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Commodities on the spot:
Commodity exchanges are spreading across the region. But with major obstacles to their development, are they worth the hype ?
Institution partenaire
English / 07/01/2016
Commodities on the spot
Commodity exchanges are spreading across the region. But with major obstacles to their development, are they worth the hype ?
Institution partenaire
English / 07/01/2016
Forgive and remember: : debt relief boosts growth, but only when it comes with conditions
Institution partenaire
English / 07/01/2016
Forgive and remember ::debt relief boosts growth, but only when it comes with conditions
Institution partenaire
English / 07/01/2016
Entrepreneurial finance: : a global perspective
Entrepreneurial Finance provides readers with the fundamental knowledge to finance, start, grow, and value new ventures, without the complex finance terms and calculations. This comprehensive yet practical approach incorporates a global perspective that appeals to entrepreneurs, investors, and students with diverse backgrounds, knowledge, and experience. From Facebook to Camera+,...
Institution partenaire
English / 07/01/2016
Retrieving Diverse Social Images at MediaEval 2015: : Challenge, Dataset and Evaluation
This paper provides an overview of the Retrieving Diverse Social Images task that is organized as part of the MediaEval 2015 Benchmarking Initiative for Multimedia Evaluation. The task addresses the problem of result diversification and user annotation credibility estimation in the context of social photo retrieval. We present the task challenges, the proposed data set and ground...
Institution partenaire
English / 14/12/2015
Upper secondary school transitions: : an empirical analysis
Educational choices made by 15 year olds represent a high stake moment in the Swiss highly differentiated tracked school system. This thesis thus proposes an empirical analysis of upper secondary school transitions under four different angles using exhaustive registry data for a single Swiss Canton, Geneva. Chapter 3 assesses how transition opportunities are affected (and constrained...
Institution partenaire
English / 02/12/2015
Two to tango: : trust, taxation and the economics of environmental policy
This thesis examines the question of environmental dilemmas from both a local and a global perspective. It explores the open question of cooperation in the climate commons and provides evidence in favor of a key role of trust in spurring cooperation in global dilemmas. Given the potential for cooperation in both local and global environmental dilemmas, this thesis explores the...
Institution partenaire
English / 02/12/2015
An investigation into sentiment-induced institutional trading behavior and asset pricing in the REIT market
Institutional investors such as pension funds or insurance companies commonly invest in the unsecuritized and securitized real estate market. We investigate how institutional investor sentiment in the commercial real estate market affects institutional trading behavior in the REIT market and subsequently asset pricing. In particular, we test two alternative theories - flight to...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/12/2015
HOBBiT Piotr Krasnowolski
A report on the implementation of a project Steering the meetings industry in Kraków: appraisal and monitoring of the economic influence of the meetings industry on Kraków economy, using good practice from Switzerland.
Institution partenaire
English / 30/11/2015
Can hedge fund-like returns be replicated in a regulated environment ?
Ucits were a series of directives issued by the European Commission whose aim was the facilitation of cross-border marketing and selling of collective investment schemes. This regulatory framework has recently gained popularity as an investment vehicle for hedge fund strategies. This trend can be explained in part by customers shying away from direct investments into hedge funds and...
Institution partenaire
English / 27/11/2015
Seven reasons to use carbon pricing in climate policy
The idea of a global carbon price has been a recurrent theme in debates on international climate policy. Discarded at the Conference of Parties (COP) of Copenhagen in 2009, it remained part of deliberations for a climate agreement in subsequent years. Unfortunately, there is still much misunderstanding about the reasons for implementing a global carbon price. As a result, ideological...
Institution partenaire
English / 26/11/2015
Human resource management: : the key to management innovation in manufacturing firms
There is mounting interest on all aspects related to management innovation, as evidence shows firms relying on this source of innovation are better set to cope with market competition. HRM function is deemed to play a fundamental role in securing innovative organizational activities. Yet, much research is needed to disentangle the relationship between the HRM function and this source...
Institution partenaire
English / 25/11/2015
Dimensions of employer branding: : talent attraction through entry-level HR pratices
Attracting talent is a critical way for firms to remain competitive. One of the key mechanisms is the way firms attract professionals by actively leveraging employer branding. Although scholars have suggested that a purposively designed and well publicized system of human resource (HR) best practices can impact positively on a firm’s employer branding and, as a result of it, its...
Institution partenaire
English / 25/11/2015
Internet search and hotel revenues
We examine if online information search trends reflect public interest in purchasing hotel rooms. We introduce the trends into univariate forecasting models and conventional structural models of room night stays and occupancy rates. We also examine the association between the trends and hotel REIT stock returns. We find that on a monthly frequency, search trends are significantly...
Institution partenaire
English / 25/11/2015
Sites of playing: : a practice-based perspective on organizational creativity in Haute Cuisine
Institution partenaire
English / 25/11/2015
Pay-out policies in founding family firms
This article analyses founding family influence on pay-out policies for Swiss listed firms over the period 2003–2010. We hypothesise that family firms have different incentives and characteristics that affect pay-out decisions and propose three possible explanations: agency theory, reputation building and family income needs. Our results show that founding family firms display...
Institution partenaire
English / 25/11/2015
SME internationalization and distant emerging markets access through global cities: : exploring a tentative conceptual framework
This paper suggests a tentative conceptual framework to study the internationalization of foreign/OECD - based SMEs (Small and Medium - sized Enterprises) attracted by fast growing emerging markets, such as China and Southeast Asia, and the supportive role of global cities as market gate focal points providing a wide range of financial...
Institution partenaire
English / 24/11/2015
Entrepreneurial ecosystem and regional development: : a Romanian case study
Institution partenaire
English / 22/11/2015
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