Am 3. Juli 2009 verabschiedete die Bundesregierung das Bad-Bank-Gesetz mit dem Ziel, die Bankbilanzen zu entlasten und eine drohende Kreditklemme abzuwenden Für Falko Fecht European Business School, Oestrich-Winkel, und Hans Peter Grüner, Universität Mannheim, Ist dieses Modell nicht...

We show how decentralized individual investments can efficiently allocate capital to innovating firms via equity crowdfunding. We develop a model where consumers have privately known consumption preferences and may act as investors. Consumers identify worthwhile investments based on their own...

In democracies, an absolute majority of the population may choose policies that are harmful to the rest of the population. A purpose of super-majority rules is to prevent this from happening. We study whether individuals optimally choose sub- or super-majority rules when the rights of minorities...

Millionen Menschen in Deutschland sind von Altersarmut bedroht. Und das Risiko, von Altersarmut betroffen zu sein, wird in den nächsten Jahren vor allem durch den bevorstehenden Eintritt der Babyboomer-Generation in den Ruhestand noch steigen. Die umlagefinanzierte gesetzliche...

In this paper I show that central bank flexibility may not be desirable when it encourages trade unions to behave more aggressively. The argument is based on a model where risk averse trade unions interact with a central bank. A flexible central bank stabilizes economic shocks and reduces output...

Some committees convene behind closed doors while others publicly discuss issues and make their decisions. This paper studies the role of open and closed committee decision making in presence of external influence. We show that restricting the information of interest groups may reduce the bias...

Recent theoretical research has studied extensively the link between wage setting and monetary policymaking in unionized economies. This paper addresses the question of the role of monetary uncertainty from both an empirical and theoretical point of view. Our analysis is based on a simple model...

In der deutschen Volkswirtschaftslehre wird ein Streit zwischen Anhängern der Ordnungspolitik und Anhängern der formal-theoretischen Ökonomik ausgetragen. Die Ordnungspolitiker setzen dabei vor allem auf Regeln und Institutionen, die der Marktwirtschaft einen Rahmen geben sollen. Den...