infonet-economy

Längst haben sich viele Märkte von Anbieter- zu Kundenmärkten gewandelt. Dieser Transformationsprozess verändert zunehmend die Rolle des Kunden vom passiven Marktteilnehmer zum aktiven und
zentralen Spieler in der Wertschöpfungskette eines Dienstleistungsunternehmens. Die Orientierung von Produkten und Dienstleistungen an den Wertvorstellungen der Kunden ist auch in der...

We study the short-run effect of involuntary job loss on comprehensive measures of public health costs. We focus on job loss induced by plant closure, thereby addressing the reverse causality problem as job displacements due to plant closure are unlikely caused by workers' health status, but potentially have important effects on individual workers' health and associated...

This paper studies the effect of financial booms and extreme asset valuations on the relative demand for skills and the wage structure. The substantial rise in wage inequality in the U.S. since the late 1970s has been accompanied by a major expansion of financial services, a series of asset bubbles, and rising relative wages and relative education in the financial industry. I...

Unlike in other disciplines, research output in economics is commonly measured based on the journal titles in which an author has published. Here, I examine how much output measures based on journal titles tell us about the academic interest and relevance of economic papers as measured by citation frequency. Using data from the 2008 Handelsblatt ranking of economists in German...

This paper explores semi-monotonicity constraints in the distribution of potential outcomes, first, conditional on an instrument, and second, in terms of the response function. The imposed assumptions are strictly weaker than traditional instrumental variables assumptions and can be gainfully employed to bound the counterfactual distributions, even though point identification is only...

Während das Konzept des Customer Value schon länger in der Wissenschaft diskutiert wird, ist die Theoretisierung des Employee Value neu. Beide Konzepte verlangen die Ausrichtung aller Managementaktivitäten am spezifischen Wohl einer Anspruchs­gruppe. Dies erinnert stark an die seit 1986 geführte Shareholder­Value­ Diskussion. Aber im Gegensatz zu den Kapitalgebern sind Kunden und...