Publications des institutions partenaires
Microfinance Banks and Financial Inclusion
We examine how the geographical proximity to a microfinance bank affects financial inclusion. We study the expansion of the branch network of ProCredit banks in South-East Europe between 2006 and 2010. We report three main findings: First, ProCredit is more likely to open a new branch in areas with a large share of low-income households. Second, in locations where ProCredit opens a…
Institution partenaire
English / 03/07/2015
Game form misconceptions are not necessary for a willingness-to-pay vs. willingness-to-accept gap
Cason and Plott (J Polit Econ, 122(6):1235–1270, 2014) show that subjects’ misconception about the incentive properties of the Becker-DeGroot-Marschak (BDM) value elicitation procedure can generate data patterns that look like—and might thus be misinterpreted as evidence for—preferences constructed from endowments or reference points. We test whether game form misconceptions are…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/07/2015
Comment on "risk preferences are not time preferences": balancing on a budget line
In a recent experimental study of intertemporal risky decision making, Andreoni and Sprenger (2012) find that subjects exhibit a preference for intertemporal diversification, which is inconsistent with discounted expected utility theory. It was claimed that their results are also at odds with models involving probability weighting, such as rank-dependent utility and cumulative…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/07/2015
Rethinking fast and slow based on a critique of reaction-time reverse inference
Do people intuitively favour certain actions over others? In some dual-process research, reaction-time (RT) data have been used to infer that certain choices are intuitive. However, the use of behavioural or biological measures to infer mental function, popularly known as ‘reverse inference’, is problematic because it does not take into account other sources of variability in the…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/07/2015
Cortisol and testosterone increase financial risk taking and may destabilize markets
It is widely known that financial markets can become dangerously unstable, yet it is unclear why. Recent research has highlighted the possibility that endogenous hormones, in particular testosterone and cortisol, may critically influence traders’ financial decision making. Here we show that cortisol, a hormone that modulates the response to physical or psychological stress, predicts…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/07/2015
Transcranial direct current stimulation of the posterior parietal cortex modulates arithmetic learning
The successful acquisition of arithmetic skills is an essential step in the development of mathematical competencies and has been associated with neural activity in the left posterior parietal cortex (PPC). It is unclear, however, whether this brain region plays a causal role in arithmetic skill acquisition and whether arithmetic learning can be modulated by means of non-invasive…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/07/2015
Innovation and Top Income Inequality
In this paper we use cross-state panel data to show that top income inequality is (at least partly) driven by innovation. We first establish a positive and significant correlation between various measures of innovativeness and top income inequality in cross-state panel regressions. Two distinct instrumentation strategies suggest that this correlation (partly) reflects a causality…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/07/2015
Finanzen überschatten das ökonomische Denken
Wenn eine Krise lange dauert, ist es Zeit, sie in einen grösseren Kontext einzuordnen. In den letzten Jahrzehnten hat eine «Finanzialisierung» der Wirtschaft und des ökonomischen Denkens stattgefunden. Sie hat von den produktiven Quellen des Wohlstands, deren Untersuchung den Anfang der modernen Volkswirtschaftslehre markiert, abgelenkt und ein merkantilistisches Denken in…
Institution partenaire
Deutsch / 01/07/2015
Essays on Immigration, Human Capital and Technical Change
Institution partenaire
English / 01/07/2015
Wie sozial ist Sozialpolitik?
Die staatlichen Leistungen sollen den Richtigen zugute kommen. Doch wie treffsicher sind diese in einem komplexen System zu erreichen? Überlegungen zur Zielgenauigkeit der Sozialpolitik.
Institution partenaire
Deutsch / 01/07/2015
Essays on motivation and incentives: theory and experimental evidence
Institution partenaire
English / 01/07/2015
Neuroeconomic approaches to emotion-related influences on decision-making
Decades of classic economic research have neglected the role of incidental and integral emotional factors in human decision-making. Standard economic models assume that decision-making is consequentialist in nature: Decision-making is postulated to be guided by the decision maker’s rational assessment of desirability and likelihood of alternative outcomes, i.e., by his strive to…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/07/2015
BRICS Trade Strategy: Time For A Rethink. The 17th GTA Report
The term BRICS was coined by Jim O’Neill from Goldman Sachs over a decade ago. Unlike many acronyms, this one has stuck - largely because of the growing share of the world economy associated with the emerging economic powers Brazil, India, China, Russia and South Africa (the latter being added somewhat later.) With the greater global footprint, the policy choices of these countries…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/07/2015
Extreme Value Theory for Heavy-Tails in Electricity Prices
Typical characteristics of electricity day-ahead prices at EPEX are the very high volatility and a large number of extreme price changes. In this paper, we look at hourly spot prices at the German electricity market and apply extreme value theory (EVT) to investigate the tails of the price change distribution. Our results show the importance of delimiting price spikes and modeling…
Institution partenaire
English / 29/06/2015
Sharp IV Bounds on Average Treatment Effects on the Treated and Other Populations Under Endogeneity and Noncompliance
In the presence of an endogenous binary treatment and a valid binary instrument, causal effects are point identified only for the subpopulation of compliers, given that the treatment is monotone in the instrument. With the exception of the entire population, causal inference for further subpopulations has been widely ignored in econometrics. We invoke treatment monotonicity and/or…
Institution partenaire
English / 15/06/2015
Umgang mit besonderen Herausforderungen bei der ärztlichen Beurteilung von Urteilsfähigkeit
Urteilsfähigkeit ist eine Grundvoraussetzung für medizinische Behandlungsentscheide wie Zustimmung, Ablehnung oder Abbruch einer Behandlung. Bei PatientInnen mit kognitiven Beeinträchtigungen steht die Urteilsfähigkeit häufig in Zweifel. Neben den viel diskutierten Herausforderungen im Zusammenhang mit der Situationsrelativität und der Kontroverse um mögliche Hilfsmittel zur…
Institution partenaire
Deutsch / 12/06/2015
Monetary and financial cooperation in East Asia: the state of affairs after the global and European crises
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
English / 08/06/2015
Kündigungsfalle Social Media
Die verbreitete Nutzung von sozialen Netzwerken macht auch vor dem Arbeitsplatz nicht halt. Die Vermischung der privaten und der beruflichen Nutzung von Social Media bringt gewisse Risiken mit sich, welche zu einer Kündigung von Seiten des Arbeitgebers führen können. Dieser Beitrag widmet sich den arbeitsrechtlichen Problemen im Zusammenhang mit der Nutzung von Social Media durch den…
Institution partenaire
Deutsch / 08/06/2015
Culture and Household Saving
In this paper, I examine the role of culture for households' saving decisions. Exploiting historical language borders within Switzerland, I isolate the effect of culture from economic, institutional, demographic and geographic factors for a homogeneous and representative sample of households. The analysis is based on the Swiss Household Panel that I complement with geographic…
Institution partenaire
English / 06/06/2015
Aid on Demand: African Leaders and the Geography of China's Foreign Assistance
Institution partenaire
English / 02/06/2015
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