Publications des institutions partenaires
Persistent and transient productive inefficiency in a regulated industry : electricity distribution
In: Energy Economics, 2018, vol. 69, p. 325-334
Institution partenaire
English / 12/02/2019
Move people or move the plant? : Business travel and relocation choices of firms
Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2018 ; 2018ECO007.
Institution partenaire
English / 12/02/2019
The role of culture in long-term care arrangement decisions
In: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2017, vol. 143, p. 186-200
Institution partenaire
English / 12/02/2019
Strategies to access and manage donations for humanitarian operations
Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2018 ; 2018ECO006.
Institution partenaire
English / 12/02/2019
Habits and rational behavior in residential electricity demand
In: Resource and Energy Economics, 2018, vol. 52, p. 137-152
Institution partenaire
English / 12/02/2019
Corporate governance issues and performance of initial public offerings
Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2018 ; 2018ECO005.
Institution partenaire
English / 12/02/2019
Understanding the effects of communication and engagement in a social marketing intervention on children’s eating behavior : design, measurement and evaluation
Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2017 ; 2017COM014.
Institution partenaire
English / 12/02/2019
What drives the rise of antidepressant consumption? Evidence from Switzerland
What drives the rise of antidepressant consumption? Evidence from Switzerland
Masiero, Giuliano ; Mazzonna, Fabrizio...
Institution partenaire
English / 11/02/2019
Abandon ship? : party brands and politicians’ responses to a political scandal
Abandon ship? : party brands and politicians’ responses to a political scandal
Daniele, Gianmarco ; Galletta, Sergio...
Institution partenaire
English / 11/02/2019
A productive clash of cultures: Injecting economics into leadership research
Research on leadership in economics has developed in parallel to the literature in management and psychology and links between the fields have been sparse. Whereas modern leadership scholars mostly focus on transformational and related leadership styles, economists have mainly emphasized the role of contracts, control rights, and incentives. We argue that both fields could profit...
Institution partenaire
English / 28/02/2018
Seeking the roots of entrepreneurship: Insights from behavioral economics
There is a growing body of evidence that many entrepreneurs seem to enter and persist in entrepreneurship despite earning low risk-adjusted returns. This has lead to attempts to provide explanations—using both standard economic theory and behavioral economics—for why certain individuals may be attracted to such an apparently unprofitable activity. Drawing on research in behavioral...
Institution partenaire
English / 28/02/2018
The Lure of Authority: Motivation and Incentive Effects of Power
Authority and power permeate political, social, and economic life, but empirical knowledge about the motivational origins and consequences of authority is limited. We study the motivation and incentive effects of authority experimentally in an authority delegation game. Individuals often retain authority even when its delegation is in their material interest—suggesting that authority...
Institution partenaire
English / 19/02/2018
The intrinsic value of decision rights
Philosophers, psychologists, and economists have long argued that certain decision rights carry not only instrumental value but may also be valuable for their own The ideas of autonomy, freedom, and liberty derive their intuitive appeal - partly - from an assumed positive intrinsic value of decision rights. Providing evidence for the existence of this intrinsic value and...
Institution partenaire
English / 19/02/2018
The role of bounded rationality and imperfect information in subgame perfect implementation - an empirical investigation
In this paper we conduct a laboratory experiment to test the extent to which Moore and Repullo’s subgame perfect implementation mechanism induces truth-telling, both in a setting with perfect information and in a setting where buyers and sellers face a small amount of uncertainty regarding the good’s value. We find that Moore–Repullo mechanisms fail to implement truth-telling in a...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/02/2018
The dynamics of norm formation and norm decay
Social norms are a ubiquitous feature of social life and pervade almost every aspect of human social interaction. However, despite their importance we still have relatively little empirical knowledge about the forces that drive the formation, the maintenance and the decay of social norms. In particular, our knowledge about how norms affect behavior and how norm obedience and...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/02/2018
Efficient weighting: a more powerful test for cross-sectional anomalies
Many researchers seek factors that predict the cross-section of stock returns. The standard methodology sorts stocks according to their factor scores into quantiles and forms a corresponding long-short portfolio. Such a course of action ignores any information on the covariance matrix of stock returns. Historically, it has been difficult to estimate the covariance matrix for a large...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/02/2018
Voluntary disclosure in unfair contests
This paper studies incentives for the interim voluntary disclosure of verifiable information in probabilistic all-pay contests. Considered are unfair contests, i.e., contests in which, subject to activity conditions, one player (the favorite) is interim always more likely to win than the other player (the underdog). A condition is identified that ensures that a given contest is...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/02/2018
Ventral striatal dysfunction and symptom expression in individuals with schizotypal personality traits and early psychosis
Striatal abnormalities play a crucial role in the pathophysiology of schizophrenia. Growing evidence suggests an association between aberrant striatal activity during reward anticipation and symptom dimensions in schizophrenia. However, it is not clear whether this holds across the psychosis continuum. The aim of the present study was to investigate alterations of ventral striatal...
Institution partenaire
English / 13/01/2018
Balanced bootstrap joint confidence bands for structural impulse response functions
Constructing joint confidence bands for structural impulse response functions based on a VAR model is a difficult task because of the non-linear nature of such functions. We propose new joint confidence bands that cover the entire true structural impulse response function up to a chosen maximum horizon with a prespecified probability (1 − α), at least asymptotically. Such bands are...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2018
Money vs. time: family income, maternal labor supply, and child development
We study the effect of family income and maternal hours worked on child development. Our instrumental variable analysis suggests different results for cognitive and behavioral development. An additional 1,000 USD in family income improves cognitive development by 4.4 percent of a standard deviation but has no effect on behavioral development. A yearly increase of 100 work hours...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2018
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