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161: Aggregative Contests and Ex-post Heterogeneity: the Case of the UEFA Champions League

Martin Grossmann, Andreas Hefti and Markus Lang

160: A Theoretical Analysis of the Influence of Money Injections on Risk Taking in Football Clubs

Egon Franck and Markus Lang

159: The Temptation of Social Ties: When Interpersonal Network Transactions Hurt Firm Performance

Leif Brandes, Marc Brechot and Egon Franck

157: Advertising Pricing Models in Media Markets: Lump-Sum versus Per-Consumer Charges

Helmut Dietl, Markus Lang and Panlang Lin

156: Ist es an der Zeit, die Aktionärsrechte zu stärken?

Egon Franck

155: Zu den offenen Fragen des Board Primacy Konzeptes in der oekonomischen Theorie der Corporate Governance

Egon Franck

154: Betting scandals and attenuated property rights - How betting related match fixing can be prevented in future

Helmut Dietl and Christian Weingaertner

153: The Effects of Introducing Advertising in Pay TV: A Model of Asymmetric Competition between Pay TV and Free TV

Helmut Dietl, Markus Lang and Panlang Lin

152: Determinants of the Optimal Network Configuration and the Implications for Coordination

Patricia Deflorin, Helmut Dietl, Markus Lang and Eric Lucas

151: On the Release of Players to National Teams

Oliver Guertler, Markus Lang and Tim Pawlowski

150: Why Taxing Executives' Bonuses Can Foster Risk-Taking Behavior

Martin Grossmann, Markus Lang and Helmut Dietl

149: Evolutionarily Stable Strategies in Sports Contests

Martin Grossmann

148: Endogenous Liquidity Constraints in a Dynamic Contest

Martin Grossmann

147: When Does Regulation Bite? Co-Determination and the Nature of Employment Relations

Uschi Backes-Gellner, Jens Mohrenweiser and Kerstin Pull

146: The effect of a sports institutionÕs legal structure on sponsorship income: The case of amateur equestrian sports in Germany

Christoph Breuer, Helmut Dietl, Christian Weingaertner and Pamela Wicker

145: Impact of VAT Exemptions in the Postal Sector on Competition and Welfare

Helmut Dietl, Christian Jaag, Markus Lang, Martin Lutzenberger and Urs Trinkner

144: International Sports League Comparisons

Helmut Dietl, Rodney Fort and Markus Lang

143: Effect of Workforce Age on Quantitative and Qualitative Organizational Performance: Conceptual Framework and Case Study Evidence

Uschi Backes-Gellner, Martin Schneider and Stephan Veen

142: Economic Crises and the Elderly

Uschi Backes-Gellner and Martin Schneider

141: The Effect of Professional Football Clubs' Legal Structure on Sponsoring Revenue

Helmut Dietl and Christian Weingaertner

140: Incentive Effects of Bonus Taxes in a Principal-Agent Model

Helmut Dietl, Martin Grossmann, Markus Lang and Simon Wey

138: Shared Ownership versus Third-Party Ownership

Stephan Nuesch and Egon Franck

137: Besonderheiten des Sports ‐ Was rechtfertigt eine "eigene Ökonomik"?

Helmut Dietl

136: Gehaltsobergrenzen und Luxussteuern: Erkenntnisse aus dem professionellen Mannschaftssport

Helmut Dietl, Tobias Duschl and Markus Lang

134: Social Preferences or Personal Career Concerns? Field Evidence on Positive and Negative Reciprocity in the Workplace

Leif Brandes and Egon Franck

133: Competition and Welfare Effects of VAT Exemptions

Helmut Dietl, Christian Jaag, Markus Lang and Urs Trinkner

132: Who Gives More? A Comparative Perspective of Philanthropic Giving through Foundations within the UEFA and the NFL

Helmut Dietl, Egon Franck and Julia Hillebrandt

131: Competition Effects in a Liberalized Railway Market

Markus Lang, Marc Laperrouza and Matthias Finger

130: Composition and Performance of Research Training Groups

Birgit Unger, Kerstin Pull and Uschi Backes-Gellner

129: Executive Pay Regulation: What Regulators, Shareholders, and Managers Can Learn from Major Sports Leagues

Helmut Dietl, Tobias Duschl and Markus Lang

128: The Sugar Daddy's Game: How Wealthy Investors Change Competition in Professional Team Sports

Martin Grossmann, Markus Lang and Philipp Theiler

127: The Lead Factory Concept: Benefiting from an Efficient Knowledge Transfer

Patricia Deflorin, Helmut Dietl, Markus Lang and Maike Scherrer-Rathje

126: The Group Size and Loyalty of Football Fans: A Two-Stage Estimation Procedure to Compare Customer Potential Across Teams

Leif Brandes, Egon Franck and Philipp Theiler

125: Outsourcing and its Impact on Manufacturing Flexibility: Contingencies Matter

Maike Scherrer-Rathje, Patricia Deflorin and Gopesh Anand

124: „Zombierennen“ und „Patenonkel“ - Warum deutsche Fussballklubs in der Champions League den Kürzeren ziehen

Egon Franck

123: Erfolgsstrategien im Plattformwettbewerb

Helmut Dietl

122: Organizational Differences between U.S. Major Leagues and European Leagues: Implications for Salary Caps

Helmut Dietl, Egon Franck, Markus Lang and Alexander Rathke

121: The Role of Negative Intra-Side Externalities in Two-Sided Markets

Helmut Dietl, Markus Lang and Panlang Lin

120: The Validity of Models on the Information Content of Trades

Leif Brandes, Egon Franck and Erwin Verbeek

119: The Organization of Professional Sports Leagues: A Comparison of European and North-American Leagues from the Perspective of Platform Organization

Helmut Dietl and Tobias Duschl

118: Competitive Balance and Revenue Sharing in Sports Leagues with Utility-Maximizing Teams

Helmut Dietl, Martin Grossmann and Markus Lang

117: Transitional Dynamics in a Tullock Contest with a General Cost Function

Martin Grossmann, Markus Lang and Helmut Dietl

116: Works Councils and Learning: On the Dynamic Dimension of Codetermination

Uwe Jirjahn, Jens Mohrenweiser and Uschi Backes-Gellner

115: Should the Catholic Church abolish the rule of Celibacy?

Men-Andri Benz, Reto Foellmi, Egon Franck and Urs Meister

114: A Contest Model of a Professional Sports League with Two-Sided Markets

Helmut Dietl, Tobias Duschl, Egon Franck and Markus Lang

113: Specific Human Capital as a Source of Superior Team Performance

Egon Franck, Stephan Nuesch and Jan Pieper

112: Normality Bias in the Field: Evidence from Panel Data

Stephan Nuesch and Hartmut Haas

111: International Manufacturing Strategy Survey (IMSS): Trends and Challenges of Swiss Manufacturing Companies

Patricia Deflorin and Maike Scherrer-Rathje

110: Aligning manufacturing strategy content with heterogeneous requirements

Patricia Deflorin and Maike Scherrer-Rathje

109: Developing and Sustaining Capabilities – A Look into the Black Box

Patricia Deflorin and Peter Ward