The launch of a public project requires support from enough members of a group. Members (players) are differently important for the project and have different cost/benefit relations. There are players who profit and players who suffer from the launch of the project. Examples are the Kyoto...

"Empirical studies indicate that the gender wage gap is lower under collectively negotiated contracts than in firms not bound by such contracts. It is, however, a largely open question, how the organization and the process of collective negotiations affect the gender wage gap. In the period from...

Die deutsche Volkswirtschaft befindet sich weiterhin in der Stagnation. Das Bruttoinlandsprodukt (BIP) ist in den vergangenen fünf Jahren real insgesamt lediglich um 0,1 % gewachsen. Das deutsche Produktionspotenzial liegt um mehr als 5 % unter dem Wert, der im Jahr 2019 für das Jahr 2024...

Theories about unique equilibrium selection are often rejected in experimental investigations. We drop the idea of selecting a single prominent equilibrium but suggest the coexistence of different beliefs about "appropriate" equilibrium or non-equilibrium play. Our main selection criterion is...