Publications des institutions partenaires
Une revue des dynamiques de sécurisation des migrations et leurs concrétisations dans le contrôle des migrants à Genève
Une revue des dynamiques de sécurisation des migrations et leurs concrétisations dans le contrôle des migrants à Genève
Institution partenaire
Français / 01/01/2019
Political theory and the metaphysics of the self: Outline of a model-based approach
Political theory and the metaphysics of the self: Outline of a model-based approach
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2019
"Je manifeste ou je vote?" Analyse des actions politiques formelles et informelles en Suisse
"Je manifeste ou je vote?" Analyse des actions politiques formelles et informelles en Suisse.
Institution partenaire
Français / 01/01/2019
Congrès américain et aide étrangère: L'influence de l'idéologie sur l'allocation de l'aide dans /es secteurs de la santé et de l'éducation depuis 1991
Congrès américain et aide étrangère: L'influence de l'idéologie sur l'allocation de l'aide dans /es secteurs de la santé et de l'éducation depuis 1991
Institution partenaire
Français / 01/01/2019
The role of bounded rationality and imperfect information in subgame perfect implementation - an empirical investigation
In this paper we conduct a laboratory experiment to test the extent to which Moore and Repullo’s subgame perfect implementation mechanism induces truth-telling, both in a setting with perfect information and in a setting where buyers and sellers face a small amount of uncertainty regarding the good’s value. We find that Moore–Repullo mechanisms fail to implement truth-telling in a...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/02/2018
The dynamics of norm formation and norm decay
Social norms are a ubiquitous feature of social life and pervade almost every aspect of human social interaction. However, despite their importance we still have relatively little empirical knowledge about the forces that drive the formation, the maintenance and the decay of social norms. In particular, our knowledge about how norms affect behavior and how norm obedience and...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/02/2018
Efficient weighting: a more powerful test for cross-sectional anomalies
Many researchers seek factors that predict the cross-section of stock returns. The standard methodology sorts stocks according to their factor scores into quantiles and forms a corresponding long-short portfolio. Such a course of action ignores any information on the covariance matrix of stock returns. Historically, it has been difficult to estimate the covariance matrix for a large...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/02/2018
Voluntary disclosure in unfair contests
This paper studies incentives for the interim voluntary disclosure of verifiable information in probabilistic all-pay contests. Considered are unfair contests, i.e., contests in which, subject to activity conditions, one player (the favorite) is interim always more likely to win than the other player (the underdog). A condition is identified that ensures that a given contest is...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/02/2018
Ventral striatal dysfunction and symptom expression in individuals with schizotypal personality traits and early psychosis
Striatal abnormalities play a crucial role in the pathophysiology of schizophrenia. Growing evidence suggests an association between aberrant striatal activity during reward anticipation and symptom dimensions in schizophrenia. However, it is not clear whether this holds across the psychosis continuum. The aim of the present study was to investigate alterations of ventral striatal...
Institution partenaire
English / 13/01/2018
Balanced bootstrap joint confidence bands for structural impulse response functions
Constructing joint confidence bands for structural impulse response functions based on a VAR model is a difficult task because of the non-linear nature of such functions. We propose new joint confidence bands that cover the entire true structural impulse response function up to a chosen maximum horizon with a prespecified probability (1 − α), at least asymptotically. Such bands are...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2018
In the Shadow of Sunshine Regulation: Considering Disclosure Biases
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2018
Democratic epistemology and democratic morality: the appeal and challenges of peircean pragmatism
Does the wide distribution of political power in democracies, relative to other modes of government, result in better decisions? Specifically, do we have any reason to believe that they are better qualitatively – more reasoned, better supported by the available evidence, more deserving of support – than those which have been made by other means? In order to answer this question we...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2018
A computationally efficient framework for automatic inertial sensor calibration
The calibration of (low-cost) inertial sensors has become increasingly important over the past years since their use has grown exponentially in many applications going from unmanned aerial vehicle navigation to 3D-animation. However, this calibration procedure is often quite problematic since the signals issued from these sensors have a complex spectral structure and the methods...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2018
Money vs. time: family income, maternal labor supply, and child development
We study the effect of family income and maternal hours worked on child development. Our instrumental variable analysis suggests different results for cognitive and behavioral development. An additional 1,000 USD in family income improves cognitive development by 4.4 percent of a standard deviation but has no effect on behavioral development. A yearly increase of 100 work hours...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2018
Does altruism matter for remittances?
We provide a direct test of the impact of altruism on remittances. From a sample of Indian migrant workers in Qatar, we elicit the propensity to share with others from their responses in a dictator game and use it as a proxy for altruism. For the entire sample, we find that altruism does not seem to matter. However, we document a strong positive relationship between altruism and...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2018
Redefine statistical significance
We propose to change the default P-value threshold for statistical significance from 0.05 to 0.005 for claims of new discoveries.
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2018
Citizens and the crisis: The Great recession as constraint and opportunity
We discuss a number of issues addressed in the volume. In particular, after an introduction about the capacity for resilience shown by European citizens, we summarize the volume’s content in terms of the economic crisis posing constraints to citizens, but also as opening up opportunities for change. Additionally, we discuss the intertwining of the economic and the political...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2018
Demand forces of technical change evidence from the Chinese manufacturing industry
This paper investigates the effct of domestic market size on innovation activities across different durable good industries in the Chinese manufacturing sector. We address the endogeneity of market size by an IV strategy, based on a measure of potential market size, which is driven only by changes in the Chinese income distribution. This measure is exogenous to changes in prices and...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2018
Unemployment insurance and the labor market
The existing literature assumes that unemployment insurance (UI) affects the labor market through the job finding rate of eligible workers. I argue that this focus is too narrow. I show evidence for UI effects through three other margins: (i) search externalities; (ii) takeup of other welfare state programs; and (iii) job separations. This suggests that the analysis of optimal UI...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2018
Citizens and the crisis: Experiences, perceptions, and responses to the great recession in Europe
This volume presents evidence-based research on citizens’ experiences and reactions to the Great Recession in Europe. How did European citizen experience and react to the crisis? How are the experiences of crisis and political responses socially differentiated? Are some social classes and more deprived groups particularly hard hit? How did the crisis impact on political choices? What...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2018
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