infonet-economy

In this book, the authors take us on a journey that helps us understand the notion of entrepreneurship in multiple and interesting ways. Fundamental questions are first answered, such as: Why entrepreneurship is important for our society? Do entrepreneurs add to the wealth of a nation, contribute to the development of a society, create social change and stimulate the business climate...

The practice of lobbying in the interest of economic or social groups plays an important role in the policy making process of most economies. We carry out a multi-level network analysis of the relations among lobbying organizations in the EU transparency register, focusing on the domain of finance and climate. We find that the network centrality of organizations has no simple...

In this paper we show that endogenous - i.e. market-generated - signals observed by the private sector have crucial implications for monetary policy. When informationis endogenous, achieving the optimum through price stabilization is elusive. The optimal policy then consists, on the contrary, in exacerbating the natural response of.prices to shocks. In our framework, where supply...

We develop a model of foreign direct investment (FDI) in which financially liquid foreign firms acquire liquidity-constrained target firms. Using a large dataset of emerging-market acquisitions, we find evidence supporting three central predictions of the model: (i) firms in external finance dependent and intangible sectors are more likely to be targets of foreign acquisitions; (ii)...

Les développements liés aux environnements de travail intelligents (ETI) ne cessent de s’étendre. L’utilisation des données issues des ETI pose de nombreuses questions éthiques. En nous fondant sur des travaux traitant de ces questions, nous avons réalisé une étude empirique sur l’attitude vis - à - vis de la mise en place d’ETI. Nous avons ainsi...

Despite much attention interdisciplinary edu cations still struggle to make full foothold in higher education. This paper study how an interdisciplinary master education can become embedded in education institutions. Educational research and institutional theory is used to conceptualise the interdisciplinary aspect and institutional change work. The case, Innokick, is a new...

We propose a general particle filtering and learning framework for mixed-frequency state-space models. Our mixed-frequency particle methods use a smoother so as to draw the Bayesian in- ference from low-frequency observations. Our forward smoother is simple and efficient, and the sample path degeneracy is negligible with a small lag size. The backward smoother mitigates the sample...

As suggested by previous results, whether, when designing robots, we should make use of social stereotypes and thus perpetuate them is question of present concern. The aim of this study was the identification of the specific conditions under which people’s judgments of robots were no longer guided by stereotypes. The study participants were 121 individuals between 18 and 69 years of...

People’s fairness preferences are an important constraint for what constitutes an acceptable economic transaction, yet little is known about how these preferences are formed. In this paper, we provide clean evidence that previous transactions play an important role in shaping perceptions of fairness. Buyers used to high market prices, for example, are more likely to perceive high...