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Touchstone of Trust inside Organizations: Antecedents of high-trust manager-employee relationships
Using qualitative and set theoretic methods, we target cognitive processes of why managers install high-trust relationships with their employees, focusing on the leap of faith as the irra-tional touchstone of such trust relationships. In a first step we ‘open the managers’ heads’, as results of our semi-structured expert-interviews reveal five cues prompting them to leap: (1)…
Institution partenaire
English / 16/11/2016
Agglomeration Effects and Liquidity Gradients in Local Rental Housing Markets
This paper empirically analyzes the relation between local liquidity in rental housing markets and urban agglomeration e�ects. Using listed rent o�ers from online market platforms, I study the cross-sectional variation of rental market liquidity. Local liquidity is negatively related to the distance to nearby located urban Agglomeration centers, manifesting in a decreasing liquidity…
Institution partenaire
English / 16/11/2016
Individual Investor Activity and performance
We examine the daily activity and performance of a large panel of individual investors in Sweden's Premium Pension System. We find that active investors earn higher returns and risk-adjusted returns than inactive investors. A performance decomposition analysis reveals that most of the outperformance of active investors is the result of these investors successfully timing mutual…
Institution partenaire
English / 07/11/2016
Anstellung einer Haushalthilfe als politischer Selbstversuch
Wer den Inländervorrang in der scharfen Variante fordert, hat noch nie eine Mitarbeiterin über die Arbeitsvermittlung gesucht.
Institution partenaire
/ 01/11/2016
What effect do vocational training vouchers have on the unemployed?
The objective of providing vocational training for the unemployed is to increase their chances of re-employment and human capital accumulation. In comparison to mandatory course assignment by case workers, the awarding of vouchers increases recipients’ freedom to choose between different courses and makes non-redemption a possibility. In addition, vouchers may introduce market…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/11/2016
Über Customer Journeys zum Kundenerlebnis
Kunden haben
heute unzählige
Möglichkeiten, um
Interaktionen mit
ihrem Versicherer
auszugestalten. In
eben diesen Austauschsituationen
wird das ansonsten
kaum greifbare
Versicherungsprodukt
für Kunden
erst erlebbar. Es ist
daher für Versicherer von strategischer
Relevanz, die Customer Journeys (…
Institution partenaire
Deutsch / 01/11/2016
The WTO after TPP. How Worried Should Asian Governments Be
This paper critically evaluates the contention that the implementation of the Trans-Pacific Partnership would adversely affect the centrality of the World Trade Organization. Not only are many Asian nations members of the WTO, but some undertook major reforms to join. Contrary to much existing literature, it is argued here that governments in the Asia-Pacific region should not be…
Institution partenaire
/ 01/11/2016
How the Media Affects Attitudes towards Foreigners: Econometric Evidence
Institution partenaire
/ 07/10/2016
Banken entdecken ihr Herz für Familien
Beim Kauf von Wohneigentum gilt allerdings auch in Zeiten tiefer Zinsen vor allem diese Regel: Drum prüfe, wer sich ewig bindet.
Institution partenaire
/ 01/10/2016
Und wer muss am Ende dafür bezahlen? Die Jugend
Die Wahl einer hohen Franchise bei der Krankenkasse ist nicht
Ausdruck von Entsolidarisierung. Das Gegenteil ist richtig.
Institution partenaire
/ 01/10/2016
The role of spatial and temporal structure for residential rent predictions
This paper examines the predictive power of five linear hedonic pricing models for the residential market with varying levels of complexity in their spatial and temporal structures. Unlike similar studies, we extend the out-of-sample forecast evaluation to one-day-ahead predictions with a rolling estimation window, which is a reasonable setting for many practical applications. We…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/10/2016
Direct Democracy, Postal Voting, and the Composition of Turnout
Existing work on the effects of electoral reforms suggests that decreasing the costs of voting may exacerbate rather than reduce representational biases in turnout. We argue that some electoral institutions may have more uniform mobilization effects than previously thought and exploit the sequential introduction of postal voting in Switzerland to analyze how an exogenous decrease in…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/10/2016
Publishing Open Access from a researchers’ point of view
Institution partenaire
English / 07/09/2016
Is Governance Related to Investment Performance and Asset Allocation? Empirical Evidence from Swiss Pension Funds
This study investigates the relationship between governance, investment performance and asset allocation of pension funds in Switzerland. Our sample includes survey data from 139 Swiss occupational pension plans for which we develop a governance metric comprising attributes of organisational design, management incentives, target setting, investment strategy, investment processes,…
Institution partenaire
English / 05/09/2016
Growth accounting and endogenous technical change.
This study explores growth accounting under endogenous technological progress. It is well known that the Solow approach overstates (understates) the contribution of capital accumulation (technological progress) to economic growth and that the Mankiw-Romer-Weil approach addresses this issue. However, we find that the Mankiw-Romer-Weil approach is inconsistent (consistent) with the lab…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/09/2016
Decision rights: freedom, power, and interference
We propose a general theoretical model of decision‐rights allocation and choice, formulated in the context of a dynamic psychological game. Decision rights are valued not only instrumentally, i.e. according to the expected utility associated with the achieved outcomes, but also intrinsically, i.e. according to the procedure by which outcomes are achieved. As such procedural…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/09/2016
Wenn das Sparsäuli der Enkel die Rente sichert
Wer hat am meisten von der AHV? Die Babyboomer? Oder eher deren
Eltern? Klar ist nur, wer weniger haben wird: Die Jugend von heute
Institution partenaire
/ 01/09/2016
The Earned Income Tax Credit:Targeting the Poor but Crowding Out Wealth
In this paper, we quantify the effects of the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) from a macroeconomic perspective. We analyze jointly the labor supply and saving responses to changes in tax credit generosity and their aggregate and distributional implications. Our results show that the EITC raises labor force participation, provides insurance to working poor households but also…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/09/2016
Communal Land and Agricultural Productivity
Communal land tenure is a typical feature of many developing countries. Such tenure regimes implement a “use it or lose it” principle by imposing restrictions to land transferability that are enforced via the threat of expropriation. This paper measures the distortionary impact of communal land in a dynamic general equilibrium model of occupational selection, calibrated to Ethiopia.…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/09/2016
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