It has often been noted that the "null-hypothesis-significance-testing" (NHST) framework is an inconsistent hybrid of Neyman-Pearson's "hypothesis testing" and Fisher's "significance testing" that almost inevitably causes misinterpretations. To facilitate a realistic assessment of the potential...

Regulatory policies often aim to steer the behaviour of economic agents by changing their framework conditions. Assessing the impact of such policies requires forecasts of how humans adapt to changes in their economic environment. A prerequisite for a meaningful policy impact analysis is a...

Economic experiments have traditionally been conducted in laboratory settings. Since experimental conditions can be easily controlled and manipulated in the lab, high internal validity can be achieved. The external validity of lab experiments, however, is often poor due to the highly stylized...

Stickstoffeinträge in Oberflächengewässer stellen ein schwerwiegendes Externalitätenproblem der landwirtschaftlichen Produktion dar. Umwelt- und Verbraucherschützer fordern, diese Externalitäten durch staatliche Eingriffe zu reduzieren. Vor diesem Hintergrund betrachtet die vorliegende...

Weather-index insurances are innovative risk management instruments that - compared to conventional insurances - cause low administration and regulation costs and are not accompanied by moral hazard or adverse selection problems. Despite these advantages, farmers make little use of weather-index...

Little is known about the actual behavior of farmers who are offered forward contracts for renewable resources. The present survey explores farmers' acceptance of sugar beet supply contracts. We find that the farmers' responses are not in line with forecasts that are based on critical prices...

Attractive working and living conditions are crucial in the competition for skilled workers. While the overall number of studies that investigate job and life satisfaction has increased substantially over the last few years, detailed regional and branch specific descriptions of the job and life...

Digitalization is progressing more and more and increasingly influencing business processes in companies. In this context, e-commerce plays an important role for the future development of rural areas. Nonetheless, there is so far no study which investigates the use of e-commerce for business...

Chemical plant protection and protection by genetic modification of crops are being discussed controversially by the public as well as by the agri-food industry itself. However, attitudes towards different methods of plant protection have so far only been studied by standard surveys, which may...