infonet-economy

This thesis examines the question of environmental dilemmas from both a local and a global perspective. It explores the open question of cooperation in the climate commons and provides evidence in favor of a key role of trust in spurring cooperation in global dilemmas. Given the potential for cooperation in both local and global environmental dilemmas, this thesis explores the…

A report on the implementation of a project Steering the meetings industry in Kraków: appraisal and monitoring of the economic influence of the meetings industry on Kraków economy, using good practice from Switzerland.

The CLEF RepLab 2014 Track was the occasion to investigate the robustness of instance-based learning in a complete system for tweet monitoring and categorization based. The algorithm we implemented was a k-Nearest Neighbors. Dealing with the domain (automotive or banking) and the language (English or Spanish), the experiments showed that the categorizer was not affected by the choice…

Ucits were a series of directives issued by the European Commission whose aim was the facilitation of cross-border marketing and selling of collective investment schemes. This regulatory framework has recently gained popularity as an investment vehicle for hedge fund strategies. This trend can be explained in part by customers shying away from direct investments into hedge funds and…

There is mounting interest on all aspects related to management innovation, as evidence shows firms relying on this source of innovation are better set to cope with market competition. HRM function is deemed to play a fundamental role in securing innovative organizational activities. Yet, much research is needed to disentangle the relationship between the HRM function and this source…

We examine if online information search trends reflect public interest in purchasing hotel rooms. We introduce the trends into univariate forecasting models and conventional structural models of room night stays and occupancy rates. We also examine the association between the trends and hotel REIT stock returns. We find that on a monthly frequency, search trends are significantly…

This article analyses founding family influence on pay-out policies for Swiss listed firms over the period 2003–2010. We hypothesise that family firms have different incentives and characteristics that affect pay-out decisions and propose three possible explanations: agency theory, reputation building and family income needs. Our results show that founding family firms display…

This paper suggests a tentative conceptual framework to study the internationalization of foreign/OECD - based SMEs (Small and Medium - sized Enterprises) attracted by fast growing emerging markets, such as China and Southeast Asia, and the supportive role of global cities as market gate focal points providing a wide range of financial…