We develop a general framework to study contests, containing the well-known models of Tullock (1980) and Lazear & Rosen (1981) as special cases. The contest outcome depends on players' effort and skill, the latter being subject to symmetric uncertainty. The model is tractable, because a...

We develop a general framework to study contests, containing the well-known models of Tullock (1980) and Lazear & Rosen (1981) as special cases. The contest outcome depends on players' effort and skill, the latter being subject to symmetric uncertainty. The model is tractable, because a...

Since the equity premium as well as the risk-free rate puzzle question the concepts central to financial and economic modeling, we apply behavioral decision theory to asset pricing in view of solving these puzzles. U.S. stock market data for the period 1960-2003 and German stock market data for...

Gegenstand der deskriptiven Entscheidungstheorie ist die Erklärung realen menschlichenEntscheidungsverhaltens. Spätestens seit den Arbeiten von Allais (1953) war dabei bekannt,dass das auf die Maximierung des erwarteten Nutzens von Entscheidern abstellende Bernoul-li-Prinzip wohl als Postulat...