Publications des institutions partenaires
Students are almost as effective as professors in university teaching
Many universities around the world rely on student instructors—current bachelor’s and master’s degree students—for tutorial teaching, yet we know nothing about their effectiveness. In a setting with random assignment of instructors to students, we show that student instructors are almost as effective as senior instructors at improving their students’ short- and longer-run academic...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/09/2017
Der grosse Krypto-Quatsch
Derzeit ist nicht erkennbar, dass es eine klare Rolle für Kryptowährungen gibt, die für legitime Zwecke nicht ebenso gut durch traditionelle Währungen erfüllt werden könnte. Ein Kommentar von Joachim Voth.
Institution partenaire
Deutsch / 21/08/2017
Der Aufstieg der Superstar-Firmen
Der Erfolg von Unternehmen wie Microsoft und Amazon hat zur Marktdominanz einzelner Anbieter geführt und deren Besitzer immens reich gemacht. Ein Kommentar von David Dorn.
Institution partenaire
Deutsch / 14/08/2017
Abandon ship?: party brands and politicians’ responses to a political scandal
In this article, we study politicians’ – rather than voters’ – responses to the main political scandal in Italian recent history (Tangentopoli), and overcome endogeneity concerns by analysing the local implications of this national corruption scandal. We find that local politicians withdraw support for incumbents in parties hit by Tangentopoli – inducing increased political...
Institution partenaire
English / 09/08/2017
Prix de transfert optimaux et comportement stratégique des multinationales
The purpose of this paper is to deal with two features of the multinational behaviour not found in previous models of transfer pricing. First on the contrary to earlier literature, we assume that quantity (or price) decisions are no more centralised but are delegated to exporting and importing affiliates. Second, we underline the importance of strategic interactions with other firms...
Institution partenaire
English / 02/08/2017
The Ranking Of Economists And Management Scientists In Europe A Quantitative Analysis
Institution partenaire
Français / 02/08/2017
,,Kosten der Kleinheit" und die Föderalismusdebatte in der Schweiz
This article discusses the smallness of subsidiary jurisdictions as a third dimension of centrality, besides vertical centrality and fragmentation (horizontal centrality). A panel analysis concerning all 26 Swiss cantons (from 1990 to 2003) shows that public expenditure per capita increases with the number of inhabitants of a canton. This holds for the aggregate expenditure level and...
Institution partenaire
ger / 02/08/2017
Costly institutions as substitutes: novelty and limits of the Coasian approach
One of the main contributions of Ronald H. Coase was to demonstrate how mainstream economics was based on a contradictory amalgam of costly physical inputs and free institutional resources, and to give origin to the economics of institutions: each institution is a mode of allocation and organization of economic resources that is to be investigated. In particular, none of the...
Institution partenaire
English / 02/08/2017
Fédéralisme, coordination et harmonisation fiscales Etude du cas suisse
1. CHAPITRE PRELIMINAIRE 1.1 Introduction Cette étude a pour objet les problèmes de coordination et d'harmonisation fiscales dans un système fédéral. Pris au sens général, la coordination et l'harmonisation fiscales se réfèrent à l'ensemble des mesures permettant de passer d'un système fiscal épars à un système uniforme, puis unifié. Par système fiscal épars, on entend un système...
Institution partenaire
English / 02/08/2017
Gender gaps in policy making: evidence from direct democracy in Switzerland
This paper uses a unique data set on individual voting decisions to shed new light on gender gaps in policy making. Our analysis focuses on Switzerland, the world leader in direct democracy, where all citizens directly decide on a broad range of policies at the ballot box. Analysing all federal votes held between 1981 and 2003, we show that there are large gender gaps in the areas of...
Institution partenaire
English / 02/08/2017
Positional goods and Robert Lee Hale's legal economics
The legal realist Robert Lee Hale offered a definition of freedom as a zero-sum game: each volitional freedom implies some degree of coercion over other people's freedom, and at the same time one's freedom is subject to some degree of control and coercion by others. The objective of our work is to develop this idea along with the theory of positional goods. This allows us to...
Institution partenaire
English / 02/08/2017
Wer ist der beste Formel 1 Fahrer? Eine ökonometrische Talentbewertung
Who is the best Formula 1 driver? Until today it was impossible to answer this question because the observable performance of a driver depends both on his talent and the quality of his cars. In this article we separate for the first time driver talent from car quality by econometrically analyzing data for 57 years of Formula 1 racing. Our estimates also control for the number of...
Institution partenaire
ger / 02/08/2017
The determinants of food choice
Health nudge interventions to steer people into healthier lifestyles are increasingly applied by governments worldwide, and it is natural to look to such approaches to improve health by altering what people choose to eat. However, to produce policy recommendations that are likely to be effective, we need to be able to make valid predictions about the consequences of proposed...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/08/2017
Corruption and cooperation
Corruption is a widespread phenomenon. Nevertheless, causal evidence on the effects of corruption is still lacking. In this paper, we assess whether and how corruption affects cooperation using a public good game experiment. Overall, contributions to the public good are reduced by 30% when participants have the possibility to bribe the punishment authority. Two concurrent channels...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/08/2017
Overcoming therapeutic inertia in multiple sclerosis care: a pilot randomized trial applying the traffic light system in medical education
Background: Physicians often do not initiate or intensify treatments when clearly warranted, a phenomenon known as therapeutic inertia (TI). Limited information is available on educational interventions to ameliorate knowledge-to-action gaps in TI.
Objectives: To evaluate the feasibility and efficacy of an educational intervention compared to usual care among practicing...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/08/2017
The neurobiology of trust and cooperation: the important role of emotions
Institution partenaire
English / 01/08/2017
A causal account of the brain network computations underlying strategic social behavior
During competitive interactions, humans have to estimate the impact of their own actions on their opponent's strategy. Here we provide evidence that neural computations in the right temporoparietal junction (rTPJ) and interconnected structures are causally involved in this process. By combining inhibitory continuous theta-burst transcranial magnetic stimulation with model-based...
Institution partenaire
English / 10/07/2017
Reducing child mortality in the last mile: a randomized social entrepreneurship intervention in Uganda
The delivery of basic health products and services remains abysmal in many parts of the world where child mortality is high. This paper shows the results from a largescale randomized evaluation of a novel “social entrepreneurship” approach to health care delivery. In randomly selected villages a sales agent was locally recruited and incentivized to conduct home visits, educate...
Institution partenaire
English / 06/07/2017
Female market work, tax regimes, and the rise of the service sector
US regional variation shows a positive correlation between the size of the service economy and female market hours, which is partially driven by different tax regimes. Based on this fact, this paper develops a multi-sector model to: (1) quantify the effect of different tax regimes in incentivizing woman to enter the labor force, and (2) estimate the feedback effect from women...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/07/2017
Networks in conflict: theory and evidence from the Great War of Africa
We study from both a theoretical and an empirical perspective how a network of military alliances and enmities affects the intensity of a conflict. The model combines elements from network theory and from the politico-economic theory of conflict. We obtain a closed-form characterization of the Nash equilibrium. Using the equilibrium conditions, we perform an empirical analysis using...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/07/2017
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