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Eberhard Feess

Frankfurt School of Finance & Management

Adickesallee 32-34

Frankfurt am Main, 60322

Germany

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Scholarly Papers (37)

1.

The German Capital Markets Model Case Act (KapMuG) - A European Role Model For Increasing the Efficiency of Capital Markets? Analysis and Suggestions for Reform

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 01 Oct 2010 Last Revised: 21 Mar 2012
Axel Halfmeier and Eberhard Feess
Leuphana Universität Lüneburg and Frankfurt School of Finance & Management
Downloads 727 (87,289)
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Shareholder mass litigation, securities litigation, KapMuG, standard of proof

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Legal Restrictions on Buyout Fees: Theory and Evidence from German Soccer

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1180
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 07 Jul 2004 Last Revised: 17 Nov 2021
Eberhard Feess, Bernd Frick and Gerd Muehlheusser
Frankfurt School of Finance & Management, University of Witten/Herdecke - Institute of Economics and Business Administration and University of Hamburg
Downloads 538 (128,762)
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Labor contracts, Bosman judgement, empirical contract theory

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Transfer Fee Regulations in European Football

IZA Discussion Paper No. 423
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 08 Feb 2002 Last Revised: 17 Nov 2021
Gerd Muehlheusser and Eberhard Feess
University of Hamburg and Frankfurt School of Finance & Management
Downloads 535 (129,368)
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investment incentives, breach of contract, transfer fees, Bosman judgement, Labor contracts, general skills, externalities

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Corporate Leniency Programs in the EU and the USA

Number of pages: 21 Posted: 29 Apr 2003
Markus Walzl and Eberhard Feess
RWTH Aachen University - Chair for Economics (Microeconomics) and Frankfurt School of Finance & Management
Downloads 493 (143,016)
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self-reporting, optimal law enforcement, criminal teams, leniency programs

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Competition, Bonuses, and Risk-Taking in the Banking Industry

Number of pages: 48 Posted: 09 Oct 2010 Last Revised: 30 Sep 2011
Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, Frankfurt School of Finance & Management and Berlin School of Economics and Law
Downloads 482 (146,941)
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Bonuses, excessive risk, screening, competition

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The Basel Accord and the Value of Bank Differentiation

CFS Working Paper No. 2004/25, AFA 2008 New Orleans Meetings Paper
Number of pages: 68 Posted: 31 Dec 2004 Last Revised: 02 Jun 2013
Eberhard Feess and Ulrich Hege
Frankfurt School of Finance & Management and Toulouse School of Economics
Downloads 451 (159,517)
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bank capital regulation, bank failure, risk-taking, Basel Accord, internal ratings.

7.

Regulating Product Return Policies: The Trade-off between Efficiency and Distribution

52 The Journal of Legal Studies 137-191 (2023)
Number of pages: 63 Posted: 19 Dec 2018 Last Revised: 20 May 2023
Samuel Becher, Eberhard Feess and Roee Sarel
City University of Hong Kong (CityU), Frankfurt School of Finance & Management and University of Hamburg - Institute of Law and Economics
Downloads 279 (272,209)

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product returns, return policy, consumer protection, consumer uncertainty, cancellations, withdrawals

8.

Environmental Liability Under Uncertain Causation

Number of pages: 29 Posted: 06 Sep 2007
Frankfurt School of Finance & Management, University of Hamburg and Portsmouth Business School
Downloads 264 (288,370)
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environmental liability, uncertainty over causation, standard of proof, threshold probabilities

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Academic Copyright in the Publishing Game: A Contest Perspective

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 29 Mar 2011 Last Revised: 25 May 2014
Eberhard Feess and Marc Scheufen
Frankfurt School of Finance & Management and Ruhr University Bochum
Downloads 263 (289,513)
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Open Access, Copyright, Economics of Science, Publishing Game, Tullock Contest

10.

Do Moral Transgressions Lead to Pro-Social Effort? A Real-Effort Experiment

Number of pages: 34 Posted: 13 Aug 2018 Last Revised: 07 Jul 2020
Eberhard Feess and Roee Sarel
Frankfurt School of Finance & Management and University of Hamburg - Institute of Law and Economics
Downloads 247 (308,710)

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Moral licensing, conscience accounting, licensing effect, stable preferences, real effort

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Patent Licensing and Price Discrimination

Number of pages: 13 Posted: 10 Jan 2006
Sandro Gleave and Eberhard Feess
Federal Cartel Office and Frankfurt School of Finance & Management
Downloads 237 (321,897)

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Patent licensing, Price discrimination, Endogenous valuation

12.

Contracts as Rent Seeking Devices: Evidence from German Soccer

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3834
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 25 Nov 2008 Last Revised: 17 Nov 2021
Eberhard Feess, Michael Gerfin and Gerd Muehlheusser
Frankfurt School of Finance & Management, University of Bern and University of Hamburg
Downloads 221 (345,205)
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breach of contract, strategic contracting, rent seeking, empirical contract theory, sports economics, long-term contracts

13.

