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Corporate social responsibility and human resource management: A systematic review and conceptual analysis
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2016
Decomposing the effects of online customer reviews on brand, price, and product attributes
Online customer reviews (OCRs) have become a major source of information for customers in the Internet. Understanding the impact of OCRs on customers' decisions is an important challenge for academics and practitioners. We apply a choice-based conjoint experiment that combines all relevant levels of the OCR dimensions (valence, volume, and variance) and that estimates the effect...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2016
The interplay of human resource management and job boredom: a behavioural perspective
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2016
Special Issue: A contextual and dynamic understanding of sustainable urbanisation
By 2030, sixty percent of the world’s population is projected to live in cities. The majority of this growth in urban areas is expected to occur in cities in Asia, Africa and Latin America. The transition from rural to urban life styles is likely to increase household consumption and will require massive investments in urban infrastructure.
How will society cope with this...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2016
The Eurozone crisis: a consensus view of the causes and a few possible solutions
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
Français, English / 07/12/2015
Do casinos pay their customers to become risk-averse? Revising the house money effect in a natural experiment
In order to promote risky behavior, it is a common practice that casinos incentivize their customers through the provision of free financial means, i.e., free play. Thereby, casino operators try to exploit what is known as the house money effect. However, evidence from the field is scarce and prior research provides explanations that predict different behavioral outcomes. This...
Institution partenaire
English / 07/12/2015
Closing the gender gap in education: what is the state of gaps in labour force participation for women, wives and mothers?
The educational gender gap has closed or reversed in many countries. But what of gendered labour market inequalities? Using micro-level census data for some 40 countries, the authors examine the labour force participation gap between men and women, the “marriage gap” between married and single women’s participation, and the “motherhood gap” between mothers’ and nonmothers’...
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
English / 12/10/2015
Does public sector control reduce variance in school quality?
Does the government control of school systems facilitate equality in school quality? Whether centralized or localized control produces more equality depends not only on what ‘could’ happen in principle, but also on what does happen in practice. We use the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) database to examine the association between school sector and the variance...
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
English / 12/10/2015
Institutions, corporate governance and capital flows
Countries with weaker domestic investor protection hold less diversified international portfolios. An equilibrium business cycle model of North-South capital flow with corporate governance frictions between outside investors and corporate insiders explains this phenomenon through two channels. First,weak governance leads to concentrated ownership in the South because international...
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
English / 05/10/2015
Agricultural Biotechnology and Public Attitudes: An Attempt to Explain the Mismath between Experience and Perception
The main barriers to maximize the benefits and minimize the risk of modern agricultural biotechnology for society and the environment are not technical but regulatory in nature. Preventive regulation of agricultural biotechnology must be understood as a policy response to public rather than scientific concerns about the development and use of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/09/2015
On the construction of common size, value and momentum factors in international stock markets: A guide with applications
A major obstacle for research in international asset pricing and corporate finance has been a lack of reliable and publicly available data on international common risk factors and portfolios. To address this gap, we provide a step-by-step description of how appropriately screened data from Thomson Reuters Datastream and Thomson Reuters Worldscope can be used to construct high-quality...
Institution partenaire
English / 27/08/2015
The Sustainable Provision of Environmental Services : From Regulation to Innovation
This book addresses the ability of market-based instruments to improve the sustainable provision of environmental services. The author combines field research and insights from the multi-stakeholder dialogue at the FAO to analyze the gap between the predictions provided by theory and the corresponding outcomes in practice. In particular, the author challenges the theory behind...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/08/2015
Institutions, mobilization and rebellion in post-colonial societies
We revisit the simultaneous equations model of rebellion, mobilization, grievances and repression proposed by Gurr and Moore (1997). Our main contribution is to clarify and improve on the underlying identification strategy and to emphasize the role played by the institutional environment. Instrumental variables estimates for post-colonial societies reveal that the strength of the...
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
Français, English / 29/07/2015
WTO 2.0: governance of 21st century trade
The cross-border flows of goods, investment, services, know-how and people associated with international production networks–call it ‘supply-chain trade’ for short–has transformed the world. The WTO has not kept pace. This paper argues that adapting world trade governance to the realities of supply-chain trade will require a new organization–a WTO 2.0 as it were. Reasoning on the...
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
Français, English / 24/07/2015
The impact of three Mexican nutritional programs: the case of Dif-Puebla
This paper presents an impact evaluation of three nutritional programs implemented in Puebla, Mexico, run by SEDIF, a social assistance institution. The present study uses both a propensity score matching and weighting in order to balance the treatment and the control groups in terms of observable characteristics, and to estimate, later on, the causal effect of the programs on...
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
English / 23/07/2015
Masked development: exploring the hidden benefits of the Zapatista conflict
In 1994, the Zapatistas took up arms claiming for indigenous people rights in Chiapas, Mexico. After 12 days of civil war, the national government called for dialogue. Nevertheless, since then, it has deployed a "low intensity war" over the self-declared Zapatista Autonomous Communities. At the same time, the Zapatistas started to implement a new set of institutions, which have...
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
English / 23/07/2015
What drives financial inclusion at the bottom of pyramid?: empirical evidence from microfinance panel data
Microfinance has played a key role in including the poor in financial markets. This paper uses microfinance data to approximate financial inclusion in the poorer segments of the population and proposes a quantile regression approach to study the development of microfinance markets. Our approach accounts for the dynamic and heterogeneous impacts that key drivers may have across...
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
English / 23/07/2015
Doing well by doing good ?: empirical evidence from microfinance
This paper proposes novel identification techniques to examine the trade-offs that microfinance institutions face between increasing their profits and their social impact. It uses a quantile regression approach to examine how these trade-offs evolve as institutions become more commercialized. The identification strategy is based on an instrumental variable approach, and also...
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
English / 23/07/2015
Qualifying “fit”: the performance dynamics of firms’ change tracks through organizational configurations
Organizational configurations, sets of firms with similarities in a number of essential characteristics, provide important insights into the synergies inherent to certain combinations of structural attributes and the performance effects of firms’ retention of, adaptation to, or decoupling from high-performing configurations. The fundamental assumption is that the better a firm’s “fit...
Institution partenaire
English / 15/07/2015
Monetary and financial cooperation in East Asia: the state of affairs after the global and European crises
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
English / 08/06/2015
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