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Helmut Bester

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Terminal Degree:1984 Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich; Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn (from RePEc Genealogy)

Affiliation

Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaft
Freie Universität Berlin

Berlin, Germany
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Working papers

  1. Bester, Helmut & Sákovics, József, 2022. "Cooperation, Competition, and Welfare in a Matching Market," Rationality and Competition Discussion Paper Series 332, CRC TRR 190 Rationality and Competition.
  2. Bester, Helmut, 2021. "Fairness and Competition in a Bilateral Matching Market," Rationality and Competition Discussion Paper Series 287, CRC TRR 190 Rationality and Competition.
  3. Helmut Bester & Matthias Lang & Jianpei Li, 2018. "Signaling versus Auditing," CESifo Working Paper Series 7183, CESifo.
  4. Bester, Helmut & Lang, Matthias & Li, Jianpei, 2018. "Signaling versus costly information acquisition," Discussion Papers 2018/11, Free University Berlin, School of Business & Economics.
  5. Bester, Helmut & Yaofu, Ouyang, 2018. "Optimal procurement of a credence good under limited liability," Discussion Papers 2018/1, Free University Berlin, School of Business & Economics.
  6. Bester, Helmut & Dahm, Matthias, 2014. "Credence Goods, Costly Diagnosis, and Subjective Evaluation," CEPR Discussion Papers 10254, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
  7. Bester, Helmut & Demuth, Juri, 2013. "Signalling Rivalry and Quality Uncertainty in a Duopoly," Discussion Paper Series of SFB/TR 15 Governance and the Efficiency of Economic Systems 400, Free University of Berlin, Humboldt University of Berlin, University of Bonn, University of Mannheim, University of Munich.
  8. Bester, Helmut & Krähmer, Daniel, 2013. "Exit Options and the Allocation of Authority," Discussion Paper Series of SFB/TR 15 Governance and the Efficiency of Economic Systems 401, Free University of Berlin, Humboldt University of Berlin, University of Bonn, University of Mannheim, University of Munich.
  9. Bester, Helmut & Münster, Johannes, 2013. "Subjective Evaluation versus Public Information," Discussion Paper Series of SFB/TR 15 Governance and the Efficiency of Economic Systems 399, Free University of Berlin, Humboldt University of Berlin, University of Bonn, University of Mannheim, University of Munich.
  10. Gehrig, Thomas & Bester, Helmut & ,, 2012. "Loan Sales and Screening Incentives," CEPR Discussion Papers 9084, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
  11. Bester, Helmut, 2009. "Investments and the Holdup Problem in a Matching Market," CEPR Discussion Papers 7332, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
  12. Bester, Helmut & Milliou, Chrysovalantou & Petrakis, Emmanuel, 2009. "Wages and Productivity Growth in a Dynamic Oligopoly," Discussion Paper Series of SFB/TR 15 Governance and the Efficiency of Economic Systems 287, Free University of Berlin, Humboldt University of Berlin, University of Bonn, University of Mannheim, University of Munich.
  13. Bester, Helmut & Krähmer, Daniel, 2008. "Exit Options in Incomplete Contracts with Asymmetric Information," Discussion Paper Series of SFB/TR 15 Governance and the Efficiency of Economic Systems 251, Free University of Berlin, Humboldt University of Berlin, University of Bonn, University of Mannheim, University of Munich.
  14. Bester, Helmut & Krähmer, Daniel, 2007. "Delegation and Incentives," CEPR Discussion Papers 6042, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
  15. Bester, Helmut & Wärneryd, Karl, 2006. "Conflict and the Social Contract," Discussion Paper Series of SFB/TR 15 Governance and the Efficiency of Economic Systems 94, Free University of Berlin, Humboldt University of Berlin, University of Bonn, University of Mannheim, University of Munich.
  16. Bester, Helmut & Konrad, Kai A., 2004. "Easy Targets and the Timing of Conflict," CEPR Discussion Papers 4245, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
  17. Bester, Helmut & Konrad, Kai A., 2003. "Easy targets and the timing of conflict," University of Göttingen Working Papers in Economics 21, University of Goettingen, Department of Economics.
  18. Bester, Helmut & Konrad, Kai A., 2003. "Delay in Contests," CEPR Discussion Papers 3784, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
  19. Bester, Helmut, 2002. "Externalities and the Allocation of Decision Rights in the Theory of the Firm," CEPR Discussion Papers 3276, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
  20. Bester, H., 1994. "A bargaining model of financial intermediation," Discussion Paper 1994-15, Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research.
  21. Bester, H. & Güth, W., 1994. "Is altruism evolutionarily stable ?," Discussion Paper 1994-103, Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research.
  22. Bester, H. & Petrakis, E., 1994. "Coupons and Oligopolistic Price Discrimination," Discussion Paper 1994-12, Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research.
  23. Bester, H., 1993. "Bargaining versus price competition in markets with quality uncertainty," Other publications TiSEM 18a53327-837f-4e75-8fd7-9, Tilburg University, School of Economics and Management.
  24. Bester, H., 1993. "Bertrand equilibrium in a differentiated duopoly," Other publications TiSEM 3d34cb58-5163-4a5d-87d0-d, Tilburg University, School of Economics and Management.
  25. Bester, H., 1993. "Price Commitment in Search Markets," Papers 9309, Tilburg - Center for Economic Research.
  26. Bester, H. & Petrakis, E., 1992. "Price Advertising and Advertising in Oligopoly," Papers 9222, Tilburg - Center for Economic Research.
  27. Bester, H. & de Palma, A. & Leininger, W., 1991. "The Missing Equilibria in Hotelling's Location Game," Papers 9163, Tilburg - Center for Economic Research.
  28. Bester, H., 1991. "A Model of price Advertising and Sales," Papers 9158, Tilburg - Center for Economic Research.
  29. Bester, H., 1991. "Bargaining V.S. Price Competition in a Market with Quality Uncertainty," Papers 9113, Tilburg - Center for Economic Research.
  30. Bester, H. & Petrakis, E., 1991. "The Incentives for Cost Reduction in a Differentiated Industry," Papers 9136, Tilburg - Center for Economic Research.
  31. Helmut Bester, 1990. "The Role of Collateral in a Model of Debt Renegotiation," CEPR Financial Markets Paper 0001, European Science Foundation Network in Financial Markets, c/o C.E.P.R, 33 Great Sutton Street, London EC1V 0DX..
  32. Helmut Bester & Klaus Ritzberger, "undated". "Strategic Pricing, Signalling, and Costly Information Acquisition," Papers 008, Departmental Working Papers.
  33. Helmut Bester & Emmanuel Petrakis, "undated". "Wages and Productivity Growth in a Competitive Industry," Papers 009, Departmental Working Papers.
  34. Helmut Bester & J?sef S?ovics, "undated". "Delegated Bargaining And Renegotiation," UFAE and IAE Working Papers 440.99, Unitat de Fonaments de l'Anàlisi Econòmica (UAB) and Institut d'Anàlisi Econòmica (CSIC).
  35. Helmut Bester & Roland Strausz, "undated". "Imperfect Commitment and the Revelation Principle," Papers 004, Departmental Working Papers.
  36. Helmut Bester & Karl Warneryd, "undated". "Conflict Resolution under Asymmetric Information," Papers 006, Departmental Working Papers.
  37. Helmut Bester & Roland Strausz, "undated". "Contracting with Imperfect Commitment and Noisy Communication," Papers 017, Departmental Working Papers.
  38. Helmut Bester, "undated". "Externalities, Communication and the Allocation of Decision Rights," Papers 027, Departmental Working Papers.
  39. Helmut Bester & Emmanuel Petrakis, "undated". "Wages and Productivity Growth in a Dynamic Monopoly," Papers 012, Departmental Working Papers.

