Employee performance evaluations usually take place on an annual basis but quarterly, monthly, or weekly evaluations are by no means exceptional. If their outcomes determine variable pay, finding the optimal frequency of performance evaluations is far from a trivial task. This paper investigates...

Die effiziente betriebliche und konzernweite Implementierung der Percentage-of-Completion-Methode (PoC) stellt die Praxis vor einige Herausforderungen. Dies schließt die Auswahl der geeigneten Variante dieser Methode sowie die Verprobung der Überleitungsrechnung mit der Gewinn- und...

Non-monotone incentive structures, which - according to theory - are able to induce optimal behavior, are often regarded as empirically less relevant for labor relationships. We compare the performance of a theoretically optimal non-monotone contract with a monotone one under controlled...

This dissertation comprises five different stand-alone research papers that were written as part of the doctoral program in “Quantitative Economics and Finance” at the University of Konstanz within the period of January 2004 and January 2008. All of the papers deal with an empirical analysis...