infonet-economy

The Snowden documents have revealed that intelligence agencies conduct large-scale digital surveillance by exploiting vulnerabilities in the hardware and software of communication infrastructures. These vulnerabilities have been characterized as “weaknesses,” “flaws,” “bugs,” and “backdoors.” Some of these result from errors in the design or implementation of systems, others from…

Therapeutic Drug Monitoring (TDM) is a key concept in precision medicine. The goal of TDM is to avoid therapeutic failure or toxic effects of a drug due to insufficient or excessive circulating concen-tration exposure related to between-patient variability in the drug’s disposition. We present TUCUXI – an intelligent system for TDM. By making use of embedded mathematical models, the…

Notre étude contribue à mieux comprendre les antécédent de l’engagement RSE des très grandes entreprises cotées et ses conséquence s. En analysant l’engagement RSE des entreprises du S&P 500, nos résultats montrent tout d’abord que cet engagement présente un effet cumulatif ; les entreprises engagées dans une démarche RSE ont tendance à enrichir celle - ci année après année.…

D’après l’OCDE (2009), la plupart des entreprises créées en Afrique sont des SARL (ou assimilées) et la plupart des emplois provient de cette catégorie d’entreprises. Conscientes des enjeux de l’entrepreneuriat collectif, les autorités de la plupart des pays d ’ Afrique de l ’ Ouest et Centrale se sont engagées à créer un environnement politique, institutionnel, juridique et…

In recent years, some significant cases of fraud have been noted in recent years in the Swiss banking sector. The consequences of these malicious acts involve many costs and a severe loss of image for the concerned banks. The purpose of our research is to identify the factors that cause employees to commit such acts that are harmful to their employers. In this paper, we attempt to…

Beerli, Andreas; Indergand, Ronald; Kunz, Johannes

We investigate the welfare effects of vertical integration of regional sports networks (RSNs) with programming distributors in U.S. multichannel television markets. Vertical integration can enhance efficiency by reducing double marginalization and increasing carriage of channels, but can also harm welfare due to foreclosure and incentives to raise rivals' costs. We estimate a…

Multivariate GARCH models have been designed as an extension of their univariate counterparts. Such a view is appealing from a modeling perspective but imposes correlation dynamics that are similar to time-varying volatility. In this paper, we argue that correlations are quite different in nature. We demonstrate that the highly unstable and erratic behavior that is typically observed…

Increased competition for viewers’ time is threatening the viability of public-service broadcasters (PSBs) around the world. Changing regulations regarding advertising minutes might increase revenues, but little is known about the structure of advertising demand. To address this problem, we collect a unique dataset on monthly impacts (quantities) and prices of UK television channels…