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134: Private Provision of a Complementary Public Good

Richard Schmidtke

133: Two-Sided Markets with Pecuniary and Participation Externalities

Richard Schmidtke

132: Umbrella Branding and the Provision of Quality

Hendrik Hakenes and Martin Peitz

131: Observable Reputation Trading

Hendrik Hakenes and Martin Peitz

130: Failure to Delegate and Loss of Control

Tymofiy Mylovanov

129: Veto-Based Delegation

Tymofiy Mylovanov

128: A Characterization of the Conditions for Optimal Auction with Resale

Tymofiy Mylovanov and Thomas Troger

127: First-mover disadvantage

Tymofiy Mylovanov

126: When is FDI a Capital Flow?

Dalia Marin and Monika Schnitzer

125: Contests with multi-tasking

Derek J. Clark and Kai A. Konrad

124: Business Groups in Emerging Markets - Financial Control and Sequential Investment

Christa Hainz

123: Fragmented property rights and R&D competition

Derek J. Clark and Kai A. Konrad

122: Multi-battle contests

Kai A. Konrad and Dan Kovenock

121: Equilibrium and Efficiency in the Tug-of-War

Kai A. Konrad and Dan Kovenock

120: Contests with Investment

Johannes Münster

119: Rents, dissipation and lost treasures: comment

Johannes Münster

118: Selection Tournaments, Sabotage, and Participation

Johannes Münster

117: “Ineffective” competition: a puzzle?

Andrej V. Ivanov and Florian Mueller

116: All Nash Equilibria of the Multi-Unit Vickrey Auction

Andreas Blume, Paul Heidhues, Jonathan Lafky, Johannes Münster and Meixia Zhang

115: The Intensity of Incentives in Firms and Markets: Moral Hazard with Envious Agents

Björn Bartling and Ferdinand von Siemens

114: The Effect of Reputation on Selling Prices in Auctions

Oliver Gürtler and Christian Grund

113: On Delegation under Relational Contracts

Oliver Gürtler

112: Job Promotion Tournaments and Imperfect Recall

Oliver Gürtler

111: The Importance of Equity Finance for R&D Activity – Are There Differences Between Young and Old Companies?

Elisabeth Müller and Volker Zimmermann (Elisabeth Mueller)

110: Implicit Contracts: Two Different Approaches

Oliver Gürtler

109: Power Inside the Firm and the Market: A General Equilibrium Approach

Dalia Marin and Thierry A. Verdier

108: How to Allocate R&D (and Other) Subsidies: An Experimentally Tested Policy Recommendation

Thomas Giebe, Tim Grebe and Elmar Wolfstetter

107: The Threat of Capital Drain: A Rationale for Public Banks?

Hendrik Hakenes and Isabel Schnabel

106: Tortious Acts Affecting Markets

Urs Schweizer

105: How Licensing Resolves Hold-Up: Evidence from a Dynamic Panel Data Model with Unobserved Heterogeneity

Ralph Bernd Siebert and Georg von Graevenitz

104: Incentives for separation and incentives for public good provision

Klaas Staal

103: Optimal Ownership Structures in the Presence of Investment Signals

Oliver Gürtler

102: Conditional Allocation of Control Rights in Venture Capital Finance

Georg Gebhardt and Klaus M. Schmidt

101: Performance Pay and Risk Aversion

Christian Grund and Dirk Sliwka

100: Contractual Incentive Provision and Commitment in Rent-Seeking Contests

Oliver Gürtler

99: Should You Allow Your Agent to Become Your Competitor? - On Non-Compete Agreements in Employment Contracts

Matthias Kräkel and Dirk Sliwka

98: Organization of Multinational Activities and Ownership Structure

Christian Mugele and Monika Schnitzer

97: Optimal Income Taxation and Public Good Provision in a Two-Class Economy

Felix Bierbrauer

96: License Auctions with Royalty Contracts for Losers

Thomas Giebe and Elmar Wolfstetter

95: Foreign Banks in Eastern Europe: Mode of Entry and Effects on Bank Interest Rates

Sophie Angelique Claeys and Christa Hainz

94: Conflict and the Social Contract

Helmut Bester and Karl Wärneryd

93: Procurement of Goods and Services – Scope and Government

Elmar Wolfstetter

92: Price formation in a sequential selling mechanism

Radosveta Ivanova-Stenzel and Sabine Kröger

91: Courtesy and Idleness: Gender Differences in Team Work and Team Competition

Radosveta Ivanova-Stenzel and Dorothea Kübler

90: Corruption in Procurement Auctions

Yvan Lengwiler and Elmar Wolfstetter

89: Research Joint Ventures, Licensing, and Industrial Policy

Cuihong Fan and Elmar Wolfstetter

88: Bank Size and Risk-Taking under Basel II

Hendrik Hakenes and Isabel Schnabel

87: Information, Coordination, and the Industrialization of Countries

Florian Englmaier and Markus Reisinger

86: Local Public Good Provision, Municipal Consolidation, and National Transfers

Robert Dur and Klaas Staal

85: The Theory of Assortative Matching Based on Costly Signals

Heidrun C. Hoppe, Benny Moldovanu and Aner Sela