Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject Computer Science - Commercial Information Technology, grade: 1,3, Humboldt-University of Berlin, 50 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: The paper mainly focuses on current questionnaire generation tools on the German-speaking market. Additionally, an introduction to internet-based research is given in Part One of this paper that will explain the differences between online surveys and online experiments and the choices of when and when not to conduct an experiment on the internet. It will also shortly introduce advantages...

Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject Economics - History, grade: 1,7, Humboldt-University of Berlin, 6 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: The paper will give a general overview on Douglass C. North's theoretical work during the last twenty years on economic history as well as on new institutions economics and institutional change. While the paper is more concerned on how North approaches the origin and development of the state via property rights it also will take his theory of institutional change and the way he emphasizes economies of scale and transaction...

Seminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject Economics - Finance, grade: 1,3, Humboldt-University of Berlin, 13 entries in the bibliography, language: English, comment: The paper discusses the evolution and reform of the German public pension plan in respect to its history, theoretical approaches to explain the choice and evolution of pension plans and takes current issues in account in order to evaluate the suggestions made and to show what political determinants influence future reform., abstract: The paper discusses the evolution and reform of the German public pension plan in respect...

Master Thesis aus dem Jahr 2007 im Fachbereich Wirtschaft - Volkswirtschaftslehre, Note: 1,3, Humboldt-Universit t zu Berlin, 90 Eintragungen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Englisch, Abstract: This paper examines actual entry and exit dynamics in the German airline market in light of the European liberalization process. For this purpose, flight schedules data was used to derive entry and exit statistics for a set of chosen inner-German routes over a period of thirteen years. Data was analysed in cross-sectional and longitudinal manner while identifying different entry waves and examining...

Essay aus dem Jahr 2005 im Fachbereich BWL - Recht, Note: 1,7, Higher School of Economics Moscow, Russia, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Legal and economical interpretations of contract, contract law and contract theory, asymmetric information, adverse selection and moral hazard. Paper explains negative effects of adverse selection and moral hazard for the case of transaction costs and incomplete contracts and describes incentives to avoid adverse selection and moral hazard, such as signaling and deductibles as well as indemnity contracts and valued contracts.