Objectives: Preferences of both Alzheimer patients and their spouse caregivers are related to a willingness-to-pay (WTP) measure which is used to test for the presence of mutual (rather than the conventional one-way) altruism. Methods: Identical contingent valuation interviews were conducted in...

This paper analyzes the current use of incentive-fee-concepts for mutual funds in Germany. Following an empirical analysis about the relevance of these methods, the different methods of calculation and the influence of different parameters are described. Further on it explains the impacts of...

A suitable strategy for achieving sustainable development is to foster environmental innovations. Environmental innovations, however, suffer from so-called double externalities, because apart from innovation spillovers they also improve the quality of public environmental goods, which can be...

During recent crises in Europe, new heterogeneous protest movements have emerged that are difficult to label and classify. Existing studies suggest that the common denominator of these protesters is primarily the lack of political trust. Therefore, these new protest movements offer favorable...

In this paper, we present the basic ideas, the design and some key results of an ongoing research project on the transformation of the national political space in Western Europe. We start from the assumption that the current process of globalization or denationaliza-tion leads to the formation...

Die vorliegende Studie enthält eine vergleichende empirische Analyse des institutionellen Wandels in der Telekommunikation in vier westeuropäischen Ländern: Großbritannien, Frank.reich, Italien und der Bundesrepublik Deutschland. In allen diesen Ländern gerieten die institutionellen...

In Fortsetzung von MPIFG Discussion Paper 89/9 untersucht der Aufsatz zunächst die Bedingungen, unter denen korporative Akteure, Koalitionen - von Akteuren, kollektive Akteure oder sogar bloße Aggregate von Akteuren in spieltheoretischen Erklärungen empirischer Sachverhalte legitimerweise als...

Ist der Staat in der Lage, Forschung und Entwicklung in der Industrie gezielt zu beeinflussen? Kann er die technologische Wettbewerbsfähigkeit der Industrie oder die Genese technischer Risiken steuern? In der vorliegenden empirischen Untersuchung wird am Beispiel der Informationstechnik...

In this paper we analyze the 2019 EP elections from the voters' perspective. It is based on a novel post-electoral survey covering five North West European countries: Austria, Germany, France, Sweden and the UK. In particular we address the following questions: How important were the lead...

In der Corona-Krise sind weite Teile der Zivilgesellschaft zum Stillstand gekommen. Mehr staatliches Engagement für die Ehrenamtlichen ist wichtig.