infonet-economy

The year 2004 started with a bombshell for the M&A sector: On 24th January rumors emerged of an imminent takeover bid by Sanofi-Synthélabo to the shareholders in Aventis. On 25th April 2004, the first hostile takeover in the history of the pharmaceuticals sector was completed. The CEO of Sanofi and future CEO of Sanofi-Aventis, Jean-Francois Dehecq, commented: "I had a very…

The purpose of this article is to draw lessons for transdisciplinary modelling endeavours in social contexts. The chosen approach is to explore a research project that was part of the Swiss National Science Foundation's ‘Swiss Priority Programme Environment' (SPPE). The project focused on ecological issues and was realised in collaboration with local actors from a Swiss…

This paper examines the issue of family reunification of parents, i.e. a situation where adults living in one country bring one or both parents aged over 50, of foreign nationality and residing abroad, to live near them. The findings are based on two years of research conducted in Switzerland between 2006 and 2008. After stressing that this issue is rarely addressed in scientific…

In this paper we discuss an incumbent postal operator's incentives to invest in an innovation in the face of upcoming liberalization and deregulation of the letter market. Our contribution is a short description of recent innovations in the Swiss mail market and their interpretation in light of an illuminative yet tractable model. Following the literature, we distinguish between…