational goals with the institutional goal of fast...

We study the behavior of employers and employees in a gift exchange game and find that employers offer lower wages when there is the risk of losing money. This, however, does not lead to lower effort level choices. In fact, effort per wage unit is significantly higher in the treatment with...

Literature indicates that culture influences consumers' expectations on a product or service, how they perceive performance, handle disconfirmation resulting from the comparison of expectations and perceived product or service performance, as well as their satisfaction. The study compares the...

Das vorliegende Papier gibt einen Überblick über das zusätzliche Bildungsangebot im Land Sachsen-Anhalt. Als zusätzlich werden dabei solche Ma_nahmen und Programme verstanden, die neben dem Regelschul-, Ausbildungs- und Studiensystem auf Initiative unterschiedlicher Akteure eingerichtet...

Dieses Papier beschreibt die Qualifikation der Bevölkerung sowie den Bestand kognitiver und nicht-kognitiver Fähigkeiten in Sachsen-Anhalt im Vergleich zu anderen ausgewählten Bundesländern. Grundlage der Untersuchung sind Daten aus dem Mikrozensus und dem Sozio- Ökonomischen Panel....

Complexity of strategies is central for human decision making and attracted interest of different game theorists in the recent years. Nevertheless, behavioral economists have neglected the importance of complexity in their analyses. In this paper, we analyze network formation and action...

Analyzing static lot sizing problems has always attracted a considerable interest in scientific literature. A commonly applied methodology to solve the trade-off between setup and holding costs is to order the Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) whenever the corresponding inventory is depleted. Yet,...

The QALY concept is the commonly used approach in research to evaluate the efficiency of therapies in cost utility analysis. We investigate the risk neutrality assumption for time of the QALY concept: can time be included as a linear factor? Various studies show that this assumption does not...