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Profits vs. impact: what can microfinance teach us?
How can the private sector work for development? This paper provides answers to this question from the firms’ perspective by examining the trade-offs that private firms face between maximizing their profits and achieving a positive social impact. In particular, it considers the experience of microfinance as the best available data source from the point of view of a firm engaged in...
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
English / 17/05/2013
Inequality, poverty and the 2010 election
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
English / 08/04/2013
Spatial and temporal aggregation in racial profiling
In the last decade, models of rational choice have chimed into the discussion on racial profiling, the use of race in stop and search decisions of the police. The models describe the behavior of motorists and the police and provide empirical tests to assess the question whether the police exhibit racial animus. However, existing studies have neglected the effect of spatial and...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/03/2013
Democratizing corporate governance: Compensating for the democratic deficit of corporate political activity and corporate citizenship
This article addresses the democratic deficit that emerges when private corporations engage in public policy, either by providing citizenship rights and global public goods (corporate citizenship) or by influencing the political
system and lobbying for their economic interests (strategic corporate political activities). This democratic deficit is significant, especially when...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2013
Marginally discriminated: the role of outcome tests in European jurisdiction
For decades, racial profiling has been subject of intense debate in US jurisdiction. Recently, outcome tests based on economic models have contributed to the legal discourse. However, it is not readily obvious if and to what extent they also pertain to European jurisdiction, where racial profiling has only as of late stirred up controversy. In a comprehensive examination of their...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2013
Nachhaltigkeit und Immobilieninvestitionen : Die finanzielle Relevanz von Nachhaltigkeit für Portfoliostrategien
Der vorliegende Bericht dokumentiert die Arbeiten im Rahmen eines Forschungsprojektes, an welchem sich Immobilien Basel-Stadt, Stadt Zürich, Liegenschaftenverwaltung, SUVA, Swisscanto Asset Management AG, Swiss Life Property Management AG, UBS Fund Management (Switzerland) AG mit Immobiliendaten und Beiträgen an den Kosten beteiligten. Die Arbeit untersucht die finanzielle Relevanz...
Institution partenaire
Deutsch / 14/12/2012
Economic Sustainability Indicator ESI(R), Überarbeitung 2011/12
Institution partenaire
Deutsch / 01/12/2012
How preferential are preferential trade agreements?: analysis of product exclusions in PTAs
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
/ 06/11/2012
International production sharing: insights from exploratory network analysis
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
/ 06/11/2012
International harmonization of carbon pricing: a proposal for the United States
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
/ 06/11/2012
Canada - certain measures affecting the renewable energy generation sector (DS412): amicus curiae submission
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
/ 06/11/2012
Finance and economic development
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
English / 18/10/2012
Is Socially Responsible Investing Really Beneficial? New Empirical Evidence for the US and European Stock Markets
This paper empirically examines the theoretically ambivalent relationship between socially responsible investing (SRI) and stock performance. It extends the existing literature by considering both the US and the entire European stock markets as well as by using consistent world-wide corporate sustainability performance data. Our portfolio analysis from 1998 to 2009 reveals the appeal...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/05/2012
Nachhaltigkeit und Wertermittlung von Immobilien : Leitfaden für Deutschland, Österreich und die Schweiz
Der Wert von Immobilien wird durch zahlreiche Faktoren bestimmt. Wesentliche Einflussgrössen sind Standortmerkmale (Lage), Grundstückseigenschaften, Gebäudemerkmale (u. a. Bauweise, Ausstattung, funktionale und technische Qualität) sowie das Marktumfeld. Weiterhin wird der Wert von Immobilien durch die Präferenzen und Wertvorstellungen beteiligter Akteure beeinflusst. Verschiedene...
Institution partenaire
Deutsch / 01/04/2012
Informational international public policy making: new international law or not international law and does it even matter?
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
/ 16/01/2012
The interface between the trade and climate change regimes: scoping the issue
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
/ 16/01/2012
Informal international public policy making: a conceptual view from international relations
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
/ 16/01/2012
Private business firms, human rights, and global governance issues: An organizational implementation perspective
We analyse the increasing engagement of business in the creation and application of self-regulatory standards in the area of human rights in the light of an emerging framework of transnational human rights initiatives. The voluntariness of most of these approaches leads to problems that are characteristic of organizational self-regulation initiatives. Our analysis will show that...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2012
Verified emissions and stock prices: Is there a Link? - An empirical analysis of the European Emissions Trading Scheme
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2012
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