Articles

  1. Bester, Helmut & Sákovics, József, 2024. "Cooperation, competition, and welfare in a matching market," Games and Economic Behavior, Elsevier, vol. 143(C), pages 357-369.
  2. Bester, Helmut, 2024. "Fairness and competition in a bilateral matching market," Games and Economic Behavior, Elsevier, vol. 146(C), pages 121-136.
  3. Helmut Bester & Matthias Lang & Jianpei Li, 2021. "Signaling versus Auditing," RAND Journal of Economics, RAND Corporation, vol. 52(4), pages 859-883, December.
  4. Helmut Bester & Matthias Dahm, 2018. "Credence Goods, Costly Diagnosis and Subjective Evaluation," Economic Journal, Royal Economic Society, vol. 128(611), pages 1367-1394, June.
  5. Bester, Helmut & Ouyang, Yaofu, 2018. "Optimal procurement of a credence good under limited liability," International Journal of Industrial Organization, Elsevier, vol. 61(C), pages 96-129.
  6. Helmut Bester & Daniel Krähmer, 2017. "The optimal allocation of decision and exit rights in organizations," RAND Journal of Economics, RAND Corporation, vol. 48(2), pages 309-334, May.
  7. Helmut Bester & Johannes Münster, 2016. "Subjective evaluation versus public information," Economic Theory, Springer;Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory (SAET), vol. 61(4), pages 723-753, April.
  8. Helmut Bester & Juri Demuth, 2015. "Signalling Rivalry and Quality Uncertainty in a Duopoly," Journal of Industry, Competition and Trade, Springer, vol. 15(2), pages 135-154, June.
  9. Bester, Helmut, 2013. "Investments and the holdup problem in a matching market," Journal of Mathematical Economics, Elsevier, vol. 49(4), pages 302-311.
  10. Bester, Helmut & Krähmer, Daniel, 2012. "Exit options in incomplete contracts with asymmetric information," Journal of Economic Theory, Elsevier, vol. 147(5), pages 1947-1968.
  11. Bester, Helmut & Milliou, Chrysovalantou & Petrakis, Emmanuel, 2012. "Wage bargaining, productivity growth and long-run industry structure," Labour Economics, Elsevier, vol. 19(6), pages 923-930.
  12. Helmut Bester, 2009. "Externalities, communication and the allocation of decision rights," Economic Theory, Springer;Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory (SAET), vol. 41(2), pages 269-296, November.
  13. Helmut Bester & Daniel Krähmer, 2008. "Delegation and incentives," RAND Journal of Economics, RAND Corporation, vol. 39(3), pages 664-682, September.
  14. Bester, Helmut & Strausz, Roland, 2007. "Contracting with imperfect commitment and noisy communication," Journal of Economic Theory, Elsevier, vol. 136(1), pages 236-259, September.
  15. Helmut Bester & Karl Wärneryd, 2006. "Conflict and the Social Contract," Scandinavian Journal of Economics, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 108(2), pages 231-249, July.
  16. Helmut Bester & Kai A. Konrad, 2005. "Easy Targets and the Timing of Conflict," Journal of Theoretical Politics, , vol. 17(2), pages 199-215, April.
  17. Bester, Helmut & Petrakis, Emmanuel, 2004. "Wages and productivity growth in a dynamic monopoly," International Journal of Industrial Organization, Elsevier, vol. 22(1), pages 83-100, January.
  18. Bester, Helmut & Konrad, Kai A., 2004. "Delay in contests," European Economic Review, Elsevier, vol. 48(5), pages 1169-1178, October.
  19. Bester, Helmut & Petrakis, Emmanuel, 2003. "Wages and productivity growth in a competitive industry," Journal of Economic Theory, Elsevier, vol. 109(1), pages 52-69, March.
  20. Bester, Helmut & Strausz, Roland, 2001. "Contracting with Imperfect Commitment and the Revelation Principle: The Single Agent Case," Econometrica, Econometric Society, vol. 69(4), pages 1077-1098, July.
  21. Helmut Bester, 2001. "Book Review," Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics (JITE), Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen, vol. 157(4), pages 689-690, December.
  22. Bester, Helmut & Ritzberger, Klaus, 2001. "Strategic pricing, signalling, and costly information acquisition," International Journal of Industrial Organization, Elsevier, vol. 19(9), pages 1347-1361, November.
  23. Bester, Helmut & Sakovics, Jozsef, 2001. "Delegated bargaining and renegotiation," Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier, vol. 45(4), pages 459-473, August.
