The book brings together research communities from different disciplines and countries, and offers an exchange about theoretical frameworks and practical experiences to guide research and policy "towards environmental innovation systems". The contributions selected explore new directions of...

There are many situations in which different groups make collective decisions by committee voting, with each group represented by a single person. A natural question is what voting system such a committee should use. Concepts based on voting power provide guidelines for this choice. The two most...

There are many situations in which different groups make collective decisions by committee voting, where each group is represented by a single person. Theoretical concepts suggest how the voting systems in such committees should be designed, but these abstract rules can usually not be...

Theorien der Behavioral Labor Economics weichen vom Standardmodell der Ökonomie ab und stellen insbesondere die diesem Standardmodell zugrunde liegende Annahme von rationalen und egoistischen Entscheidern – der Annahme des Homo oeconomicus – infrage. Sie unterstellen Handlungsweisen, die...

There are many situations in which different groups make collective decisions by committee voting, with each group represented by a single person. A natural question is what voting system such a committee should use. Concepts based on voting power provide guidelines for this choice. The two most...

I provide a simple two-period model comparing lump-sum taxes with proportional labor taxes. The difference to the classical optimal taxation literature is that I introduce a behavioral twist according to which people's aspirations change from one period to another as suggested by empirical...

Under full rationality a labor income tax and a corresponding employer's contribution are equivalent. Without full rationality this equivalence is no longer obvious. If people react differently to these duties this has direct impact on policy making and also has consequences for optimal taxation...