We compare performance in a word based creativity task under three incentive schemes: a flat fee, a linear payment and a tournament. Furthermore, we also compare performance under two control tasks (Raven's advanced progressive matrices or a number-adding task) with the same treatments. In all...

This study is directly motivated by the results of Eckartz et al (2012). Subjects exerted suprisingly high efforts irrespectively of how they were compensated. This paper discusses a number of potential explanations and then it will focus on two of them: first, subjects might exert effort simply...

In this paper we attempt to compare theoretically and experimentally three models of strategic information transmission. In particular we focus on the models by Crawford & Sobel (1982), Lai (2010) and Ehses-Friedrich (2011). These three models differ in the information that the receiver...

We compare performance in a word based creativity task under three incentive schemes: a flat fee, a linear payment and a tournament. Furthermore, we also compare performance under two control tasks (Raven's advanced progressive matrices or a number-adding task) with the same treatments. In all...

Dieses Arbeitspapier untersucht die Möglichkeiten der Etablierung eines Recyclingsystems für NdFeB-Magnete aus Elektromotoren am Beispiel von Pedelecs. Die Ergebnisse basieren neben Literaturrecherchen auf Interviews mit Akteuren, die in den Pedelec Life-Cycle direkt oder indirekt involviert...

Rebound effects reduce the energy demand reduction from energy efficiency in-creases. Understanding the underlying mechanisms is therefore crucial. A poten-tial driver is moral licensing, a cognitive process by which individuals justify im-moral behaviour (e.g., using more and brighter lights)...

Dieser Bericht analysiert diedeutsche Öko-Innovationspolitik und macht Vorschläge für eine zukünftige Ausgestaltung. Zunächst werden die Hintergründe bezüglich der Bestimmungsgründe für Öko-Innovationen und Wettbewerbsfähigkeit skizziert und in die Öko-Innovationspolitik eingeordnet....