Publications des institutions partenaires
The role of authenticity constraints and geographical communities on entrepreneurship: Evidence from the Franconian beer industry 1989-2012
This dissertation focuses on the barriers that authenticity brings to entrepreneurial outcomes such as entry of new organizations, product diversification, and introduction of new products in traditional industries. Advancing theory on organizational authenticity and geographical communities, this thesis argues that authenticity is not only an asset that organizations can choose...
Institution partenaire
English / 05/09/2016
Learning from the Swiss corporate governance exception
The Swiss economy represents an exception to the legal origin theory (e.g., Roe (2006)). Although Switzerland is a country belonging to the civil law family, many of its public companies have diffused corporate ownership, as do those in common law countries. This paper maintains that the Swiss exception relies on the complementarity between corporate ownership and policies...
Institution partenaire
English / 11/07/2016
Conditioning the information in asset pricing
This thesis analyzes different theoretical and empirical aspects related to the use of the information in asset pricing. As a main innovation I extend the asset pricing literature proposing a new highly flexible technique for the estimation of the markets subjective distribution of future returns. Applying this technique to different problems I answer to some long-lasting puzzles...
Institution partenaire
English / 23/06/2016
The role of culture in long-term care
The aim of this paper is to assess the role of culture in shaping individual preferences to- wards different long-term care (LTC) arrangements. The analysis uses Swiss data from two administrative databases covering the universe of formal LTC providers between 2007 and 2013. Switzerland is a multi-cultural confederation where state administrative borders do not always coincide...
Institution partenaire
English / 07/04/2016
Latent factor models for large and mixed-frequency data in finance and macroeconomics
My thesis considers new latent factor models, and their estimation methodologies, suitable for settings relatively unexplored in the econometric literature as (i) a nonlinear model for the joint dynamics of a large cross-sectional distribution of asset returns, and the persistence of the ranks of the individuals inside it; (ii) approximate linear latent factor models for large...
Institution partenaire
English / 30/03/2016
Essays on the organizational consequences of on-line behavior of audiences
Over the past 2 decades, internet use has become increasingly more a part of our every-day lives. We communicate with our friends and colleagues using the internet, we work using the internet, we also shop using the internet. We learn and increase our knowledge from information available on the internet. While on the one hand, we advance from the instant access to online contexts...
Institution partenaire
English / 08/03/2016
Persistent and transient productive inefficiency in a regulated industry: electricity distribution in New Zealand
The productive efficiency of a firm can be decomposed into two parts, one persistent and one transient. So far, most of the cost efficiency studies estimated frontier models that provide either the transient or the persistent part of productive efficiency. This distinction seems to be appealing also for regulators. During the last decades, public utilities such as water and...
Institution partenaire
English / 23/02/2016
Corporate mobility: Impacts on life domains and implications for work-life balance of international business travelers and expatriates
In my dissertation I aim to explore the impacts of work-related mobility on job, family life and personal well-being of the travelling employees. To do so, three studies have been conducted with the purpose to investigate business travel behavioral patterns and impacts of work-related mobility on various life domains of the three segments, namely frequent corporate business...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/02/2016
Corporate flat tax reforms and businesses' location choices: evidence from Switzerland
Profit taxation affects corporate investment decisions through several channels. This paper focuses on the impact of corporate income flat tax reforms on businesses' location choices. Since 1990, Swiss states (cantons) have been switching from a graduated to a flat tax rate scheme on profits. The paper assesses the effects of such a reform on the number of establishments by...
Institution partenaire
English / 19/01/2016
Law enforcement, municipal budgets and spillover effects: evidence from a quasi-experiment in Italy
In this paper, I empirically investigate the presence of spillover effects resulting from the strengthening of law enforcement against corruption and organized crime in local governments. Specifically, I take advantage of an Italian law that gives power to the central government to replace democratically elected municipal officials who are potentially connected with mafia with a...
Institution partenaire
English / 14/01/2016
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