Corruption and Self-Reporting in Optimal Law Enforcement

Aachen Micro Working Paper No. 5
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 30 Nov 2001
Markus Walzl and Eberhard Feess
RWTH Aachen University - Chair for Economics (Microeconomics) and Frankfurt School of Finance & Management
Downloads 205 (373,348)

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self-reporting, optimal law enforcement, corruption

14.

Judicial Effort and the Appeal System: Theory and Experiment

Number of pages: 64 Posted: 27 Sep 2017 Last Revised: 30 Sep 2019
Eberhard Feess and Roee Sarel
Frankfurt School of Finance & Management and University of Hamburg - Institute of Law and Economics
Downloads 202 (376,944)
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Judges, Appeals, Effort, Experimental Law and Economics

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Self-Reporting in Optimal Law Enforcement When There are Criminal Teams

Aachen Micro Working Paper 02/02
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 09 Apr 2002
Markus Walzl and Eberhard Feess
RWTH Aachen University - Chair for Economics (Microeconomics) and Frankfurt School of Finance & Management
Downloads 186 (409,459)
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self-reporting, optimal law enforcement, crime, criminal teams, corruption, leniency programs

16.

Should Principals Reveal Their Private Information?

Aachen Micro Working Paper No. 4/01
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 30 Nov 2001
Markus Walzl, Eberhard Feess and Michael Schieble
RWTH Aachen University - Chair for Economics (Microeconomics), Frankfurt School of Finance & Management and Bain & Company - Munich Office
Downloads 177 (426,635)

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information revelation, hidden action, limited liability, informed principal

17.

Reporter's Privilege and Incentives to Leak

Number of pages: 21 Posted: 14 Mar 2007 Last Revised: 07 Oct 2008
Ido Baum, Eberhard Feess and Ansgar Wohlschlegel
Haim Striks Faculty of Law - College of Management, Frankfurt School of Finance & Management and Portsmouth Business School
Downloads 173 (435,504)

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Whistle-blowing, reporter's privilege, burden of proof, errors in court

18.

All-Unit Discounts and the Problem of Surplus Division

Number of pages: 19 Posted: 16 Dec 2007 Last Revised: 20 Feb 2010
Eberhard Feess and Ansgar Wohlschlegel
Frankfurt School of Finance & Management and Portsmouth Business School
Downloads 162 (461,984)

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Discounts, Abuse of Market Dominance, Foreclosure, Rent Shifting, Exclusive Dealing.

19.

Under-Delegation in Case of Pure Moral Hazard: Evidence from the Laboratory

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 11 Jul 2014
Eberhard Feess, Oliver Lorz and Markus Schramm
Frankfurt School of Finance & Management, RWTH Aachen University and RWTH Aachen University
Downloads 150 (494,203)
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Moral hazard, gender, control premium, delegation, principal-agent, experiment, real-effort

20.

International Technology Transfers and Competition

Number of pages: 23 Posted: 26 Nov 2006
Eberhard Feess, Michael Hoeck and Oliver Lorz
Frankfurt School of Finance & Management, Proyecta Ventures GmbH and RWTH Aachen University
Downloads 148 (500,001)
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technology licensing, international technology transfers, oligopoly

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Why Higher Price Sensitivity of Consumers May Increase Average Prices: An Analysis of the European Electricity Market

FCN Working Paper No. 16/2010
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 19 Dec 2010
Tobias Paulun, Eberhard Feess and Reinhard Madlener
RWTH Aachen University - Institute of Power Systems and Power Economics, Frankfurt School of Finance & Management and RWTH Aachen University
Downloads 147 (502,974)
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Electricity Market, Price Sensitivity, Heterogenous Oligopoly, Price Competition, Capacity Constraints

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When Bidding More is Not Enough: All-Pay Auctions with Handicaps

Bonn Econ. Discussion Paper No. 14/2002
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 21 Aug 2002
Markus Walzl, Eberhard Feess and Gerd Muehlheusser
RWTH Aachen University - Chair for Economics (Microeconomics), Frankfurt School of Finance & Management and University of Hamburg
Downloads 145 (508,926)

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All-pay auction, contest, asymmetric allocation rule, rent-seeking, asymmetric information

23.

The Impact of Fine Size and Uncertainty on Punishment and Deterrence: Evidence from the Laboratory

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 11 Jul 2014
Eberhard Feess, Markus Schramm and Ansgar Wohlschlegel
Frankfurt School of Finance & Management, RWTH Aachen University and Portsmouth Business School
Downloads 142 (518,102)
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Deterrence, fine size, type-I and type-II error, experiment

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Screening in Courts: On the Joint Use of Negligence and Causation Standards

Number of pages: 25 Posted: 13 Dec 2007 Last Revised: 02 Sep 2008
Frankfurt School of Finance & Management, University of Hamburg and Portsmouth Business School
Downloads 140 (524,371)

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liability rules, uncertainty over causation, negligence, threshold probabilities, screening

25.

