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Climate change entails an intensification of extreme weather events that can potentially trigger socioeconomic and energy system disruptions. As we approach 1 degrees C of global warming we should start learning from historical extremes and explicitly incorporate such events in integrated climate-economy and energy systems models.
We collect a network dataset of tenured economics faculty in Austria, Germany and Switzerland. We rank the 100 institutions included with a minimum violation ranking. This ranking is positively and significantly correlated with the Times Higher Education ranking of economics institutions. According to the network ranking, individuals on average go down about 23 ranks from their doctoral institution to their employing institution. While the share of females in our dataset is only 15%, we do not observe a significant gender hiring gap (a difference in rank changes between male and female faculty). We conduct a robustness check with the Handelsblatt and the Times Higher Education ranking. According to these rankings, individuals on average go down only about two ranks. We do not observe a significant gender hiring gap using these two rankings (although the dataset underlying this analysis is small and these estimates are likely to be noisy). Finally, we discuss the limitations of the network ranking in our context.
Distances affect economic decision-making in numerous situations. The time at which we make a decision about future consumption has an impact on our consumption behavior. The spatial distance to employer, school or university impacts the place where we live and vice versa. The emotional closeness to other individuals influences our willingness to give money to them. This cumulative thesis aims to enrich the literature on the role of distance for economic decision-making. Thereby, each of my research projects sheds light on the impact of one kind of distance for efficient decision-making.
Negotiations are a way of joint decision-making and thereby a form of social conflict. By determining the concrete allocation of scarce resources, negotiations have a great impact on the value creation of companies. If companies succeed in achieving better negotiation results in the long term, they can increase their profitability. Ensuring a company's negotiation success is therefore an organizational issue of central importance. While the question of ensuring individual negotiation success has been the subject and topic of multidisciplinary research for a long time, the question of how organizations can implement and ensure continuous negotiation success remains largely unexplored. This dissertation therefore aims to investigate how companies enable their employees to consistently achieve better negotiation outcomes. It is significant that, in the corporate context, negotiators do not act as individuals but as embedded representatives of an organization, and that negotiations are not one-time events but recurring necessities for the existence of the organization instead. In organizations, those recurring processes with a similar fundamental structure are handled by routines. A planned improvement of routines is often forced by new artifacts. In this context, artifacts refer to human-created technologies with which humans interact within routines and therefore artifacts have a central influence on executing the routine. If negotiation activities in companies are represented by organizational routines, one central issue for improving companies’ negotiation performance is the artifacts’ incorporation into organizational negotiation routines that facilitate the efficient application of the insights from negotiation research. The dissertation consists of three studies that were written as research papers to examine artifacts in the organizational negotiation context. The first study focuses on the pre-negotiation stage and presents four tools to assist negotiation practitioners in efficiently preparing for negotiation. The study examines the negotiation preparation’s effectiveness and efficiency and the negotiation outcome in a case-based experiment. The second study is devoted to a closer examination of the barriers that inhibit the adoption of negotiation support systems (NSSs) as one kind of organizational negotiation artifact. The investigation is conducted using a structural equation model based on information from participating practitioners. The third study is concerned with the future of negotiation support system research. An exploratory study based on qualitative in-depth interviews with proven and published experts in the field aims to evaluate the current state of research. The general discussion of the dissertation connects, summarizes, and concludes the study results and derives implications for practice, limitations, and future research ideas.
Zu BGH vom 15.2.2022, VI ZR 937/20 (BeckRS 2022, 6623). Das System der taggenauen Bemessung des Schmerzensgeldes zeigt einen Weg auf, die Schmerzensgeldbemessung (neu) zu ordnen. Dabei handelt es sich im Ansatz um einen lohnenden Vorstoß – „hin zu mehr Rechtsgleichheit, -sicherheit und -akzeptanz“. Im Sinne eines produktiven Dialogs über methodische Fragen der Schmerzensgeldbemessung bleibt zu bemängeln, dass an Maßstäben festgehalten wird, bloß weil diese sich etabliert haben. Dies gilt auch für die Entscheidung des BGH. Der Senat setzt sich vor allem mit der Begründung der Ablehnung der taggenauen Bemessung auseinander, ohne dabei näher auf die kritischen Aspekte der herkömmlichen Bemessung einzugehen. Nach dieser Entscheidung darf wohl infrage gestellt werden, ob sich weiter mit einer derart grundlegenden Anpassung der Schmerzensgeldbemessung befasst werden wird.
IMPACT German municipalities have prepared performance budgets for over 10 years. The incorporation of performance information into the budget is, however, still work in progress. Local politicians perceive the usability of non-financial information in the budget as low and do not use such information intensively for budget composition or other purposes. German municipal budgets are usually voluminous because of their highly detailed structure and the large amount of displayed performance data which rarely informs about outcomes. Such information does not meet the needs of councillors, for example in their struggles with political opponents. Some options for improving the usability of budgetary information are presented.
In this paper we examine the relationship between the default risk of banks and sovereigns, i.e. the 'doom-loop'. Specifically, we try to assess the effectiveness of the implementation of the new recovery and resolution framework in the European Union. We use a panel with daily data on European banks and sovereigns ranging from 2012 to 2016 in order to test the effects of the Bank Recovery and Resolution Directive on the two-way feedback process. We find that there was a pronounced feedback loop between banks and sovereigns from 2012 to 2014. However, after the implementation of the European Banking Union, in 2015/2016, the magnitude of the doom-loop decreased and the spillovers became not statistically significant. Furthermore, our results suggest that the implementation of the new resolution framework is a suitable candidate to explain this finding. Overall, the results are robust across several specifications.
Technological advancements are giving rise to the fourth industrial revolution - Industry 4.0 -characterized by the mass employment of smart objects in highly reconfigurable and thoroughly connected industrialproduct-service systems. The purpose of this paper is to propose a theory-based knowledgedynamics model in the smart grid scenario that would provide a holistic view on the knowledge-based interactions among smart objects, humans, and other actors as an underlyingmechanism of value co-creation in Industry 4.0. A multi-loop and three-layer - physical, virtual, and interface - model of knowledge dynamics is developedby building on the concept of ba - an enabling space for interactions and theemergence of knowledge. The model depicts how big data analytics are just one component inunlocking the value of big data, whereas the tacit engagement of humans-in-the-loop - theirsense-making and decision-making - is needed for insights to be evoked fromanalytics reports and customer needs to be met.