Publications des institutions partenaires
Macroeconomic risk in exchange rates: three empirical essays
This introductory umbrella chapter interlinks the three essays of this dissertation thesis and explains their stance towards the economic discipline. The essays focus on two key exchange rate puzzles, which are the forward premium puzzle of Fama (1984) and the consumption real exchange rate correlation puzzle of Backus and Smith (1993). As regards the first puzzle, this thesis...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/10/2016
Essays in behavioral economics: experimental studies on morals and cooperation
Institution partenaire
English / 01/10/2016
Partial adaptation of obtained and observed value signals preserves information about gains and losses
Given that the range of rewarding and punishing outcomes of actions is large but neural coding capacity is limited, efficient processing of outcomes by the brain is necessary. One mechanism to increase efficiency is to rescale neural output to the range of outcomes expected in the current context, and process only experienced deviations from this expectation. However, this mechanism...
Institution partenaire
English / 28/09/2016
Vom Mutterleib zum Arbeitsmarkt : ökonomische Erkenntnisse
Eine gesunde Schwangerschaft und frühkindliche Interventionen verringern ökonomische Ungleichheit. Wie, erklärt der Ökonom Hannes Schwandt, der von Princeton an die Uni Zürich gewechselt ist.
Institution partenaire
Deutsch / 28/09/2016
Statuswettbewerb und Privatkonkurs
Der Wettlauf der Eitelkeiten kann zu einer höheren kollektiven Wirtschaftsleistung führen. Er kann die Menschen aber auch unglücklich machen und zu fahrlässigem Konsum verleiten.
Institution partenaire
Deutsch / 27/09/2016
Die Automatisierung der Arbeit
Der Einsatz von Maschinen, Computern und Robotern hat nicht zu einem deutlichen Rückgang der Beschäftigung geführt. Hingegen spaltet sich der Arbeitsmarkt in gut und schlecht bezahlte Berufe.
Institution partenaire
Deutsch / 14/09/2016
Bilateral trade with loss-averse agents
We study the bilateral trade problem put forward by Myerson and Satterthwaite (1983) under the assumption that agents are loss-averse, using the model developed by Kőszegi and Rabin (2006, 2007). We show that the endowment effect increases the sellers information rent, and that the attachment effect reduces the buyer’s information rent. Further, depending on the distribution of types...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/09/2016
Designing dynamic research contests
This paper considers the optimal design of dynamic research contests when the buyer can set time-dependent prizes. We derive the buyer-optimal contest and show that it entails an increasing prize schedule. Remarkably, this allows the buyer to implement a global stopping rule. In particular, the optimal contest attains the first-best. More generally, we show that global stopping rules...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/09/2016
The China shock: learning from labor market adjustment to large changes in trade
China’s emergence as a great economic power has induced an epochal shift in patterns of world trade. Simultaneously, it has challenged much of the received empirical wisdom about how labor markets adjust to trade shocks. Alongside the heralded consumer benefits of expanded trade are substantial adjustment costs and distributional consequences. These impacts are most visible in the...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/09/2016
A global view of productivity growth in China
How does a country's productivity growth affect worldwide real incomes through international trade? In this paper, we take this classic question to the data by measuring the spillover effects of China's productivity growth. Using a quantitative trade model, we first estimate China's productivity growth between 1995 and 2007 and then isolate what would have happened to...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/09/2016
Wir müssen möglichst alle Menschen in den Prozess der Leistungserstellung integrieren
Ein Gespräch mit Josef Falkinger über Ungleichheit, Teilhabe und Gerechtigkeit, die gesellschaftliche Bedeutung eines gemeinsamen Fortschrittsprojekts und ökonomische Macht.
Institution partenaire
Deutsch / 01/09/2016
Importing political polarization? The electoral consequences of rising trade exposure
Has rising trade integration between the U.S. and China contributed to the polarization of U.S. politics? Analyzing outcomes from the 2002 and 2010 congressional elections, we detect an ideological realignment that is centered in trade-exposed local labor markets and that commences prior to the divisive 2016 U.S. presidential election. Exploiting the exogenous component of rising...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/09/2016
Turning a blind eye, but not the other cheek: On the robustness of costly punishment
The willingness to punish norm violation is an important component of many legal and social institutions, and much prior research demonstrates an apparent willingness to incur costs to punish individuals who act unfairly. But, will people rely on “excuses” to get out of having to act on costly punishment intentions, as they do with other costly pro-social acts? And how may the answer...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/08/2016
Informational requirements of nudging
A nudge is a paternalistic government intervention that attempts to improve choices by changing the framing of a decision problem. We propose a welfare- theoretic foundation for nudging similar in spirit to the classical revealed preference approach, by investigating a model where preferences and mistakes of an agent can be elicited from her choices under different frames. We provide...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/08/2016
Preaching water but drinking wine? Relative performance evaluation in international banking
Relative performance evaluation (RPE) is, at least on paper, enjoying widespread popularity in determining the level of executive compensation. Yet existing empirical evidence of RPE is decidedly mixed. Two principal explanations are held responsible for this discord. A constructional challenge arises from intricacies of identifying the correct peers. And on a simpler note, corporate...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/08/2016
Targeted information and limited attention
We study targeted information in a duopoly model with differentiated products, allowing for consumers with limited attention. The presence of inattentive consumers incentivizes firms to behave as if they were mass-advertisers, despite their ability to direct their mes- sages precisely towards consumers with the strongest preferences. We show that the scope for targeting as an...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/08/2016
Cooperation and mistrust in relational contracts
Work and trade relationships are often governed by relational contracts, in which incentives for cooperative action today stem from the prospective future benefits of the relationship. In this paper, we study how reductions in clarity about the financial consequences of actions, induced by incomplete information about the costs of providing quality, affect relational contracts in...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/08/2016
Mental capabilities, trading styles, and asset market bubbles: theory and experiment
We propose that heterogeneous asset trading behavior is the result of two distinct, non-convertible mental dimensions: analytical (“quantitative”) capability and mentalizing (“perspective-taking”) capability. We develop a framework of mental capabilities that yields testable predictions about individual trading behavior, revenue distribution and aggregate outcomes. The two-...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/08/2016
Capital taxation under political constraints
This paper studies optimal dynamic tax policy under the threat of political reform. A policy will be reformed ex post if a large enough coalition of citizens supports reform; thus, sustainable policies are those that will continue to attract enough political support in the future. We find that optimal marginal capital taxes are either progressive or U-shaped, so that savings are...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/08/2016
Italien droht ein Chaos
Die Regierung von Matteo Renzi gerät durch die Bankenkrise sowie die Oppositionspartei des Komikers Beppe Grillo unter Druck. Ein Wahlsieg Grillos hätte fatale Konsequenzen.
Institution partenaire
Deutsch / 23/07/2016
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