Sectoral heterogeneity is crucial to address several economic questions. This paper provides a detailed mapping of sectoral production possibility frontiers, using different nesting structures and levels of aggregation (primary, secondary, tertiary activities and energy-intensive firms)....

This paper presents the results of an experiment on mutual versus common knowl- edge of advice in a two-player weak-link game with random matching. Our experimen- tal subjects play in pairs for thirteen rounds. After a brief learning phase common to all treatments, we vary the knowledge levels...

In the real world, when people play games, they often receive advice from those that have played it before them. Such advice can facilitate the creation of a convention of behavior. This paper studies the impact of advice on the behavior subjects who engage in a non-overlapping generational...

Der Beitrag setzt sich mit Walther Müller-Jentschs Konzept von Konfliktpartnerschaft und mit Wolfgang Streecks Kritik an diesem Konzept auseinander. Dabei wird zwischen einem historisch spezifischen und einem allgemeinen Begriff von Konfliktpartnerschaft unterschieden. Es wird – gegen...