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Oil price pass-through into inflation: the evidence from oil exporting countries
This paper evaluates different channels of oil price pass through into inflation for the countries Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Russia. We propose a methodology to disentangle the effects of different channels after an oil price shock hits international markets. We measure the relative importance of the two distinct channels through which oil price shocks are transmitted into inflation...
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
/ 10/03/2016
Essays on the organizational consequences of on-line behavior of audiences
Over the past 2 decades, internet use has become increasingly more a part of our every-day lives. We communicate with our friends and colleagues using the internet, we work using the internet, we also shop using the internet. We learn and increase our knowledge from information available on the internet. While on the one hand, we advance from the instant access to online contexts...
Institution partenaire
English / 08/03/2016
Female expatriates in the French speaking part of Switzerland: a focus on adjustment and work-life experiences
Institution partenaire
English / 23/02/2016
Three essays on financial economics of banking:: bank diversification, asset returns, and earnings management
Institution partenaire
English / 23/02/2016
Retombées économiques de l'aide publique au développement en Suisse: étude 2014
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
English / 22/02/2016
Reference price formation for product innovations: the role of consistent price-value-relationships
When deciding between product alternatives, consumers have to compare the observed prices to their internal reference price to determine whether the offer is a good deal or not. For product innovations, for which no reference price has been established, it is unclear against which standard the observed price is compared. Despite extensive research on the use of reference prices,...
Institution partenaire
English / 19/02/2016
Wer Subsistenzwirtschaft betreibt, hat nichts für die Börse übrig.
Institution partenaire
Deutsch / 14/02/2016
Wer die Zocker bekämpft, macht sich zum Handlanger der Abzocker
Institution partenaire
Deutsch / 14/02/2016
Corporate mobility: Impacts on life domains and implications for work-life balance of international business travelers and expatriates
In my dissertation I aim to explore the impacts of work-related mobility on job, family life and personal well-being of the travelling employees. To do so, three studies have been conducted with the purpose to investigate business travel behavioral patterns and impacts of work-related mobility on various life domains of the three segments, namely frequent corporate business...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/02/2016
The role of biotechnology in combating climate change: A question of politics?
Biotechnology is a platform technology that may significantly contribute to climate change mitigation and adaptation. Yet biotechnology is hardly ever referred to as a ‘clean technology’. This paper investigates why biotechnology tends to be ignored in this context. A global stakeholder survey on biotechnology and climate change was conducted with 55 representatives of 44...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/02/2016
Braving the waves: the role of time and risk preferences in illegal migration from Senegal
This paper aims to provide the first evidence concerning the relationship between time ans risk preferences and illegal migration in an African context. Based upon our theoretical model and using a unique data set on potential migrants collected in urban Senegal, we evaluate a measure of time and risk preferences through the individual's intertemporal discount rate and coefficient of...
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
Français, English / 15/01/2016
Forget "Unlearning": How an empirically unwarranted concept was allegedly imported from psychology to flourish in management and organisation studies
We provide a critique of the development in organisation studies of the idea of ‘unlearning’ as allegedly imported from the psychology literature by Hedberg and understood to mean the manageable discard of knowledge precedent to and aiding later learning. We re-review the psychology literature and in contrast to Hedberg, find that this definition of unlearning is not empirically...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2016
Lipschitz and Hölder stability of optimization problems and generalized equations
This paper studies stability aspects of solutions of parametric mathematical programs and generalized equations, respectively, with disjunctive constraints. We present sufficient conditions that, under some constraint qualifications ensuring metric subregularity of the constraint mapping, continuity results of upper Lipschitz and upper Hölder type, respectively, hold. Furthermore, we...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2016
Vergleichsgruppen Schweizer Unternehmen - eine empirische Analyse
Institution partenaire
Deutsch / 01/01/2016
Schweizer Leitfaden zum Internen Kontrollsystem (IKS) (7. Auflage)
Institution partenaire
Deutsch / 01/01/2016
Human resource management and radical innovation: a fuzzy-set QCA of US multinationals in Germany, Switzerland, and the UK
This paper explores, based on the varieties-of-capitalism approach, configurations of key human resource management practices that explain radical innovation in subsidiaries. A fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis is conducted with data for 69 subsidiaries of US-based MNEs in Germany, Switzerland, and the UK. Contrary to the implications of the varieties-of-capitalism...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2016
Effectiveness of Social Media Communication - An Empirical Analysis of Key Performance Drivers
Despite the fact that most companies have embraced social media as part of the mar-keting mix, there still remains a significant lack of knowledge as to what drives com-munication effectiveness in this new kind of peer-to-peer environment where tradi-tional, well-settled marketing communication paradigms like domination and control do show their limits. Accordingly, corporate...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2016
EFI-Jahresgutachten 2016 "Forschung, Innovation und technologische Leistungsfähigkeit Deutschlands"
Institution partenaire
Deutsch / 01/01/2016
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