Da experimentelle Versuchsanordnungen im Vergleich zu anderen Datenerhebungsverfahren Kausalitäten zwischen Untersuchungsvariablen am strengsten prüfen und zeitgleich validere Ergebnisse erzielen, steigt die Bedeutung von experimentellen Untersuchungen in der...

Este estudio presenta evidencia empírica sobre los determinantes de la adopción de certificaciones internacionales de calidad (ISO) y sus efectos sobre el desempeño de las empresas argentinas en los años 2006 y 2010. Los resultados indican que las firmas exportadoras, extranjeras y de mayor...

In Deutschland ist das Interesse an (neuen) Risikomanagementinstrumenten für die Landwirtschaft in letzter Zeit stark gestiegen. Vor diesem Hintergrund erfolgt in diesem Working Paper eine systematische Zusammenstellung und Bewertung ausgewählter Instrumente zum Risikomanagement in der...

The financing of public infrastructure investment through public-private partnerships faces daunting challenges related to the success of implementation of public infrastructure investment. There are multi-dimensional competing factors which inhibit the short and long-term implementation of...

Loan loss reserves make up an essential part of a bank's soundness and more generally its viability. An under-provisioned reserve account implies that capital ratios may overstate a bank's ability to absorb future losses. For this reason, both supervisory authorities and investors regularly...

Da experimentelle Versuchsanordnungen im Vergleich zu anderen Datenerhebungsverfahren Kausalitäten zwischen Untersuchungsvariablen am strengsten prüfen und zeitgleich validere Ergebnisse erzielen, steigt die Bedeutung von experimentellen Untersuchungen in der...

Once with the Romania's adherence to the European Union, assuming some obligations and initiatives were imposed, from a national level to a local and a county level. Adherency to the European Union, made Romania assume its politics regarding the environment field and elaborate several plans of...

This paper studies the effects of job creation tax credits (JCTCs) enacted by U.S. states between 1990 and 2007 to gain insights about fiscal foresight (alterations of current behavior by forwardlooking agents in anticipation of future policy changes). Nearly half of the states adopted JCTCs...

We come close to characterizing the class of social choice correspondences that are implementable in rationalizable strategies. We identify a new condition, which we call set-monotonicity, and show that it is necessary and almost sufficient for rationalizable implementation. Set-monotonicity is...

Regional governments' discretion in allocating structural funds is mainly limited by the competences of the Commission to control implementation and fiscal activities of decentralized governments. In this paper, we analyse implementation of ERDF funds in Eastern Germany in the financial...

While sustainability issues increasingly gain importance for new product design, they also further complicate the NPD process. In many cases it is hard to exactly measure the socio-environmental impact of new products, and sustainability targets may conflict with other ones. Innovators can aim...

Fiscal decentralization and intergovernmental fiscal relations reform have become nearly ubiquitous in developing countries. Performance, however, has often been disappointing in terms of both policy formulation and outcomes. The dynamics underlying these results have been poorly researched....

In this paper we conduct a laboratory experiment to test the extent to which Moore and Repullo's subgame perfect implementation mechanism induces truth-telling in practice, both in a setting with perfect information and in a setting where buyers and sellers face a small amount of uncertainty...

In this paper we conduct a laboratory experiment to test the extent to which Moore and Repullo’s subgame perfect implementation mechanism induces truth-telling in practice, both in a setting with perfect information and in a setting where buyers and sellers face a small amount of uncertainty...

We determine the core characteristics of a climate coalition's optimal policies in a dynamic two country directed technical change framework. Unilateral policies alter the structure of production and thereby innovation incentives across countries. Whenever feasible, optimal policies implement...