infonet-economy

Despite that a wealth of evidence links striatal dopamine to individualś reward learning performance in non-social environments, the neurochemical underpinnings of such learning during social interaction are unknown. Here, we show that the administration of 300 mg of the dopamine precursor L-DOPA to 200 healthy male subjects influences learning about a partners’ prosocial preferences...

«Risiko Krankenversicherung» beschreibt die soziale und private Krankenversicherung der Schweiz mit statistischen Methoden. Die Verankerung der Autorinnen und Autoren in Wissenschaft und Praxis führt zu einer einzigartigen Mischung aus Analyse und praktischer Erfahrung. Das Buch folgt den aktuellen Fragen zu KVG und VVG: Kostenanstieg, faire Prämienkalkulation, Solvenz, optimaler...

Can protests cause political change, or are they merely symptoms of underlying shifts in policy preferences? We address this question by studying the Tea Party movement in the United States, which rose to prominence through coordinated rallies across the country on Tax Day, April 15, 2009. We exploit variation in rainfall on the day of these rallies as an exogenous source of...

For decades, racial profiling has been subject of intense debate in US jurisdiction. Recently, outcome tests based on economic models have contributed to the legal discourse. However, it is not readily obvious if and to what extent they also pertain to European jurisdiction, where racial profiling has only as of late stirred up controversy. In a comprehensive examination of their...

Der vorliegende Bericht dokumentiert die Arbeiten im Rahmen eines Forschungsprojektes, an welchem sich Immobilien Basel-Stadt, Stadt Zürich, Liegenschaftenverwaltung, SUVA, Swisscanto Asset Management AG, Swiss Life Property Management AG, UBS Fund Management (Switzerland) AG mit Immobiliendaten und Beiträgen an den Kosten beteiligten. Die Arbeit untersucht die finanzielle Relevanz...

Innovations are rarely generated in complete isolation. Due to the inherent uncertainty, the manifold underlying knowledge base and high financial investments, firms seek to integrate external partners for the generation of new products and processes. However there is an ongoing debate whether firms, which develop their innovations in close cooperation with external partners, such as...