Mandatory Deferral of Banker Compensation and Misallocation of Risky Projects

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 29 Jul 2012 Last Revised: 30 Jul 2012
Eberhard Feess and Ansgar Wohlschlegel
Frankfurt School of Finance & Management and Portsmouth Business School
Downloads 138 (530,816)
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Deferred Bonuses, risk-shifting, financial crisis, Executive compensation

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On the Optimal Design of Unfair Contests

Number of pages: 27 Posted: 30 Oct 2002
Markus Walzl, Eberhard Feess and Gerd Muehlheusser
RWTH Aachen University - Chair for Economics (Microeconomics), Frankfurt School of Finance & Management and University of Hamburg
Downloads 138 (530,816)
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Asymmetric contests, asymmetric information, contest design

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Why are Corrupt Countries Less Successful in Consolidating Their Budgets?

Number of pages: 32 Posted: 08 Sep 2009
Zayed University, European Central Bank (ECB), Frankfurt School of Finance & Management and Portsmouth Business School
Downloads 129 (561,789)
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Corruption, Fiscal consolidation, Binary choice models, Panel data

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Incentive Schemes, Private Information and the Double-Edged Role of Competition for Agents

Number of pages: 56 Posted: 03 Jan 2013 Last Revised: 12 Jul 2016
Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, Frankfurt School of Finance & Management, Berlin School of Economics and Law and University of Innsbruck
Downloads 123 (584,619)
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Incentive compensation, screening, imperfect labor market competition, vertical differentiation, horizontal differentiation, risk aversion

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The Impact of Fine Size and Uncertainty on Punishment and Deterrence: Theory and Evidence from the Laboratory

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9388
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 12 Oct 2015 Last Revised: 18 Nov 2021
Frankfurt School of Finance & Management, University of Düsseldorf - Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE), RWTH Aachen University and Portsmouth Business School
Downloads 114 (621,896)
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deterrence, punishment, legal uncertainty, fines, laboratory experiment, partial and equilibrium effects

30.

Optimal Self-Reporting Schemes with Multiple Stages and Option Values

Number of pages: 21 Posted: 03 Sep 2002
Markus Walzl and Eberhard Feess
RWTH Aachen University - Chair for Economics (Microeconomics) and Frankfurt School of Finance & Management
Downloads 111 (640,165)
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self-reporting, tax amnesties, optimal law enforcement, ex post asymmetric information

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Delegated Expertise - When are Good Projects Bad News?

Number of pages: 8 Posted: 20 Jan 2003
Markus Walzl and Eberhard Feess
RWTH Aachen University - Chair for Economics (Microeconomics) and Frankfurt School of Finance & Management
Downloads 100 (689,572)
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delegated expertise, information revelation, hidden action, limited liability

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The Impact of Truth-Telling and Limited Wealth in a Principal-Agent Model

Schmalenbach Business Review, Vol. 57, 2005
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 09 Mar 2005
Eberhard Feess, Sonja Ossig and Markus Walzl
Frankfurt School of Finance & Management, RWTH Aachen University - Faculty of Economics and University of Maastricht - Department of Economics
Downloads 98 (699,467)

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Delegated expertise, limited liability, moral hazard, principal-agent theory

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The Impact of Heterogeneity on the Optimal Self-Reporting Scheme

Number of pages: 12 Posted: 07 Oct 2002
Markus Walzl and Eberhard Feess
RWTH Aachen University - Chair for Economics (Microeconomics) and Frankfurt School of Finance & Management
Downloads 90 (742,061)

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self-reporting, tax amnesties, optimal law enforcement, ex post asymmetric information

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Bank Capital Requirements and Mandatory Deferral of Compensation

Number of pages: 30 Posted: 24 Jul 2014
Eberhard Feess and Ansgar Wohlschlegel
Frankfurt School of Finance & Management and Portsmouth Business School
Downloads 83 (783,685)

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Bank capital requirements, deferred bonuses, risk-shifting, financial crisis, executive compensation.

35.

Monitoring Reduces Efficiency: Evidence from the Laboratory

Number of pages: 34 Posted: 11 Jul 2014
Eberhard Feess and Markus Schramm
Frankfurt School of Finance & Management and RWTH Aachen University
Downloads 81 (796,622)

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Monitoring, delegation, control premium, laboratory experiment

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Optimal Law Enforcement with Sophisticated and Naive Offenders

CESifo Working Paper Series No. 7106
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 09 Aug 2018
Berno Buechel, Eberhard Feess and Gerd Muehlheusser
University of Fribourg - Faculty of Economics and Social Science, Frankfurt School of Finance & Management and University of Hamburg
Downloads 55 (1,010,164)
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optimal law enforcement, deterrence, behavioral law & economics, naïveté, shrouding

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Reimbursement Schemes for Hospitals: Theory and Evidence from Germany

Posted: 12 Mar 2008 Last Revised: 28 Jul 2010
Frankfurt School of Finance & Management, RWTH Aachen UniversityRWTH Aachen University and Portsmouth Business School

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readmissions, post surgery complications, quality and cost incentives, DRG