1. Refereed Journal // 2000

    The evolution of cooperation in Prisoners Dilemma with an endogeneous learning mutant

    We consider a population initially consisting of cooperators and defectors, who are engaged in a Prisoner's Dilemma. A knowledgeable mutant is introduced who memorizes other players by experience. We derive a…

  2. Refereed Journal // 2000

    An experiment on sequential rent-seeking

    In an experiment on sequential rent-seeking, we find that the theoretically predicted first-mover advantage does not exist empirically. Rather, a second-mover advantage can be observed. Though the subgame…

  3. Refereed Journal // 2000

    Socioeconomic and demographic factors of crime in Germany: Evidence from panel data of the German states

    Our study is based on the traditional Becker-Ehrlich deterrence model, but we analyze the model in the face of currently discussed factors of crime like demographic changes, youth-unemployment and income…

  4. Refereed Journal // 2000

    The ZEW Foundation Panels and the Mannheim Enterprise Panel (MUP) of the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW)

    In this documentation about the "Mannheimer Foundation Panels" of the ZEW the identification of firm foundations and liquidations as well as difficulties occurring in this context are discussed. The ZEW…