Dem Plan des Bundesministeriums für Bildung und Forschung bis zu zehn "Spitzenuniversitäten" zu fördern, um den Wissenschaftsstandort Deutschland nachhaltig zu stärken, steht Prof. Dr. Gerd Grözinger, Universität Flensburg, eher skeptisch gegenüber. Für ihn wäre es wichtiger, die...

Rank-order tournaments are usually modeled simultaneously. However, real tournaments are often sequential. We show that agents’ strategic behavior in sequential-move tournaments significantly differ from the one in simultaneous-move tournaments: In a sequential-move tournament with...

We introduce a concept of emotions that emerge when workers compare their own performance with a given standard or with the performances of co-workers. Assuming heterogeneity among the workers the interplay of emotions and incentives is analyzed by focusing on three incentive schemes that are...