Publications des institutions partenaires
Europe and Africa: Addressing the food security challenges (Chapter 6)
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2017
Attitudes towards the role of innovation in promoting sustainable agriculture
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2017
«Embeddedness»: Einbettung von Firmen als Voraussetzung für Nachhaltigkeit
Multinationale Unternehmen, die gerade auch in weniger entwickelten Ländern investieren, sind beliebte Prügelknaben. Ihnen wird unter anderem vorgeworfen, wegen geringerer Regulierung die Umwelt zu verschmutzen, Menschenrechte zu verletzten oder von tieferen Sozialstandards auf Kosten der lokalen Belegschaft zu profitieren. Die Wirklichkeit ist komplexer. Sie zeigt: Multinationale...
Institution partenaire
Deutsch / 01/01/2017
Politik als Feind der Wissenschaft : Ein Verbot der grünen Gentechnik schadet der Schweiz
Institution partenaire
Deutsch / 17/12/2016
Business-humanitarian partnerships: processes of normative legitimation
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
English / 08/12/2016
Liquidity-driven FDI
We develop a model of foreign direct investment (FDI) in which financially liquid foreign firms acquire liquidity-constrained target firms. Using a large dataset of emerging-market acquisitions, we find evidence supporting three central predictions of the model: (i) firms in external finance dependent and intangible sectors are more likely to be targets of foreign acquisitions; (ii)...
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
English / 25/10/2016
Can countries rely on foreign saving for investment and economic development?
A surprisingly large number of countries have been able to finance a significant fraction of domestic investment using foreign finance for extended periods. While many of these episodes are in low-income countries where official finance is more important than private finance, this paper also identifies a number of episodes where a substantial fraction of domestic investment was...
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
English / 29/08/2016
Making the next billion demand access: the local content effect of google.co.za in Setswana
Recent attempts to connect the current ‘next billion’ to the Internet in places such as sub-Saharan Africa have not met expectations. In places where Internet infrastructure has come online and prices have gone down, the expected consequent increase in uptake was not observed. I develop a framework that incorporates language in the the two-sided markets framework, viewing differences...
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
English / 24/08/2016
Coping with migration-induced urban growth: addressing the blind spot of UN habitat
The demography of cities in the 21st century will be shaped, to a large extent, by migration. This paper argues that the rights-based approach to urban policy advocated in the preparatory work of Habitat III, the UN Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development to be held in October 2016 in Quito, Ecuador, may not be conducive to this goal. The approach lacks a contextual...
Institution partenaire
English / 19/08/2016
Frischluft für die Weltbank
Paul Romer hat die Grundsätze der Mainstream-Ökonomie auf den Kopf gestellt. Ob er seine Ideen als neuer Weltbank-Chefökonom in die Praxis umsetzen kann, bleibt offen. Die Widerstände sind gross.
Institution partenaire
Deutsch / 08/08/2016
When corporatism leads to corporate governance failure : the case of Swiss watch industry
Corporatism is often seen as the way Swiss stakeholders in business and politics handle industrial challenges in a reasonable and flexible way. The following publication argues, however, that the emergence of corporatist structures in the Swiss watch industry has often encouraged rent-seeking and collusion at the expense of the creation of new markets through innovation. This legacy...
Institution partenaire
English / 09/06/2016
The quest to lower high remittance costs to Africa: a brief review of the use of mobile banking and bitcoins
The paper reviews the latest technological tools that arguably can contribute to reducing the excessively high costs of remittance transactions in Africa. Indeed, despite huge remittance inflows to and within the continent, Africa is the most expensive destination to send money to. As remittances have become more important than Overseas Development Assistance and Foreign Direct...
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
English / 15/03/2016
Fire-sale FDI or business as usual?
Motivated by a set of stylized facts, we develop a model of cross-border mergers and acquisitions (M&As;) to study foreign direct investment (FDI) in emerging markets. We compare acquisitions undertaken during financial crises – so called fire-sale FDI –with acquisitions made during non-crisis periods to examine whether the outcomes differ in the ways predicted by the model....
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
English / 11/03/2016
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
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
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
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