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Wiermann, Christian - 2006

This dissertation is a collection of four stand-alone pieces of research, written during my time at the University of Konstanz between October 2003 and October 2006. It is based on the fundamental insight that considering individual heterogeneity in theoretical and empirical analyzes can...

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Four Essays on International Trade and Labour Markets

Weigert, Benjamin - 2007

The following dissertation is a collection of four stand-alone research papers. The common theme of all papers is the analysis of the decision of heterogeneous individuals about investing in education. The first paper analyses how these decisions affect the impact of globalisation or...

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On the initial allocation of tradeable pollution permits.

MacKenzie, Ian A. - 2007

The objective of this thesis is to investigate the initial allocation of pollution permits in a dynamic tradeable market. Tradeable pollution permit markets are an increasingly common method of environmental regulation and it is apparent that future schemes may have a number of repeated...

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The impact of inequity aversion on relational incentive contracts

Kragl, Jenny - 2009

Diese Dissertation enthält drei Aufsätze zur Theorie der Anreizsetzung bei nicht-verifizierbaren Leistungsmaßen. Untersuchungsgegenstand sind die Auswirkungen individueller Fairnesspräferenzen auf die Ausgestaltung und Eignung verschiedener Anreizmechanismen, welche in realen...

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Essays on incentive contracts under moral hazard and non-verifiable performance

Schoettner, Anja - 2005

measurement on wage costs in U- and J-type tournaments. In U-type tournaments prizes are fixed. In J-type tournaments only an …

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Tournaments in the public sector

Souza Junior, Celso Vila Nova de - 2008

individualistic schemes. The empirical literature on Tournaments has been grown. However, many studies use no appropriate data. This … month, which allowed us to support the predictions raised above. In order to examine the tournaments predictions we … hypothesis of learning by doing. The results also demonstrated evidence to support the following tournaments hypothesis: (1 …

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Creating the Hot Hand Effect with a Grand Prize

McFall, Todd A. - 2005

of a grand prize for performance in a sequence of tournaments affects agents' effort and participation decisions. The …

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