Declining general trust has become a serious social issue in China in recent years. This paper attempts to understand and analyze this social phenomenon from a social interaction perspective. Based on a repeated prisoners ́dilemma game on networks, it finds that the evolution of general trust...

We examine the ability of intergroup contact to ameliorate the effect of in-group bias on economic outcomes. Specifically, we employ randomized experiments to test whether actual and imagined contact is effective in reducing prejudice between indigenous Malawian shopkeepers (in-group), and their...

This study sheds light on how employees identify with organizational change after a cross-border acquisition. Specifically, we tested how target and bidder employees identify against each other. We extend previous findings from the literature that both acquiring and target organizations continue...

Chinaś rapid economic ascent has been accompanied by brilliant institutionalist scholarship elaborating on the significance of institutional diversity for Chinaś recent development trajectory. As valuable as these analyses are, their foundation in the transition literature seems to have...

Among the phenomena in economics that are not yet well-understood is the fat-tailed (power-law) distribution of firm sizes in the worldś economies. Different mechanisms suggested in the literature to explain this distribution of firm sizes are discussed in the present paper. The paper uses the...

This experimental study measures three types of overconfidence in the decision behavior of participants from Germany and Japan. In the first stage of the experiment subjects completed a Raven Progressive Matrices test and subsequently assessed their test performance in absolute and relative...

Vorliegende Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit dem Regionalismus in Südkorea und seinen Ursachen: 1. Ökonomische Ursachen - ungleiche wirtschaftliche Entwicklung in den Regionen 2. Politische Ursachen - regional unausgewogene Rekrutierung der politisch-administrativen Elite - regionalistische...

Dieses Arbeitspapier ist das Ergebnis eines ostasienwissenschaftlichen Seminars der Universität Duisburg zu den deutschen/europäischen außenpolitischen und außenwirtschaftspolitischen Beziehungen mit Japan, dessen Zielsetzung die Erstellung eines Gutachtens für das Auswärtige Amt war...

Die vorliegende Arbeit untersucht den Einsatz des umweltpolitischen Instrumentariums des japanischen Staates zur Senkung der CO2 -Emissionen in der japanischen Elektrizitätswirtschaft. Um den Erfolg der staatlichen Maßnahmen bewerten zu können, wird die Wirkungsweise des Instrumentenmixes...

Considering the effects of globalization on the political performance opportunities of nation states, we may detect a more transnational orientation in policy formulation as a challenging factor. In Malaysia, e.g., issues of nationbuilding might be affected in various ways, reflecting either the...