Publications des institutions partenaires
Stress that doesn’t pay: the commuting paradox
People spend a lot of time commuting and often find it a burden. According to economics, the burden of commuting is chosen when compensated either on the labor or on the housing market so that individuals’ utility is equalized. However, in a direct test of this strong notion of equilibrium, we find that people with longer commuting time report systematically lower subjective well-...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/06/2008
Three strategies to deal with terrorism
Deterrence has been a crucial element in fighting terrorism. An economic analysis of terrorism also points to alternative and potentially superior policies. We suggest three policies that can well be integrated into existing constitutions of democratic and rule-based countries. Two policies are based on diminishing the benefits of committing terrorist acts for prospective terrorists...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/06/2008
Mechanisms of superstar formation in German soccer: empirical evidence
Based on the competing theories of superstar formation proposed by Rosen (1981) and Adler (1985) it is controversial if first hand observable talent or other factors like past consumption and popularity influence stardom. This article investigates the emergence of superstars in German soccer. We use data on market values and individual player performance and publicity data to...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/06/2008
Consumption, wealth and business cycles in Germany
This paper studies the long-run relationship between consumption, asset wealth and income - the consumption-wealth ratio - based on German data from 1980 to 2003. We find that departures from this long-run relationship
mainly predict adjustments in income. The German consumption-wealth ratio also contains considerable forecasting power for a range of business cycle indicators,...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/06/2008
Learning affective values for faces is expressed in amygdala and fusiform gyrus
To monitor the environment for social threat humans must build affective evaluations of others. These evaluations are malleable and to a high degree shaped by responses engendered by specific social encounters. The precise neuronal mechanism by which these evaluations are constructed is poorly understood. We tested a hypothesis that conjoint activity in amygdala and fusiform gyrus...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/06/2008
Der Ärzteindex: ein Instrument zur Beurteilung der Wirtschaftlichkeit von Grundversorgern
Zielsetzung: Auf der einen Seite erwarten die Öffentlichkeit und der Gesetzgeber[1] von den Schweizer Krankenversicherern, dass sie die Leistungserbringer[2] nach ihrer Wirtschaftlichkeit unterscheiden können. Auf der anderen Seite wird es mit dem steigenden Wettbewerbsdruck für den einzelnen Versicherer immer überlebensnotwendiger, die Wirtschaftlichkeitsbeurteilung möglichst gut zu...
Institution partenaire
Deutsch / 01/06/2008
Welchen Wert hat die Euro 2008 für die Schweiz?
Institution partenaire
Deutsch / 01/06/2008
Loss Aversion
Loss aversion is traditionally defined in the context of lotteries over monetary payoffs. This paper extends the notion of loss aversion to a more general setup where outcomes (consequences) may not be measurable in monetary terms and people may have fuzzy preferences over lotteries, i.e. they may choose in a probabilistic manner. The implications of loss aversion are discussed for...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/06/2008
Verkaufsführung - die unterschätzte Managementaufgabe
In der Industrie sind allein 30 bis 40% der Mitarbeiter im Aussendienst engagiert (Fischer 2000). Der Verkauf ist das teuerste Instrument des Marketing, doch nicht selten führt er ein Eigenleben. Erklärtes Unternehmensziel muss es deshalb sein, die Verkaufsaufgaben mit den aktuellen Erkenntnissen des Management zu verknüpfen.
Institution partenaire
Deutsch / 01/06/2008
Testing Conditional Asset Pricing Models Using a Markov Chain Monte Carlo Approach
We use Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods for the parameter estimation and testing of conditional asset pricing models. In contrast to traditional approaches, it is truly conditional because the assumption that time variation in betas is driven by a set of conditioning variables is not necessary. Moreover, the approach has exact finite sample properties and accounts for errors-...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/06/2008
Management Strategies and Dynamic Financial Analysis
Dynamic financial analysis (DFA) has become an important tool in analyzing the financial situation of insurance companies. Constant development and documentation of DFA tools has occurred during the last years. However, several questions concerning the implementation of DFA systems have not been answered in the DFA literature to date. One such important issue is the consideration of...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/06/2008
Community for innovations: Developing an integrated concept for open innovation
Institution partenaire
English / 01/06/2008
Fair Value - Fluch oder Segen?: Wie Rechnungslegungsstandards Krisen im Finanzsektor verschärfen können
In der Finanzkrise, die sich aus dem Umgang mit Werten des amerikanischen Immobilienmarktes ergeben hat, spielen sogenannt faire Bewertungen der Vermögenstitel und die dadurch notwendig gewordenen Abschreibungen eine zentrale Rolle. Der Autor des folgenden Beitrags geht der Frage nach, wie weit die moderne Rechnungslegung mit der Bewertung zum Fair Value sinnvoll ist und die...
Institution partenaire
Deutsch / 31/05/2008
Sprachlandschaften. Sprachenvielfalt in Schweizer Unternehmen und ihre Folgen für verschiedene Sprachgruppen
Institution partenaire
Deutsch / 30/05/2008
Ethische Massstäbe für militärisches Handeln: Buch eines Berufsoffiziers und Theologen
Institution partenaire
Deutsch / 23/05/2008
Oxytocin shapes the neural circuitry of trust and trust adaptation in humans
Trust and betrayal of trust are ubiquitous in human societies. Recent behavioral evidence shows that the neuropeptide oxytocin increases trust among humans, thus offering a unique chance of gaining a deeper understanding of the neural mechanisms underlying trust and the adaptation to breach of trust. We examined the neural circuitry of trusting behavior by combining the intranasal,...
Institution partenaire
English / 22/05/2008
WTO Dispute Settlement - An Important Trade Policy Instrument
Zimmermann, Thomas A.: WTO Dispute Settlement - An Important Trade Policy Instrument; Presentation at the 64th Session of the OECD Steel Committee; Paris (La Défense): Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), 22 May 2008 / Präsentation an der 64. Sitzung des OECD Stahlausschusses; Paris (La Défense): Organisation für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung...
Institution partenaire
English / 22/05/2008
Die Champions League als Zwei-Klassengesellschaft
Institution partenaire
Deutsch / 16/05/2008
Berufliche Vorsorge und Unternehmen
Das Paper zeigt auf dem Hintergrund von Interviews mit Schlüsselpersonen anhand von 7 Thesen die heutige Situation und beschreibt Handlungsfelder und Gestaltungsspielräume für Unternehmen
Institution partenaire
Deutsch / 15/05/2008
Temporal characteristics of audiovisual information processing
In complex natural environments, auditory and visual information often have to be processed simultaneously. Previous functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies focused on the spatial localization of brain areas involved in audiovisual (AV) information processing, but the temporal characteristics of AV information flow in these regions remained unclear. In this study, we...
Institution partenaire
English / 14/05/2008
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