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Economic Aspects and Social Drivers of Land Degradation
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2011
Improving Modeling of MEMS-IMUs Operating in GNSS-denied Conditions
Stochastic modeling is a challenging task for lowcost inertial sensors whose errors can have complex spectral structures. This makes the tuning process of the INS/GNSS Kalman filter often sensitive and difficult. We are currently investigating two approaches for bounding the errors in the mechanization. The first is an improved modeling of stochastic errors through the superposition...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2011
Verbindlichkeit von Scheidungskonventionen
Nach schweizerischem Recht bedarf eine Scheidungskonvention der gerichtlichen Genehmigung für ihre Verbindlichkeit. Diese Erfolgt regelmässig mit dem Scheidungsurteil. In der Praxis fragt sich immer wieder, bis zu welchem Zeitpunkt eine Partei eine zwischen den Parteien bereits vereinbarte aber vom Gericht noch nicht genehmigte Konvention zurück ziehen kann.
Die Genehmigung der...
Institution partenaire
Deutsch / 01/01/2011
GmbH und AG in der Schweiz, in Deutschland und in Österreich - Gesellschaftsrecht, Corporate Governance und Statistik : (inkl. Musterdokumente)
GmbH und AG sind in der Schweiz, in Deutschland und Österreich die beliebtesten Rechtsformen für juristische Gesellschaften. Die Grundstrukturen gleichen sich, doch sind erhebliche Unterschiede bedingt durch die jeweiligen nationalen Bestimmungen im Gesellschaftsrecht festzustellen. Dies hat dazu geführt, dass die zahlenmässige Bedeutung der beiden Gesellschaftsformen in den drei...
Institution partenaire
Deutsch / 01/01/2011
Stellvertretung und Rechtsvertretung im Verwaltungsrat
Zusammenfassend ist festzuhalten, dass eine Stellvertretung im Verwaltungsrat grundsätzlich nicht zulässig ist. Dies gilt insbesondere für Suppleanten.
Ausnahmsweise kann eine Stellvertretung im Verwaltungsrat unter institutionellen Voraussetzungen und mit Einschränkungen in persönlicher Hinsicht zulässig sein. Insbesondere braucht es dazu eine ausdrückliche Ermächtigung in den...
Institution partenaire
Deutsch / 01/01/2011
Altersgrenzen als Diskriminierungsproblem : Die Zulässigkeit von Altersgrenzen im Lichte von völker-, verfassungs- und europarechtlicher Diskriminierungsverbote
Institution partenaire
Deutsch / 01/01/2011
Public Corporate Governance : Handbuch für die Praxis
Für die Umsetzung der Public Corporate Governance zur Steuerung, Führung und Aufsicht von öffentlichen Unternehmen besteht in der Schweiz aktuell ein grosser Nachholbedarf. Die Steuerung ausgelagerter Aufgaben und ausgegliederter Einheiten ist mit den richtigen Instrumenten zielorientiert aufzusetzen und umzusetzen. Es handelt sich um ein Fachbuch für Praktiker, welche konkrete...
Institution partenaire
Deutsch / 01/01/2011
Barycentric Bounds in Stochastic Programming : Theory and Application
The design and analysis of efficient approximation schemes is of fundamental importance in stochastic programming research. Bounding approximations are particularly popular for providing strict error bounds that can be made small by using partitioning techniques. In this article we develop a powerful bounding method for linear multistage stochastic programs with a generalized...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2011
Bank Funding, Securitization and Loan Terms: Evidence from Foreign Currency Lending
We examine how bank funding and securitization activity affect the currency denomination of business loans. We analyze a unique dataset that for more than hundred thousand loans granted by one Bulgarian bank to over sixty thousand different firms in the period 2003-2007 includes information on the requested and granted currency of the loans. Our findings confirm the conjecture that...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2011
Trade Liberalization and Growth: Plant-Level Evidence from Switzerland
This paper estimates the effect of trade liberalization on growth, using plant-level data from Switzerland. We employ a natural experiment framework to quantify the effect of a bundle of treaties liberalizing trade between Switzerland and the EU enacted in June 2002 ("Bilateral Agreements I") on the growth of Swiss plants. Using both a semi-parametric difference-in-...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2011
Did the 2007-08 Financial Crisis Change Risk Perception?
This paper investigates, how the 2007-08 financial crisis has affected the risk perceptions of institutional bond investors. Using a methodology novel to the empirical finance literature, we quantify the impact that changes in risk perception have had on bond spreads over the course of the crisis. The relative contribution of the change in risk perceptions can be measured by...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2011
Relaxing monotonicity in the identification of local average treatment effects
In heterogeneous treatment effect models with endogeneity, the identification of the local average treatment effect (LATE) typically relies on an instrument that satisfies two conditions: (i) joint independence of the potential post-instrument variables and the instrument and (ii) monotonicity of the treatment in the instrument. We show that identification is still feasible when...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2011
Corporate Governance and Firm Value: International Evidence
In this paper, we investigate the relation between firm-level corporate governance and firm value based on a large and previously unused dataset from Governance Metrics International (GMI) comprising 6,663 firm-year observations from 22 developed countries over the period from 2003 to 2007. Based on a set of 64 individual governance attributes we construct two alternative additive...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2011
The US Term Premia around the FOMC Decisions
Using the high-frequency identification from Piazzesi (2005), this study estimates a Gaussian term structure model on daily US interest rates data to explore the reaction of the estimated term premia on the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) policy rate decisions. All the FOMC decisions from January 1999 to December 2008 are divided into anticipated- and "surprise" policy...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2011
Identification of Causal Education Effects Using a Discontinuity in School Entry Tests : First Results from a Pilot Study
We use a credible regression discontinuity design to estimate causal education effects. Pupils in the Swiss education system had to pass a centrally organized exam that classified them into different levels of secondary school, and that ultimately determined their educational degree. A major feature of this exam was the local randomization around the classification threshold due to...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2011
The resort to protectionism during the great recession: Which factors mattered?
A dataset of state measures implemented between November 2008 and October 2010 that discriminate against foreign commercial interests is used to estimate the determinants of the resort to protectionism by governments during the Great Recession. A well known theory of protectionism is found to be systematically at odds with one important aspect of the data: the more protectionist...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2011
Inequality and Aggregate Savings in the Neoclassical Growth Model
Within the context of the neoclassical growth model I investigate the implications
of (initial) endowment inequality when the rich have a higher marginal savings rate than the poor. More unequal societies grow faster in the transition process, and therefore exhibit a higher speed of convergence. Furthermore, there is divergence in consumption and lifetime wealth if the rich...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2011
Non-homothetic preferences, parallel imports and the extensive margin of international trade
We study international trade in a model where consumers have non-homothetic preferences and where household income restricts the extensive margin of consumption. In equilibrium, monopolistic producers set high (low) prices in rich (poor) countries but a threat of parallel trade restricts the scope of price discrimination between countries. The threat of parallel trade allows...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2011
Climate Effects of Carbon Taxes, Taking into Account Possible Other Future Climate Measures
The increase of fuel extraction costs as well as of temperature will make it likely that in the medium-term future technological or political measures against global warming may be implemented. In assessments of a current climate policy the possibility of medium-term future developments like backstop technologies is largely neglected but can crucially affect its...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2011
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