• The second exam will be an oral exam. You have to register till Saturday, 04/19/2014. The exam will take place on Wednesday, 04/23/2014, between 02:30 p.m. - 05:30 p.m. in room 1.07 (Helmholtzstraße 18). For a fixed appointment please contact Kristijan Hromek (before Friday, 04/04/2014) or Kathrin Dengler (after Friday, 04/04/2014).
• The results of the first exam are available at the "Hochschuldiensteportal".
  
• The exam inspection will take place on Thursday, 03/06/2014, from 02:00 p.m. - 03:00 p.m. in room 1.25 (Helmholtzstraße 18).

This course is suitable for Master students only (7 LP) and will be held in English.

The course focuses on the provision of incentives in organizations. Since the interests of workers and their employers are not necessarily aligned, an important question is how firms can design compensation schemes or jobs to induce workers to act in the employer's interest. 

In particular, the course covers team work and tournamens, in which the relative performance of individuals determines their payoff. Apart from the standard assumption of completely rational and selfish agents (homo oeconomicus), we also consider the effect of non-standard preferences (e.g. envy, inequality aversion or status-concerns). 

The course consists of two parts. In the first part, students will become familiar with theoretical models and their predictions of individual behavior. Here, we also discuss applications to sports contests and political rent-seeking. In the second part of the course, we will study empirical and experimental evidence on actual behavior as well as advancements of the models. In the second part, students will present and critically discuss a paper from the large literature on economic incentives. 

We will mainly rely on journal papers that are announced during the course.

Tuesday, 14:15 - 15:45 — Helmholtzstr. 18, E60

Thursday, 14:15 - 15:45 — Helmholtzstr. 18, E60

Lecture Prof. Dr. Sandra Ludwig

Tutorials Kristijan Hromek

All course materials will be available for download at Ilias a few days before the respective lesson. The password for accessing the course at Ilias will be announced in the first lecture.