Friederike Lenel, a doctoral student of the Development and Security Department, was awarded the best PhD Student Paper Award for her paper 'Insurance and Solidarity' at the International Association for Research in Economic Psychology Annual Conference 2016 in Wageningen. The paper was written in collaboration with Prof. Dr. Susan Steiner as part of the research project 'Insurance and Private Transfers ...
In this study, we analyze a client’s choice of contract in auctions where Dutch law firms compete for cases. The distinguishing feature is that lawyers may submit bids with any fee arrangement they wish. We find robust evidence that bids offering hourly rates are less attractive to clients. Our findings tentatively contradict lawyers’ often-made argument that hourly rates are in a client’s ...
Mr. Seldeslachts, you analyzed a client’s choice of contract in auctions where Dutch law firms compete for cases. What was the aim of your investigation? The aim was to look at a completely different environment where lawyers could offer contracts to clients, who were then actually able to choose from among several lawyers and various kinds of contracts. [...] The interview with Jo Seldeslachts, ...
Changes in economic environment often influence industry competitiveness: For example, weaker exchange rates make exporting industries more competitive, higher energy prices benefit energy producers and harm large energy consumers.Thus, industries are important for workers: Employment opportunities vary widely across industries, as do wages. This can best be understood in a model that recognizes...
Florian Mölders, a DIW Graduate Center alumnus, has received the best Doctoral Dissertation Award from the University of Duisburg-Essen for his doctoral thesis "Development, Trade Agreements and Knowledge Spillovers - Five empirical essays", submitted to the University of Duisburg-Essen in January 2014. His thesis was supervised by Professor Ansgar Belke (University of Duisburg-Essen) and Professor ...
Nina Vogel worked in the SOEP up to April 2016 under a scholarship from the International Max Planck Research School on the Life Course (LIFE). She successfully defended her dissertation on "Contextual Effects on Individual Development of Subjective Well-being in the Second Half of Life" on July 10, 2016 at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Advisor: Denis Gerstorf).
In this study, we analyze a client’s choice of contract in auctions where Dutch law firms compete for cases. The distinguishing feature is that lawyers may submit bids with any fee arrangement they wish. We find robust evidence that bids offering hourly rates are less attractive to clients. Our findings tentatively contradict lawyers’ often-made argument that hourly rates are in a client’s best in ...
