Infrastructure Quality in Deregulated Industries: Is there an Underinvestment Problem?
Stefan Buehler, Armin Schmutzler, Men-Andri Benz
We investigate how various institutional settings affect a network provider’s incentives to invest in infrastructure quality. Under reasonable assumptions on demand, investment incentives turn out...
Quality Provision in Deregulated Industries: The Railtrack Problem
Men-Andri Benz, Stefan Buehler, Armin Schmutzler
This paper studies a network provider's incentives to invest in infrastructure quality. In a simple but general framework, we investigate how various institutional settings affect investment...
Men-Andri Benz, Leif Brandes, Egon Franck
The purpose of this study is to analyze whether previous results describing the effect of uncertainty of outcome on match attendance in team sports have been driven by heterogeneity in fan demand. We...
I know what you did last weekend- or do I? Introducing mental anchoring to the demand for sport
Men-Andri Benz, Leif Brandes, Egon Franck
Football matches are by no means homogenous goods. Rather, there are big differences in single match quality, which is ex-ante unobservable to consumers. We argue that quality uncertainty leads...
Strategic Choice of Celibacy in the Catholic Church
Men-Andri Benz, Egon Franck, Urs Meister
Since the middle ages celibacy is a necessary commitment when considering becoming a priest in the Roman Catholic Church. In the ongoing discussions about reforms, a wide range of church members ask...
Do soccer teams have to be compensated for releasing star players to the national teams?
Despite its long tradition the practice of releasing star players for association matches without compensating the clubs has become increasingly controversial. The clubs claim that their players play...
Unternehmensberatung als Legitimation.
Egon Franck, Torsten Pudack, Men-Andri Benz
Zu den Funktionen, die Unternehmensberatungen für ihre Klienten erfüllen können, wird in der Literatur auch die sogenannte Legitimationsfunktion gezählt. Demzufolge können Manager...
sports economics
Infrastructure Quality in Deregulated Industries: Is there an Underinvestment Problem?
Benz, Men-Andri, Bühler, Stefan, Schmutzler, Armin
We investigate how various institutional settings affect a network provider’s incentives to invest in infrastructure quality. Under reasonable assumptions on demand, investment incentives turn out...
MEN-ANDRI BENZ, LEIF BRANDES, EGON FRANCK
"The purpose of this study is to analyze whether previous results describing the effect of uncertainty of outcome on match attendance in team sports have been driven by heterogeneity in fan demand....
Should the Catholic Church abolish the rule of Celibacy?
Men-Andri Benz, Reto Foellmi, Egon Franck, Urs Meister
Since the Middle Ages, celibacy has been a requirement for those becoming priests in the Roman Catholic Church. In the ongoing discussions about reforms, a wide range of church members have asked for...