infonet-economy

Die Schweiz ist auf dem Weg zu einer Wissensgesellschaft: Doch wie gelangt das Wissen über die richtige Nutzung von Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologien (ICT) in die Köpfe der Menschen? Dieses Anliegen verlangt die Stärkung von Medienkompetenz und führt zu einer Reform des Unterrichts.

Die Initiative Public Private Partnership - Schulen im Netz (PPP-SiN) wurde im...

We analyze the interaction between risk sharing and capital accumulation in a stochastic OLG model with production. We give a complete characterization of interim Pareto optimal competitive equilibrium allocations. Furthermore, we provide
tests of Pareto optimality/suboptimality based on (risky) rates of return only.

Imagine you are overweight and you spot your favorite pastry in the storefront of a bakery. How do you manage to resist this temptation? Or to give other examples, how do you manage to restrain yourself from overspending or succumbing to sexual temptations? The present article summarizes two recent studies stressing the fundamental importance of inhibition in the process of decision...

Conscious perception depends not only on sensory input, but also on attention [1, 2]. Recent studies in monkeys [3-6] and humans [7-12] suggest that influences of spatial attention on visual awareness may reflect top-down influences on excitability of visual cortex. Here we tested this specifically, by providing direct input into human visual cortex via cortical transcranial magnetic...