infonet-economy

The 2016 U.S. presidential campaign made the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) a prime target in a heated and divisive debate that questioned the United States' participation in the international trading system. Though campaign rhetoric typically softens as a candidate takes office, this time may be different. President Donald Trump has called NAFTA “the worst trade deal…

We propose a novel theoretical framework to study how environmental regulation shapes economic development in a developing country such as China. We develop a dynamic tax competition model in which local governments, located in development zones, use variation in taxes to attract workers to their jurisdictions. Their objective is to maximize tax revenue less local health costs that…

We consider the Dirichlet problem for a partial differential equation involving the Jacobian determinant in two dimensions of space. The problem consists in finding a vector-valued function such that the determinant of its gradient is given pointwise in a bounded domain, together with essential boundary conditions. This problem was initially considered in Dacorogna and Moser [Ann.…

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…

While the importance of a supportive context for entrepreneurship is widely acknowledged, its antecedents are rarely investigated. We apply the concept of organizational climate to higher education institutions and examine the drivers of students’ perceptions of the entrepreneurial climate in their university. Combining data from two unique datasets and using multilevel techniques,…

«Chi bler voul, poch piglia» ist Rätoromanisch und bedeutet: „Wer viel will, nimmt wenig.“ Dieses Sprichwort steht stellvertretend für das Selbstverständnis der Schweiz, bescheiden mit seinen Ressourcen umzugehen. Doch gerade die allumfassende Digitalisierung könnte diese Grundeinstellung bei Schweizer Käufern nachhaltig verändern. Schweizer Handelsunternehmen sollten den Sprung nach…