infonet-economy

Purpose
This research aims to observe different evaluation procedures for business services that are applied by buying companies; revealing the necessity of an integrative evaluation approach.

Design/methodology/approach
Based on a systematic analysis, explorative case study research – regarding five Swiss multinational companies – is used. In addition, the...

This paper develops and applies a novel estimation procedure for quantile regressions with time-varying coefficients based on a fully parametric, multifactor specification. The algorithm recursively filters the multifactor dynamic coefficients with a Kalman filter and parameters are estimated by maximum likelihood. The likelihood function is built on the Skewed-Laplace assumption. In...

We study the effects of the adoption of new agricultural technologies on structural transformation. To guide empirical work, we present a simple model where the effect of agricultural productivity on industrial development depends on the factor bias of technical change. We test the predictions of the model by studying the introduction of genetically engineered soybean seeds in Brazil...

Monika Bütler über den Zielkonflikt zwischen Beruf und Familie

This paper investigates the impact of changes in risk perception on bond markets triggered by the 2007-08 financial crisis. Using a methodology novel to empirical finance, we quantify the increase in credit spreads caused by changes in risk pricing and changes in risk factors. The lasting increase in credit spreads is almost exclusively due to time-varying prices of risk. We...

Der Outsourcingtrend ist vor allem in der Logistik von grosser
Relevanz. Rund 53 % (21,9 Mrd. CHF) des Schweizer Logistikmarktvolumens
im Jahr 2014 sind auf ausgelagerte Logistikleistungen zurückzuführen. Die Kontraktlogistik hat dabei einen Anteil von knapp 38 % am wertmässigen Volumen der outgesourcten Logistikleistungen – Tendenz steigend.

Visual perception is strongly shaped by expectations, but it is poorly understood how such perceptual expectations are learned in our dynamic sensory environment. Here, we applied a Bayesian framework to investigate whether perceptual expectations are continuously updated from different aspects of ongoing experience. In two experiments, human observers performed an associative...

We structurally estimate a two-sector Schumpeterian growth model with endogenous population and finite land reserves to study the long-run evolution of global population, technological progress and the demand for food. The estimated model closely replicates trajectories for world population, GDP, sectoral productivity growth and crop land area from 1960 to 2010. Projections from 2010...