The current system of fiscal equalisation mainly allocates revenues from federal taxes to the community based on the population size indicator. This method does not sufficiently take into account the special charges that fall upon the Länder and municipalities as a result of their tasks....

"Es muß damit gerechnet werden, daß aus Gründen, die vornehmlich mit anhaltender Wachstumsschwäche einerseits, technologischer Arbeitslosigkeit andererseits zusammenhängen, die die Wirtschaft der Bundesrepublik Deutschland kennzeichnende Beschäftigungskrise andauern wird. Drei Antworten...

A real-effort experiment is investigated in which supervisors have to rate the performance of individual workers who in turn receive a bonus payment based on these ratings. We compare a baseline treatment in which supervisors are not restricted in their rating behavior to a forced distribution...

A real effort experiment is investigated in which supervisors have to rate the performance of individual workers who in turn receive a bonus payment based on these ratings. We compare a baseline treatment in which supervisors were not restricted in their rating behavior to a forced distribution...

We empirically investigate if tournaments between heterogeneous contestants are less intense. To test our hypotheses we use professional sports data from the TOYOTA Handball-Bundesliga, the major handball league in Germany. Using either differences in betting odds or rankings to measure ability...

"Es muß damit gerechnet werden, daß aus Gründen, die vornehmlich mit anhaltender Wachstumsschwäche einerseits, technologischer Arbeitslosigkeit andererseits zusammenhängen, die die Wirtschaft der Bundesrepublik Deutschland kennzeichnende Beschäftigungskrise andauern wird. Drei Antworten...

We empirically investigate the impact of incentive scheme structure on the degree of cooperation in firms using a unique and representative data set. Combining employee survey data with detailed firm level information on the relative importance of individual, team, and company performance for...

This paper investigates the effects of managerial incentives on favoritism in promotion decisions. First, we theoretically show that favoritism leads to a lower quality of promotion decisions and in turn lower efforts. But the effect can be mitigated by pay-for-performance incentives for...

Die gegenwärtige Lage der Weltwirtschaft ist von enormen Einkommensunterschieden zwischen reichen und armen Ländern geprägt. Entwicklungsunterschiede dieser Art gibt es erst seit der Epoche des modernen wirtschaftlichen Wachstums (Kuznets). Daher steht die Frage zur Beantwortung an, warum...

The (socio-)psychological concepts of individual aspiration for con- formity and consistency are integrated into the rational-choice frame- work. By using this integrative approach it is shown that after a shock the aspiration for conformity results in an equilibrium which deviates from the homo...