Publications des institutions partenaires

S'abonner aux flux infonet economy   2241 - 2260 of 5584

Optimal rules for patent races

There are two important rules to patent races: minimal accomplishment necessary to receive the patent and the allocation of the innovation benefits. We study the optimal combination of these rules. A planner, who cannot distinguish between competing firms in a multistage innovation race, chooses the patent rules by maximizing either consumer or social surplus. We show that efficiency...

Full Text

English / 01/01/2012

A test of the extreme value type I assumption in the bus engine replacement model

This note tests the assumption of dynamic discrete choice models that underlying utility shocks have an extreme value type I distribution. We find that extreme value type I shocks cannot be rejected in most specifications of the Rust (1987) bus engine replacement model.

Full Text

English / 01/01/2012

Financial innovation and asset price volatility

We compare asset prices in an overlapping generations model for incomplete and complete markets. Individuals within a generational cohort have heterogeneous beliefs about future states of the economy and thus would like to make bets against each other. In the incomplete-markets economy, agents cannot make such bets. Asset price volatility is very small. The situation changes...

Full Text

English / 01/01/2012

Employer Branding in Schweizer KMU – Ergebnisse einer empirischen Untersuchung zu wahrgenommener Bedeutung und Grundverständnis

Angesichts der sich kontinuierlich verschärfenden Wettbewerbsbedingungen auf dem Schweizer Arbeitgebermarkt sowie der ständig wachsenden Bedrohung, im Rennen um die "right potentials" gegenüber Großunternehmen in den Rückstand zu geraten, steigt der Bedarf an strategischen Handlungsalternativen im Personalmanagement von KMU in besonderer Weise. In diesem Zusammenhang zeigt...

Full Text

Deutsch / 01/01/2012

One for sure or maybe three - Empirical evidence for overtime play from a comparison of Swiss ice hockey and the NHL

In order to avoid too many tied games after playing the five-minute overtime period, the National Hockey League (NHL) introduced two rule changes in the 1999-2000 season. First, a team that loses in overtime receives one point instead of zero points. Second, the number of skaters in overtime is reduced from five to four. The theoretical literature analyzing these rule changes...

Full Text

English / 01/01/2012

International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS): Aus der Arbeit des IASB

Die vorliegende Rubrik gibt einen Überblick über wichtige und aktuelle Informationen zur internationalen Rechnungslegung. Dazu gehören unter anderem die Arbeit und das Arbeitsprogramm des International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) sowie des IFRS Interpretations Committee, die Überarbeitung bestehender und die Entwicklung neuer Standards sowie sonstige Verlautbarungen und...

Full Text

Deutsch / 01/01/2012

Das zukünftige Rechnungslegungsrecht: Überblick über den neu gefassten 32. Titel des OR

Der Beitrag informiert über die neuen Rechnungslegungsvorschriften, wobei Unternehmen in den Rechtsformen des OR im Vordergrund stehen. Für Vereine und Stiftungen sei auf den Beitrag von Zöbeli/Zihler in dieser Ausgabe verwiesen.

Full Text

Deutsch / 01/01/2012

IFRS aktuell: Neues aus dem Programm des IASB im 1. Quartal 2012

Regelmässig in r&c: wichtige und aktuelle Informationen zur internationalen Rechnungslegung. Dazu gehören unter anderem die Arbeit und das Arbeitsprogramm des International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) sowie des IFRS Interpretations Committee, die Überarbeitung bestehender und die Entwicklung neuer Standards sowie sonstige Verlautbarungen und aktuelle Informationen in diesem...

Full Text

Deutsch / 01/01/2012

Salary cap regulation in professional team sports

This paper analyzes the effects of a percentage-of-revenue salary cap in a team sports league with win-maximizing clubs and flexible talent supply. It shows that a percentage-of-revenue cap produces a more balanced league and decreases aggregate salary payments. Taking into account the idiosyncrasies of European football, our paper further highlights the potential conflicts between...

Full Text

English / 01/01/2012

Does online community participation foster risky financial behavior?

Although consumers increasingly use online communities for various activities, little is known about how participation in them affects people's decision-making strategies. Through a series of field and laboratory studies, the authors demonstrate that participation in an online community increases people's risk-seeking tendencies in their financial decisions and behaviors....

Full Text

English / 01/01/2012

Consolidated financial statements: an introduction

This textbook focuses on the theoretical and practical treatment of the challenges of consolidated financial statements, with an integrated and logical approach and careful attention to methodical and educational requirements. Applying current accounting theory, the most relevant topics of consolidation are demonstrated and illustrated with examples. It includes an overview of the...

Full Text

English / 01/01/2012

Pages

Le portail de l'information économique suisse

© 2016 Infonet Economy