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Political coalitions, face-to-face interactions, and the public sphere: An examination of the determinants of repression with protest event data
In this paper we focus on the handling by the police of mass demonstrations in Switzerland during the past three decades. Our aim is to single out the determinants of police intervention during these protest events. We look at three sets of potential causes: (1) the configuration of power (i.e. political alliances and coalitions), (2) face-to-face interactions between protesters and...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/1998
Contentious politics in complex societies: New social movements between conflict and cooperation
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/1998
From contention to democracy
From Contention to Democracy addresses a crucial aspect of contemporary societies: the role of social movements for political and social change. The volume gathers together essays written by prominent social theorists who have been asked to reflect on the relationship between movements and processes of social, political and cultural change. Three broad types of movement-change nexus...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/1998
Social movements and institutional change: Intended consequence or by-product?
Social movements can have an impact on institutions by aiming explicitly at institutional change or by pursuing policy goals. In the former situation, their chances of success depends on factors internal and external to the movements. In the latter situation, the contribution of policy-oriented movements to institutional reform can be seen as a by-product of their action. A process...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/1998
Social movements and change: Incorporation, transformation, and democratization
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/1998
On the asymptotic convergence to mixed equilibria in 2×2 asymmetric games
We analyse the stability properties of mixed equilibria in 2×2 asymmetric games under evolutionary dynamics. With the standard replicator dynamics these equilibria are stable but not asymptotically stable. We modified the replicator dynamics by introducing players of two types: myopies — like in the standard replicator dynamics — and best
responders. The behaviour of the latter...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/12/1997
Ein Pool-Modell für die schweizerische Elektrizitätswirtschaft
Institution partenaire
English / 01/11/1997
The impact of income inequality on product diversity and long-run economic growth in a model with hierarchical demand
The paper presents an empirical analysis of a model of endogenous growth and innovation with unequal incomes and hierarchical consumer demand. The theoretical model predicts a positive impact of income inequality on product diversity. The impact of inequality on per-capita growth may be positive or negative depending upon the assumptions about productivity growth, where the standard...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/10/1997
Why are the unemployed so unhappy? Evidence from panel data
This paper tests for the importance of non-pecuniary costs of unemployment using a longitudinal data-set on life-satisfaction of working-age men in Germany. We show that unemployment has a large detrimental effect on satisfaction after individual specific fixed effects are controlled for. The non-pecuniary effect is much larger than the effect that stems from the associated loss of...
Institution partenaire
English / 22/01/1997
Comment on: F.M. Scherer, "How US antitrust can go astray: the brand name prescription drug litigation"
Comments on the article `How US Antirust Can Go Astray: The Brand Name Prescription Drug Litigation,' by F.M. Scherer. Discussion of the issue of patent protection; Uniform monopoly price; Summary of price differentiation between groups of consumers.
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/1997
How young workers get their training: A survey of Germany versus the United States
The recent economic literature on the incidence of various forms of post-secondary on-the-job and off-the-job training in Germany and the United States, as well as on the effects of training on wages, inequality, and labor mobility is surveyed. Young workers in Germany receive substantially more company-based (apprenticeship) training than United States workers. In the United States...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/1997
European Economic Area and Switzerland - EU Bilateral Agreements in Comparative Perspective : What Lessons?
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/1997
Communication Messengers as a Basis for Distributed Algorithms
The messenger paradigm is one of the earliest models which propose the exchange of code to implement computer communication. Code becomes mobile and mobile code is now considered a promising alternative for the implementation of distributed applications. One application of mobile code is in the implementation of software agents which themselves are used to implement complex...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/1997
An embedding result for generalized Orlicz-Sobolev spaces
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/1997
Embeddedness, power, control and innovation in the telecommunications sector
In the present paper, relationships between embeddedness, power, control and innovation are examined in the context ofthe telecommunications sector. It is contended that in a tightly embedded, technology-intensive sector, technological and economic control are closeb intertwined. Consequently, the ability to appropriate economic rents is large& based on technological control. In...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/1997
Adaptive methods in macroeconomic forecasting
Adaptive methods are used to forecast three main Austrian economic indicators. We use a weighted recursive model as well as a neural network approach both with and without adaptive characteristics and compare our results to the forecasts of two Austrian research institutes. It appears that even models which use very limited information can outperform the two Institutes’ forcasts of...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/1997
The choice between emission taxes and output taxes under imperfect monitoring
We consider a regulator's choice between environmentally motivated emissions taxes and output taxes. We investigate how the optimal instrument depends on the monitoring cost function, the firm's technology, and on social preferences regarding output and environmental quality. Pure emissions taxes are usually not optimal with monitoring costs. Pure output taxes are optimal...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/1997
Was prometheus unbound by chance? Risk diversification and growth
This paper offers a theory of development that links the degree of market incompleteness to capital accumulation and growth. At early stages of development, the presence projects limits the degree of risk spreading (diversification) that the economy can achieve. The desire to avoid highly risky investments slows down capital accumulation, and the inability to diversify idiosyncratic...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/1997
Resistant Modelling of Income Distributions and Inequality Measures
We review the use and the interpretation of some robustness concepts and techniques in some economic applications. We focus on estimation techniques in income distribution analysis and we discuss the reliability of inequality measures.
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/1997
The cooperation between social movements and the state: Dimensions, conditions, and implications
Social movements can have an impact on institutions by aiming explicitly at institutional change or by pursuing policy goals. In the former situation, their chances of success depends on factors internal and external to the movements. In the latter situation, the contribution of policy-oriented movements to institutional reform can be seen as a by-product of their action. A process...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/1997
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