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Self-selection and misreporting in legislative surveys
This article discusses the methodological challenges of legislative surveys. Following an overview of different types of survey biases, the article argues that self-selection and misreporting are the most critical problems for legislative surveys. In order to identify the self-selection and misreporting biases, we compare the answers to a survey from Swiss members of parliament with…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2016
Stress and turnover intent in international organizations: social support and work life balance as resources
This study investigates whether work opportunities have an impact on stress and the related turnover intentions of employees working in intergovernmental international organizations. It contextualizes the job resources and demands model within international organizations’ specific work conditions. The empirical test is based on original data from a survey administered in four major…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2016
Interests groups in parliament: exploring MPs’ interest affiliations (2000-2011)
This research note presents an innovative dataset of Swiss MPs’ interest ties between 2000-2011. The longitudinal analysis shows that the average number of interest ties per MP has more than doubled: from 3.5 in 2000 to 7.6 in 2011. Since the mid-2000s, public interest groups have accounted for approximately one out of two ties between MPs and interest groups, showing the strongest…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2016
Defending the status quo across venues and coalitions: evidence from California interest groups
This study investigates the conditions under which pro-status quo groups increase their advocacy success during an entire policy-making process. It scrutinizes whether prostates quo defenders who are involved in multiple institutional venues and who join many coalitions of interest groups are able to achieve their policy preferences. A case study focusing on the regulation of stem…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2016
Can hybrid cultures be normative?: the challenge of indeterminacy for multiculturalism
This dissertation takes up a theoretical problem that prejudices justifications of multiculturalism. If we understand multiculturalism as a position holding that cultures are valuable entities that deserve respect and recognition, we must not only show that there indeed are such things as cultures, but also that culture is the right kind of entity to possess value. However, these…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2016
The political economy of compensatory redistribution: Unemployment, inequality and policy choice
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2016
Roll call votes in democratic legislatures: the reasons for their use and their effects on legislative behavior
This dissertation examines the reasons for the selection of roll call votes and their effects on legislators' voting behavior in democratic legislatures. First, the dissertation shows that legislators have an incentive to facilitate the use of roll call votes when they expect that their policy preferences are aligned with those of important actors outside the legislature.…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2016
Confidence sets for model selection
At first glance the goals of model selection might seem clear. Out of a set of possible models, we want to select the ”best” or a subset of ”best” models. This notion of ”best” however is not well defined, since it obviously depends on the initial goals of the selection. In order to study the uncertainty in model selection, we introduce a new definition of a model, where the models…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2016
Robust inference for random fields and latent models
This thesis delivers a new framework for the robust parametric estimation of random fields and latent models through the use of the wavelet variance. By proposing a new M-estimation approach for the latter quantity and delivering results on the identifiability of a wide class of latent models, the thesis finally delivers a computationally efficient and statistically sound method to…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2016
Measures of model adequacy and model selection in mixed-effects models
This thesis contributes to the development of measures of model selection and model adequacy for mixed-effects models. In the context of linear mixed-effects models, we review and compare in a simulation study a large set of measures proposed to evaluate model adequacy or/and to perform model selection. In the more general context of generalized linear mixed-effects models, we…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2016
Robust penalized M-estimators for generalized linear and additive models
Generalized linear models (GLM) and generalized additive models (GAM) are popular statistical methods for modelling continuous and discrete data both parametrically and nonparametrically. In this general framework, we consider the problem of variable selection by studying a wide class of penalized M-estimators that are particularly well suited for high dimensional scenarios where the…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2016
Capitalizing upon the attractive and addictive properties of massively multiplayer online role-playing games to promote wellbeing
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2016
A predictive based regression algorithm for gene network selection
Gene selection has become a common task in most gene expression studies. The objective of such research is often to identify the smallest possible set of genes that can still achieve good predictive performance. To do so, many of the recently proposed classification methods require some form of dimension-reduction of the problem which finally provide a single model as an output and,…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2016
Union members at the polls in diverse trade union landscapes
This article investigates to what extent social democratic parties still benefit from the support of union members at the polls. Not only are social democratic parties confronted with new competitors in the party systems, but also the union confederations of the socialist labour movement are in some countries losing their dominant position due to the rise of separate professional…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2016
Can EU Member States Still Negotiate BITs with Third Countries?
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2016
Tribunal dismisses all claims by U.S. mining investor against Oman
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2016
Agglomeration Theory with Heterogeneous Agents
This chapter surveys recent developments in agglomeration theory within a unifying framework. We highlight how locational fundamentals, agglomeration economies, the spatial sorting of heterogeneous agents, and selection effects affect the size, productivity, composition, and inequality of cities, as well as their size distribution in the urban system.
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2015
Essays on location choice: agglomeration, amenities and housing
Why do people live where they live and what are the consequences of these decisions? People and firms allocate themselves unevenly across space. In spite of large costs incurred when living in metropolitan areas, economic agents remain extremely concentrated in a finite number of cities. This thesis explores several factors that may influence these location decisions and their effect…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2015
Measurement and effects of home care policy on health care use
This dissertation focuses on the measurement of regional home care policy and its effects on health care utilization. It brings three main contributions. First, it provides causal evidence on the effects of home care policy generosity on hospitalizations, doctor visits, and nursing home use. Variations in generosity across the Swiss cantons and over time are used to identify the…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2015
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