Wissenschaftliche Literatur Competition

Oliver Treidler

From the Lisbon Strategy to Europe 2020 and Beyond

Rethinking the Rationale for a Common European Economic Policy

EURO-Wirtschaft – Studien zur ökonomischen Entwicklung Europas

During the last couple of years the lack of competitiveness of many European economies has been brutally exposed. This book presents a detailed analysis of the failed attempt of the European Commission to enhance competitiveness and rethinks the rationale for delegating competences to the EU.

The Lisbon Strategy, which was initiated in 2000, has failed to attain the goal of turning Europe into the most competitive and dynamic economy in the world. In 2010 the…

Andreas Graichen

Is Fairtrade Labeling Fair?

A Welfare Analysis

Schriftenreihe volkswirtschaftliche Forschungsergebnisse

The discussion about the effectiveness of fairtrade labeling in terms of economic efficiency and as a measure for alleviating poverty goes on since several years. While the fairtrade movement claims that it is necessary to pay a „fair“ price to the producers to allow them to live a decent life, free-market apologists argue that that fairtrade is not really fair but principally makes non-fairtrade producers poorer. Moreover it is stated that fairtrade is an inefficient way…

Nikos Ebel

The Regulation and Liberalization of Network-Based Industries

A Microeconomic Analysis of Network Providers‘ Investment Incentives

Schriftenreihe volkswirtschaftliche Forschungsergebnisse

Die von der Europäischen Union in den neunziger Jahren angestoßene Liberalisierung netzbasierter Industrien (Elektrizität, Gas, Schienenverkehr, Telekommunikation, etc.) birgt massive Veränderungen der Rahmenbedingungen der in diesen Industrien tätigen Unternehmen. Gerade die Forderungen der Entflechtung von integrierten Unternehmen (Unbundling) sowie der Aufbau einer Regulierung auf Grundlage von Benchmarks (Yardstick-Regulierung) prägen das neue Regulierungsparadigma.…

Joanna Krzeminska-Vamvaka

Freedom of Commercial Speech in Europe

Studien zum Völker- und Europarecht

Due to the politicisation of commercial life and the commercialisation of political life the freedom of expression enters new territories and triggers conflicts in areas to which fundamental rights considerations have been rather unusual so far. The companies participate in public debates or advertise with reference to social or environmental problems. In Germany the civil courts adopted a very strict approach to this type of advertising and held that it contravened the…

Marvin Nii Ankrah

Regionalism and Political Instability in West Africa: Developments, Challenges and Prospects

Schriften zur internationalen Politik

The study of regions is critical to our understanding of global politics. Post-colonial West Africa has for decades attracted international headlines for many bad reasons. Central among these are various acts of political instability involving military coups, civil wars, irredentists claims, circulation of small arms and weapons and the competition for natural resources. Despite some modest achievements in recent times, post independent West Africa continues to be haunted…

Dennis Heitmann

Bounded Rationality in Duopoly Games

Schriftenreihe volkswirtschaftliche Forschungsergebnisse

This study consists of four independent research papers covering different duopoly models. Chapter 1, 2 and 3 deal with bounded rational firms in a dynamic framework, whereas in chapter 4 a static model is considered. In chapter 1 the joint paper `Generalized adaptive expectations dynamics in two-stage games‘ with Herbert Dawid is introduced. The paper `Duopoly games with limited information sets‘ is presented in chapter 2. Chapter 3 deals with the joint paper with Seppo…

Markus Wiemann

Essays on the Role of Credit Ratings in Corporate Finance

Finanzmanagement

Rating agencies are important players in today’s financial markets. They have strong influence on companies’ costs of debt and investors’ decisions. However, rating agencies were and are not free of criticism. The conflict that emerges from the strong influence of credit ratings on firms, on the one hand, and the criticism against rating agencies, on the other hand, motivated this work. It consists of four articles which extend the research on credit ratings, contract…

Holger Fricke

Deutschland dezentral – Potenziale, Probleme, politische Perspektiven

Schriftenreihe volkswirtschaftliche Forschungsergebnisse

Dezentrale, wettbewerblich organisierte föderale Ordnungen, bei denen bedeutende Kompetenzen auf niedrigen institutionellen Ebenen angesiedelt sind und in denen die Gebietskörperschaften eine vergleichsweise geringe Größe aufweisen, bieten beträchtliche Vorteile. Die befürchteten Nachteile lassen sich empirisch hingegen kaum nachweisen.

Anhand von Wahlergebnissen wird in eigenen Untersuchungen gezeigt, dass es auf dezentraler Ebene und in kleinen…

Sarah Holly

Impact of Incentives and Working Conditions on Performance and Satisfaction

Personalwirtschaft

Since the first workers were engaged by organizations and, work moved beyond a sole owner, incentives, organizational structures, and their impacts on employees have been crucial topics. This subject area has continued to be of interest as work environments and work organizations continue to change; in modern times, the effects of globalization on working conditions have been remarkable. Globalization, together with cost pressures and demands for efficiency to ensure…

Bernhard Weber

Dispositional Influences on Motivation Gains of Inferior Group Members

Schriften zur Arbeits-, Betriebs- und Organisationspsychologie

In recent years, a growing number of studies have demonstrated that inferior group members sometimes exert higher efforts when working collectively compared to individual work. Prior research identified two main processes underlying these motivation gains: social comparison and social indispensability. While prior research primarily focussed on situational moderators of these processes, dispositional variables have been neglected. In order to fill this gap, this thesis…