infonet-economy

This paper analyses the determinants of firm participation in the Swiss COVID-19 loan programme, which aims to bridge firms' liquidity shortfalls that have resulted from the pandemic. State guaranteed COVID-19 loans are widely used by Swiss firms, with 20% of all firms participating, resulting in a sizeable programme of 2.4% of GDP. We use a complete firm-level dataset to study the...

Lin, Jian-Hong; Primicerio, Kevin; Squartini, Tiziano; Decker, Christian; Tessone, Claudio J (2020). Lightning network: a second path towards centralisation of the Bitcoin economy. New Journal of Physics, 22(8):083022.

Li, Hao; Li, Jinlin; Dietl, Helmut (2020). A novel decision making approach for benchmarking the service quality of smart community health centers. IEEE Access, 8:209904-209914.

Liu, Hui; Yang, Naiding; Yang, Zhao; Zhang, Yanlu; Li, Ruimeng (2020). Using combined network-based approaches to analyze risk interactions in R&D alliance. Journal of the Operational Research Society:Epub ahead of print.

Mittelbach-Hörmanseder, Stéphanie; Hummel, Katrin; Rammerstorfer, Margarethe (2020). The information content of corporate social responsibility disclosure in Europe: an institutional perspective. European Accounting Review:Epub ahead of print.

We study Switzerland's weak growth during the 1990s through the lens of the business cycle accounting framework of Chari, Kehoe, and McGrattan (2007). Our main result is that weak productivity growth cannot account for the stagnation experienced during that time. Rather, the stagnation is explained by factors that made labour and investment expensive. We show that increased labour...

Eberle, Reto. Unternehmenskultur und Vertrauen sind essenzielle Erfolgsfaktoren in der Krise: Interview mit Regula Wallimann, Leiterin des Audit Committee der Adecco Gruppe und der Straumann Gruppe. In: Board Leadership News, 4, 2020, p.1-4.

Tuor, Simone; Backes-Gellner, Uschi (2020). Educational diversity and individual pay: The advantages of combining academic and VET graduates in the workplace. Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training, 12:13.

Eberle, Reto. Career goal: Member of the Board of Directors: Interview with Ms Monika Krüsi, Chair of the Board of Directors, Repower. In: Board Leadership News, 2019, p.1-5.