In many cases, politicians and government officials are forbidden by law to accept monetary donations from interest groups or other outside parties as these monetary transfers are thought to cause social inefficiencies. The empirical literature supports this view as it finds a negative link...

When should principals dealing with a common agent share their individual performance measures about the agent's unobservable effort for producing a public good? In a model with two principals who offer linear incentive schemes, we show that information sharing always increases total expected...

In this paper, we analyze the equilibrium incentive schemes offered to an agent by two principals who can only observe correlated noisy signals of the one-dimensional action taken by the agent. We look at both cases when the two principals can or cannot cooperate in setting the terms of their...

"Der Autor geht davon aus, daß die gegenwärtige liberalkonservative Politik der privatwirtschaftlichen Wachstumsförderung scheitern wird und eine aufgrund dessen sich etablierende neue Reformkoalition zu einer Politik einschneidender mehrdimensionaler Arbeitszeitverkürzung übergehen wird: -...

The paper summarizes the crucial concerns of the author's two major book contributions (see note above) to peace research and peace policy. On the basis of some hypotheses about militarism as a means of societal rule, the economic role of arma ment-expenditures, particularly in the Federal Re...

"Der Autor geht davon aus, daß die gegenwärtige liberalkonservative Politik der privatwirtschaftlichen Wachstumsförderung scheitern wird und eine aufgrund dessen sich etablierende neue Reformkoalition zu einer Politik einschneidender mehrdimensionaler Arbeitszeitverkürzung übergehen wird: -...