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A Growth Oriented Dual Income Tax

This paper proposes a growth-oriented dual-income tax by combining an allowance for corporate equity with a broadly defined flat tax on personal capital income. Revenue losses are compensated by an increase in the value added tax. The paper demonstrates the neutrality properties of the reform with respect to investment, firm financial decisions and organizational choice. Tax rates…

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English / 01/02/2007

The CC Model as Organizational Design Striving to Combine Relevance and Rigor

This paper addresses the design problem of ensuring engaged researchs rigorous relevance and, especially, its implications regarding the engaged researchers role. As a theoretical background, this paper firstly uses the role concept from the Business Engineering discipline where role is a fundamental element of generic method description. Secondly, it uses the Design Science…

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English / 01/02/2007

Probabilistic Aging

The paper develops an overlapping generations model with probabilistic aging of households. We define age as a set of personal attributes such as earnings potential, health and tastes that are characteristic of a person's position in the life-cycle. In assuming a limited number of different states of age, we separate the concepts of age and time since birth. Agents may retain…

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English / 15/01/2007

Corporate financial reporting and disclosure. A behavioral finance perspective

Managers' information disclosure to firm's outsiders plays an essential role for mitigating information asymmetry and agency problems. The main objective of this thesis is to analyze the managers' reporting incentives in a broader context, while considering the preferences of behavioural investors and the active role of financial analysts as target setters in…

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English / 01/01/2007

When does university research get commercialized? Institutional and individual level predictors of commercial outputs from research-council funded projects

We examine the tensions that make it difficult for a research-oriented university to achieve commercial outcomes. Building on the organisational ambidexterity literature, we specify the nature of the tensions (between academic and commercially-oriented activities) at both institutional and individual levels of analysis, and how these can be resolved. We test our hypotheses using a…

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Université de Genève

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English / 01/01/2007

Predicting Wimbledon 2005 tennis results by mere player name recognition

The outcomes of matches in the 2005 Wimbledon Gentlemen's tennis competition were predicted by mere player name recognition. In a field study, amateur tennis players (n = 79) and laypeople (n = 105) indicated players' names they recognized, and predicted match outcomes. Predictions based on recognition rankings aggregated over all participants correctly predicted 70% of all…

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Université de Genève

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English / 01/01/2007

Integrating latent variables in discrete choice models – How higher-order values and attitudes determine consumer choice

Integrated choice and latent variable (ICLV) models represent a promising new class of models which merge classic choice models with the structural equation approach (SEM) for latent variables. Despite their conceptual appeal, to date applications of ICLV models in marketing are still rare. The present study on travel mode choice clearly demonstrates the value of ICLV models to…

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Université de Genève

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English / 01/01/2007

Hybrid Choice Models : Estimation Using Canned SEM Software

Hybrid choice models represent a new class of models which merge classical choice models with the structural e quation approach (SEM) for latent variables. Even though hybrid choice models allow for a more realistic explanation of choice behavior by incorporating latent constructs such as attitudes and values, applications in marketing are scarce. The present study on travel mode…

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Université de Genève

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English / 01/01/2007

Fiscal Policy Space and Economic Performance: Some Stylized Facts

This paper complements the cross-country approach by examining the correlates of GDP per capita growth acceleration around “significant” public expenditure episodes by reorganizing the data around turning points, or “events”. Here we define (i) a growth event as an increase in average per capita growth of at least 2 percentage points (pp) sustained for 5 years, (ii) fiscal event as…

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Université de Genève

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English / 01/01/2007

Power maximization, hegemony and the unipolar international structure

Définir la structure internationale contemporaine comme unipolaire est devenu un fait accepté par l'ensemble de la communauté scientifique. Cependant, qu'entend-on par unipolarité? En d'autres termes, comment la structure unipolaire affecte-t-elle le comportement de la puissance hégémonique? Cette thèse tente d'apporter un cadre d'intelligibilité permettant…

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Université de Genève

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English / 01/01/2007

Workers, worries and welfare states: Social protection and job insecurity in 15 OECD countries

This article examines a model of the domestic political economy of subjective employment insecurity in advanced industrial societies. Based on data on people’s attitudes toward their job as well as levels of and kinds of social protection collected in 15 OECD countries, it shows that there are distinct manifestations of job insecurity that are affected differently by distinct aspects…

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Université de Genève

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English / 01/01/2007

Switzerland's Approximation of Its Legislation to the EU Acquis: Specificities, Lessons and Paradoxes

Bilateral agreements between the EU and Switzerland offer very interesting, original and also paradoxical cases when considering approximation of laws by non-EU countries. Conceptualizing and even more modelling the EU negotiating position in the Swiss case could be of great interest to its future partners in bilateral agreements.

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Université de Genève

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English / 01/01/2007

Which European Public Order? Sources of Imbalance in the European Area of Freedom, Security and Justice1

ABSTRACT The creation of the Single European Market has been accompanied by an intense discussion on whether market-creating measures have been privileged over market- correcting ones by the institutional system of the EU. The creation of an ‘Area of Freedom, Security and Justice’ (AFSJ) launched by the Treaty of Amsterdam poses a similar question which, however, has remained heavily…

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Université de Genève

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English / 01/01/2007

Mutual recognition and the monopoly of force: limits of the single market analogy

The introduction of the principle of mutual recognition in EU justice and home affairs co-operation has been associated with a ‘revolution’ in internal security co-operation and has raised as many expectations as concerns. Whereas most discussions focus on the legal coherence of the concept in third pillar legislation and its potential tensions with procedural law and human rights…

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Université de Genève

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English / 01/01/2007

The singularity of the German doctorate as a signal for managerial talent: causes, consequences and future developments

The paper focuses on signaling options for managerial talent under different higher education regimes. The educational paths in a sample of top managers of the 100 largest publicly traded companies in the U.S., France and Germany are consistent with our theoretical conjectures. For the singular role of the German doctorate, the traditional chair system in doctoral education and…

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English / 01/01/2007

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