Publications des institutions partenaires
Employment and Earnings Effects of Awarding Training Vouchers in Germany
Participation in intensive training programs for the unemployed in Germany is allocated by awarding training vouchers. Using rich administrative data for all vouchers and actual program participation,
the authors provide first estimates of the short-run and long-run employment and earnings effects of receiving a training voucher award based on a selection-on-observables…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2016
Characteristics-based Porfolio Choice with Leverage Constraints
We show that the introduction of a leverage constraint improves the practical implementation of characteristics-based portfolios. The addition of the constraint leads to significantly lower transaction costs, to a reduction of negative portfolio weights, and to a decrease in volatility and misspecification risk. Furthermore, it allows investors to implement any desired level of…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2016
Experience and Brokerage in Asset Markets: Evidence from Art Auctions
Focusing on the art market, where auction houses act as brokers between art sellers and buyers, we investigate whether more experienced brokers achieve better performance as information providers. We use a unique data set of auctions of Italian paintings in various houses around the world, and we measure experience as the number of times an auctioneer has auctioned the artworks of a…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2016
Crash Sensitivity and Cross-Section of Expected Stock Returns
This paper examines whether investors receive compensation for holding crash-sensitive stocks. We capture the crash sensitivity of stocks by their lower tail dependence (LTD) with the market based on copulas. We find that stocks with weak LTD serve as a hedge during crises, but, overall, stocks with strong LTD have higher average future returns. This effect cannot be explained by…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2016
Fragility of Money Markets
We provide the first comprehensive theoretical model for money markets encompassing unsecured and secured funding, asset markets, and central bank policy. In our model, leveraged banks invest in assets and raise short-term funds by borrowing in the unsecured and secured money markets. We derive how funding liquidity across money markets is related, explain how a shock to asset values…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2016
Crash Aversion and the Cross-Section of Expected Stock Returns Worldwide
This paper examines whether investors receive compensation for holding stocks with a strong sensitivity to extreme market downturns in a sample covering forty countries. Worldwide, stocks with strong crash sensitivity deliver average returns of more than 7% p.a. higher than stocks with weak crash sensitivity. The effect is robust across geographical subsamples and is not explained by…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2016
Is Director Industry Experience Valuable?
We investigate whether investor reactions to the announcement of a new outside director appointment significantly depend upon the director's experience in the appointing firm's industry. Our sample includes 688 outside director appointments to boards of S&P 500 companies from 2005 to 2010. We find significantly higher announcement returns upon appointments of…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2016
Is inequality harmful for Innovation and Growth? Price versus Market Size Effects
We introduce non-homothetic preferences into an R&D based growth model to study how demand forces shape the impact of inequality on innovation and growth. Inequality affects the incentive to innovate via a price effect and a market size effect. When innovators have a large productivity advantage over traditional producers a higher extent of inequality tends to increase innovators…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2016
The Roles of Industry Idiosyncrasy, Cost Efficiency, and Risk in Internationalization: Evidence From the Insurance Industry
A central matter of dispute in the internationalization literature is the existence and shape of a systematic relationship between the degree of internationalization and firm performance (I-P relationship). Considering the global insurance industry, we show that the I-P relationship depends on the industry's idiosyncrasies and on the geographical scope of internationalization.…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2016
Media persuasion, ethnic hatred, and mass violence : a brief overview of recent rfesearch advances
This chapter outlines the fundamental empirical challenges when studying media effects on conflict and discusses some recent methodological advances designed to overcome them. The evidence in this emerging literature indicates that mass media can be an effective tool for political elites to orchestrate mass violence. Both direct and indirect persuasion matter. The emerging evidence…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2016
Die Roboter kommen - Konsequenzen für Arbeit und Arbeitsrecht
Dieser Aufsatz will aufzeigen, dass es heute schon viele Roboter gibt, die an Arbeitsplätzen weltweit im Einsatz stehen. Die Roboter sind schon mitten unter uns. Wir befinden uns im sog. Second Machine Age, zu Deutsch oft das Vierte Industrielle Zeitalter genannt. In der Einleitung wird zuerst definiert, was unter einem Roboter zu verstehen ist (nachfolgend I.), sodann wird…
Institution partenaire
Deutsch / 01/01/2016
Arbeitsrechtliche Fallstricke beim Jobsharing
Jobsharing ist eine Arbeitsform, die sich zunehmender
Beliebtheit erfreut. Der vorliegende Artikel
stellt die verschiedenen Formen von Jobsharing vor,
zeigt deren rechtliche Besonderheiten auf und diskutiert
die aus praktischer Sicht relevanten Fallstricke
in der vertraglichen Reglementierung von
Jobsharing.
Institution partenaire
Deutsch / 01/01/2016
Job Sharing ohne Sorgen um rechtliche Probleme
Institution partenaire
Deutsch / 01/01/2016
Bring Your Own Device - Wie man den Einsatz privater mobiler Geräte im beruflichen Umfeld gestaltet, damit er nicht zum "Bring Your Own Desaster" wird
BYOD ist die geschäftliche Nutzung eines mobilen privaten Gerätes. Der Nutzeffekt von Privatgeräten am Arbeitsplatz ist unbestritten. Gleichzeitig gilt es, die Sicherheit und Informationsgüter sowie die Privatsphäre der Arbeitnehmer zu gewährleisten. Dazu werden immer öfter entsprechende Nutzungsrichtlinien festgelegt. Ist in gewissen Branchen die Datensicherheit sehr wichtig, ist…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2016
Corruption and Contests: Cross-Country Evidence from Sensitive Soccer Matches
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2016
Streitpunkt Arbeitszeugnis
Arbeitszeugnisse sind in der Schweiz wichtige Bestandteile des Berufslebens. Alle Arbeitnehmer haben jederzeit Anspruch auf ein Arbeitszeugnis und sind für Bewerbungen in den allermeisten Fällen auch auf ein solches angewiesen. Daher erstaunt es nicht, dass in der Schweiz über eine Million Arbeitszeugnisse pro Jahr ausgestellt werden und es dabei in vielen Fällen zu…
Institution partenaire
Deutsch / 01/01/2016
Psychometric properties of the 7-item game addiction scale among french and German speaking adults
Institution partenaire
Français / 01/01/2016
Capitalizing upon the attractive and addictive properties of massively multiplayer online role-playing games to promote wellbeing
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2016
A predictive based regression algorithm for gene network selection
Gene selection has become a common task in most gene expression studies. The objective of such research is often to identify the smallest possible set of genes that can still achieve good predictive performance. To do so, many of the recently proposed classification methods require some form of dimension-reduction of the problem which finally provide a single model as an output and,…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2016
Paper Tiger? EU Trade Enforcement as if Binding Pacts Mattered.
A ground-breaking report by New Direction, the Foundation for European Reform, highlights the poor track record of the European Commission in holding trading partners to account.
The report's author, Professor Simon Evenett of the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland, found that the Commission only attempt to tackle 20 percent of complaints reported by European industry…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2016
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