Einen Kern der Energiewende bildet der Ausbau Erneuerbarer Energien in Deutschland. Besonders im Strombereich greifen dabei EU-, Bundes-, Landes- und Kommunalpolitik sowie bürgerschaftliches Engagement eng ineinander, allerdings nicht immer reibungslos. Ziel dieser Studie ist es, bestimmte...

This dissertation is a collection of three essays dealing with selected problems of the Euro Area during its most recent crisis. It applies empirical, theoretical, and institutional analyses to gain new insights into many of its financial aspects. The first essay offers an alternative...

In most modern economies scientific and technological research activities are conducted in two distinct organizational modes: commercially oriented R&D based upon proprietary information, and noncommercial “open science.” When taken together and kept in proper balance, these form a...

The standard view of patents emphasizes their dynamic efficiency. It considers that, by providing firms with incentives to invest in R&D and to disclose their knowledge, patents encourage innovation and increase social welfare in the long run. Yet, a growing body of literature opposes this view...

We examine the effectiveness of three democratically chosen rules that alleviate the coordination and cooperation problems inherent in collectively managed common-pool resources. In particular we investigate how rule effectiveness and rule compliance depends on the prevailing local norms and...

Die Studie erforscht den Einfluss sozialer Strukturen und sozialer Netzwerke auf die Entscheidungsfindung eines fragmentierten, heterogenen Gremiums, das im Senegal in einer agro-pastoralen Dörfergemeinschaft für die Förderung und Verteilung der Common-Pool Ressource Wasser zuständig ist....

“Anti-commons” is seen as a property regime in which multiple owners hold ef-fective rights of exclusion in a scarce resource. The coexistence of multiple exclusion rights creates conditions for suboptimal use of the common resource. The anti-commons construction offers an analytical tool...