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Wahlen und Abstimmungen im Verein

In den meisten Vereinen wird alljährlich eine Hauptversammlung durchgeführt. Dabei gibt es sehr oft Diskussionen über die Durchführung von Abstimmungen und Wahlen. Dies ist auf die minimale gesetzliche Regelung und die teilweise schwer verständlichen Statutenbestimmungen zurückzuführen. Der nachfolgende Beitrag soll deshalb eine Hilfe bei derartigen Fragen sein. Die Aufbewahrung...

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Deutsch / 15/02/2004

"... brauchen neue Gesellschaftsidee" ("Thema: Top-Saläre")

Passen die Milliardengewinne einiger Schweizer Konzerne sowie die erheblich gestiegenen Millionenbezüge der obersten Chefst noch mit der Tatsache zusammen, dass dieselben Firmen im vergangenen Jahr (2003) teilweise mehrere tausend Stellen abgebaut und Mitarbeitende entlassen haben? Über kurz oder lang wird sich ein anderes gesellshaftliches Rollenverständnis und eine weniger...

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Deutsch / 11/02/2004

Zur Filterleistung von Hochschulsystemen - Bildungswege von Topmanagern in den USA, Frankreich und Deutschland

Starting with Arrow's hypothesis that higher education is a filter, the paper studies three alternative filter-designs. These designs can be attributed to the higher education systems of three different countries: In the U.S., competition between schools not only leads to a stable and stratified hierarchy of schools but also validates the degrees issued by these schools. In...

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Deutsch / 01/02/2004

The Transfer Paradox and Sunspot Equilibria

This paper tests the effect of a matching mechanism on donations in a controlled fieldnexperiment. We match the donations of students at the University of Zurich who, each semester, have to decide whether they wish to contribute to two Social Funds. Our results support thenhypothesis that a matching mechanism increases contributions to a public good. However, the effect depends on...

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English / 01/02/2004

Is Volunteering Rewarding in Itself?

Volunteering constitutes one of the most important pro-social activities.nFollowing Adam Smith, helping others is the way to higher individual well-being. This viewncontrasts with the selfish utility maximizer who avoids costs from helping others. The twonrival views are studied empirically. We find robust evidence that volunteers are morensatisfied with their life than non-...

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English / 01/02/2004

Matching Donations - Subsidizing Charitable Giving in a Field Experiment

This paper tests the effect of a matching mechanism on donations in a controlled fieldnexperiment. We match the donations of students at the University of Zurich who, each semester,nhave to decide whether they wish to contribute to two Social Funds. Our results support thenhypothesis that a matching mechanism increases contributions to a public good. However, theneffect depends on...

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English / 01/02/2004

Heterogeneity, Local Information, and Global Interaction

"Consider a society where all agents initially play fair"" and one agentninvents a cheating"" strategy such as doping in sports. Which factorsndetermine the success of the new cheating strategy? In order to studynthis question we consider an evolutionary game with heterogenous agentsnwho can either play fair or cheat. We model heterogeneity by assumingnthat...

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English / 01/02/2004

Weddings with Uncertain Prospects Mergers under Asymmetric Information

We provide a framework for analyzing bilateral mergers when there is two-sided asymmetric information about firms’ types. We show that there is always a "no-merger" equilibrium where firms do not consent to a merger, irrespective of their type. There may also be a "cut-off" equilibrium if the expected merger returns satisfy a suitable single crossing condition,...

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English / 01/02/2004

Finite sample properties of propensity-score matching and weighting estimators

In this paper the finite-sample properties of matching and weighting estimators, often used for estimating average treatment effects, are analyzed. Potential and feasible precision gains relative to pair-matching are examined. Local linear matching (with and without trimming), k-nearest neighbour matching, and particularly the weighting estimators performed worst. Ridge matching, on...

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English / 01/02/2004

Developing an immigration policy for Germany on the basis of a nonparametric labor market classification

Based on a nonparametrically estimated model of labor market classifications, this paper makes suggestions for immigration policy using data from western Germany in the 1990s. It is demonstrated that nonparametric regression is feasible in higher dimensions with only a few thousand observations. In sum, labor markets able to absorb immigrants are characterized by above average age...

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English / 01/02/2004

Zivilisierte Unternehmensführung : "Anfangsidee" und Orientierungsfunktion republikanisch-liberaler Unternehmensethik

In persönlicher und sachlicher Verbundenheit führen Prof. Horst Steinmann (Nürnberg) und Prof. Peter Ulrich (St. Gallen) seit über 20 Jahren eine wechselseitig fruchtbare Debatte über die Begründung und Ausgestaltung moderner Unternehmensethik. Der "Nürnberger" und der "St. Galler" Ansatz teilen trotz keineswegs unwesentlicher Unterschiede sowohl das allgemeine...

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Deutsch / 01/02/2004

Ist das Bankgeheimnis verfassungswürdig?

Der kurze Presseartikel entlarvt fünf gängige Schutzbehauptungen zur Verteidigung des Bankgeheimnisses in seiner spezifischen schweizerischen Form und macht fünf konkrete Vorschläge für eine ethisch und ökonomisch zukunftsfähige Politik des Schweizer Finanzplatzes.

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Deutsch / 13/01/2004

Die Entwicklung des St.Galler Management-Modells

Die Entwicklung der ersten drei Generationen des St.Galler Management-Modells ist eng mit dem Institut für Betriebswirtschaft der Universität St.Gallen (IfB-HSG) verbunden. Die erste Generation prägte Prof. Hans Ulrich, zugleich Gründer des Instituts im Jahre 1954. Die zweite Generation hat Prof. Knut Bleicher vorangetrieben, der das IfB von 1984-1994 leitete. Die dritte Generation...

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Deutsch / 05/01/2004

Health care reform and the number of doctor visits - an econometric analysis

This paper evaluates the German health care reform of 1997, using the individual number of doctor visits as outcome measure and data from the German Socio-Economic Panel for the years 1995–1999. A number of modified count data models allow us to estimate the effect of the reform in different parts of the distribution. The overall effect of the reform was a 10% reduction in the number...

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English / 01/01/2004

Reexamining drug regulation from the perspective of innovation policy: comment

This is a very colorful paper that makes for interesting reading. The author shows that the U. S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) increasingly does not decide about market access to drugs only, but influences the innovation process as a whole. And although "information" does not appear in the title of the paper, the distribution of knowledge as affected by the FDA plays...

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English / 01/01/2004

Competition in health care - the Swiss experience

The objective of this contribution is to evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of the Swiss health care system after the new Law on Health Insurance (LHI) that took effect at the beginning of 1996. The LHI just barely survived a popular referendum. An important argument of the campaign in its favor had been that health insurance premiums would fall thanks to increased competition...

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English / 01/01/2004

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