  24. Bester, Helmut & Strausz, Roland, 2000. "Imperfect commitment and the revelation principle: the multi-agent case," Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 69(2), pages 165-171, November.
  25. Helmut Bester, 1998. "Quality Uncertainty Mitigates Product Differentiation," RAND Journal of Economics, The RAND Corporation, vol. 29(4), pages 828-844, Winter.
  26. Bester, Helmut & Guth, Werner, 1998. "Is altruism evolutionarily stable?," Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier, vol. 34(2), pages 193-209, February.
  27. Bester, Helmut & Petrakis, Emmanuel, 1996. "Coupons and oligopolistic price discrimination," International Journal of Industrial Organization, Elsevier, vol. 14(2), pages 227-242.
  28. Bester, Helmut & de Palma, Andre & Leininger, Wolfgang & Thomas, Jonathan & von Thadden, Ernst-Ludwig, 1996. "A Noncooperative Analysis of Hotelling's Location Game," Games and Economic Behavior, Elsevier, vol. 12(2), pages 165-186, February.
  29. Bester, Helmut, 1995. "A bargaining model of financial intermediation," European Economic Review, Elsevier, vol. 39(2), pages 211-228, February.
  30. Bester, Helmut & Petrakis, Emmanuel, 1995. "Price competition and advertising in oligopoly," European Economic Review, Elsevier, vol. 39(6), pages 1075-1088, June.
  31. Helmut Bester, 1994. "Random Advertising and Monopolistic Price Dispersion," Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 3(3), pages 545-559, September.
  32. Bester, Helmut, 1994. "Price commitment in search markets," Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier, vol. 25(1), pages 109-120, September.
  33. Bester, Helmut, 1994. "The Role of Collateral in a Model of Debt Renegotiation," Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, Blackwell Publishing, vol. 26(1), pages 72-86, February.
  34. Bester, Helmut & Petrakis, Emmanuel, 1993. "The incentives for cost reduction in a differentiated industry," International Journal of Industrial Organization, Elsevier, vol. 11(4), pages 519-534.
  35. Bester, Helmut, 1993. "Bargaining versus Price Competition in Markets with Quality Uncertainty," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 83(1), pages 278-288, March.
  36. Bester, Helmut, 1992. "Bertrand Equilibrium in a Differentiated Duopoly," International Economic Review, Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania and Osaka University Institute of Social and Economic Research Association, vol. 33(2), pages 433-448, May.
  37. Bester, Helmut, 1989. "Noncooperative Bargaining and Spatial Competition," Econometrica, Econometric Society, vol. 57(1), pages 97-113, January.
  38. Bester, Helmut, 1989. "Incentive-Compatible Long-term Contracts and Job Rationing," Journal of Labor Economics, University of Chicago Press, vol. 7(2), pages 238-255, April.
  39. Helmut Bester, 1988. "Bargaining, Search Costs and Equilibrium Price Distributions," The Review of Economic Studies, Review of Economic Studies Ltd, vol. 55(2), pages 201-214.
  40. Bester, Helmut, 1987. "The role of collateral in credit markets with imperfect information," European Economic Review, Elsevier, vol. 31(4), pages 887-899, June.
  41. Bester, Helmut, 1985. "Screening vs. Rationing in Credit Markets with Imperfect Information," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 75(4), pages 850-855, September.
  42. Bester, Helmut, 1984. "Increasing risk and equilibrium under uncertainty," Journal of Economic Theory, Elsevier, vol. 33(2), pages 378-386, August.
  43. Bester, Helmut, 1984. "On increasing risk in incomplete markets," Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 16(1-2), pages 27-30.
  44. Bester, Helmut, 1982. "On shareholder unanimity in the mean-variance model," Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 10(3-4), pages 363-367.
  45. Bester Helmut, 1980. "Der Umschlag fixen Kapitals im Marxschen Zwei-Abteilungen-Modell / The Turnover of Fixed Capital in Marx's Two-Department-Model," Journal of Economics and Statistics (Jahrbuecher fuer Nationaloekonomie und Statistik), De Gruyter, vol. 195(4), pages 351-368, April.
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Chapters

