infonet-economy

Building upon and extending Parker, Bindl, and Strauss’s (2010)theory of proactive motivation, we develop an integrated, multilevel model to examine how contextual factors shape employees’ proactive motivational states and, through these proactive motivational states, influence their personal initiative behavior. Using data from a sample of hotels collected from 3 sources and over 2…

Scholars studying intuition are frequently focusing on decision takers and to this day, they conceptualize intuition as a form of judgment. More recently, the notion of intuition in creativity has been challenged by the argument that although the creative process may contain intuitive judgments, any creative idea or solution is essentially the result of intuitive insight. This…

We propose a formal way to systematically study the differential effects of exogenous shocks in economic models with heterogeneous agents. Our setting applies to models that can be rephrased as "competition for market shares" in a broad sense. We show that even in presence of any number of arbitrarily heterogeneous agents, a single recursion relation characterizes the…

What determines risk-bearing capacity and the amount of leverage in financial markets? Using unique archival data on collateralized lending, we show that personal experience can affect individual risk-taking and aggregate leverage. When an investor syndicate speculating in Amsterdam in 1772 went bankrupt, many lenders were exposed. In the end, none of them actually lost money.…

As suggested by previous results, whether, when designing robots, we should make use of social stereotypes and thus perpetuate them is question of present concern. The aim of this study was the identification of the specific conditions under which people’s judgments of robots were no longer guided by stereotypes. The study participants were 121 individuals between 18 and 69 years of…

Pourquoi jeter lorsqu’on peut conserver? Exit le papier physique et les mètres linéaires. L’ère du numérique a tout chamboulé. L’espace dans les nuages est infini, c’est la promesse de la loi Kryder qui prédit empiriquement le doublement de la densité de stockage tous les ans depuis 60 ans. Mais conserver l’information c’est bien, la retrouver c’est encore mieux et indispensable.…

The European Academic Network for Open Innovation – (OI-Net) is an EU co-financed project designed to promote coopera,on on open innovation research and educa,on. It consists of 51 academic and industrial partners from 35 European countries. One of the outcomes of this project is the first European Survey on IdenCficaCon of Industrial Needs for Open InnovaCon EducaCon. The OI-Net…

To assess the impact of interventions on well-being during war time, we analyze data from the birth records at the university maternity hospital of Basle in the period 1912-1920. Birth weight of children from medium SEP families decreased during the crisis years 1918 and 1919, but not for low and high SEP families. A potential explanation is access to food: while high SEP families…