infonet-economy

Thèse de doctorat : Université de Fribourg, 2019.

Müller-Stewens, Günter: Sinnorientierung bieten. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung NZZ (2019), S. 12.

On May 26, 2017, Harvard economist Ricardo Hausmann published an Op Ed titled "Hunger Bonds", urging investors to avoid Venezuelan sovereign bonds on the grounds that the country was prioritizing payments on the bonds over remedying a humanitarian crisis. Contemporaneously, news emerged regarding a suspicious looking bond issue by Venezuela's oil company that was purchased largely by…

This study analyzes how and to what extent South Korea has embedded developmental liberalism into its FTA initiative, departing from its traditional focus on developmental mercantilism. In the wake of the global economic crisis of 2008-10 and the subsequent expansion of government interventionism across the world, the developmental state model has attracted renewed scholarly…

How do states design dispute settlement mechanisms in preferential trade agreements? And why do they choose the design features they eventually decide upon? This study proposes to test established theories of institutional design with a new dataset, and explores the possibility of an alternative explanation: institutionalist theory considers acts of design to be unique and…

When purchasing a car in Switzerland, consumers can consult three quality labels. First, a reliability label provides the probability that a given car will have a breakdown in the next year. Second, an energy efficiency label, based on fuel consumption and carbon dioxide emissions, ranks cars from A to G. Third, a safety label, based on crash tests, ranks cars from five to one stars…

Eberle, Reto (2018). Swiss Audit Monitor 2018: Honorare, Revisionsstellen-Mandatsdauer von SPI-Unternehmen sowie angewendete Rechnungslegungsstandards. Expert Focus, 92(12):1028-1041.

Skimina, Ewa; Cieciuch, Jan; Schwartz, Shalom H; Davidov, Eldad; Algesheimer, René (2019). Behavioral Signatures of Values in Everyday Behavior in Retrospective and Real-Time Self-Reports. Frontiers in Psychology, 10:281.