  1. Helmut Bester, 2004. "Specific Skills, Imperfect Information and Job Rationing," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Steffen Huck (ed.), Advances in Understanding Strategic Behaviour, chapter 5, pages 73-84, Palgrave Macmillan.

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  1. NEP-MIC: Microeconomics (14) 2003-03-14 2005-10-29 2005-10-29 2005-12-01 2006-01-24 2007-01-28 2013-06-16 2013-06-16 2013-06-16 2014-12-29 2015-01-09 2018-02-05 2022-09-05 2022-10-10. Author is listed
  2. NEP-CTA: Contract Theory and Applications (10) 2008-12-01 2012-02-01 2012-10-06 2013-06-16 2013-06-16 2013-06-16 2013-06-24 2013-06-24 2014-12-29 2021-07-26. Author is listed
  3. NEP-BEC: Business Economics (7) 2005-10-29 2006-02-12 2007-01-28 2008-12-01 2009-12-19 2012-02-01 2013-06-16. Author is listed
  4. NEP-REG: Regulation (6) 2000-07-03 2001-02-21 2004-04-25 2018-02-05 2022-09-05 2022-10-10. Author is listed
  5. NEP-COM: Industrial Competition (5) 2004-04-25 2012-02-01 2013-06-16 2021-07-26 2022-09-05. Author is listed
  6. NEP-GTH: Game Theory (5) 2000-07-03 2009-07-03 2009-10-03 2022-09-05 2022-10-10. Author is listed
  7. NEP-HRM: Human Capital and Human Resource Management (4) 2013-06-16 2013-06-16 2013-06-24 2013-06-24
  8. NEP-CDM: Collective Decision-Making (3) 2013-06-16 2013-06-24 2022-09-05
  9. NEP-EVO: Evolutionary Economics (3) 2004-06-13 2022-09-05 2022-10-10
  10. NEP-IND: Industrial Organization (3) 2000-07-03 2012-02-01 2013-06-16
  11. NEP-DES: Economic Design (2) 2022-09-05 2022-10-10
  12. NEP-DGE: Dynamic General Equilibrium (2) 2009-07-03 2009-10-03
  13. NEP-LAB: Labour Economics (2) 2000-12-19 2001-02-27
  14. NEP-BAN: Banking (1) 2012-10-06
  15. NEP-HPE: History and Philosophy of Economics (1) 2003-07-13
  16. NEP-LAW: Law and Economics (1) 2018-02-05
  17. NEP-ORE: Operations Research (1) 2021-07-26
  18. NEP-PBE: Public Economics (1) 2006-02-12
  19. NEP-PPM: Project, Program and Portfolio Management (1) 2007-01-28
  20. NEP-SOC: Social Norms and Social Capital (1) 2006-02-12

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