infonet-economy

This paper reports an experiment examining the effect of social norms on pro-social behavior. We test two predictions derived from work in psychology regarding the influence of norms. The first is a “focusing” influence, whereby norms only impact behavior when an individual’s attention is drawn to them; and the second is an “informational” influence, whereby a norm exerts a stronger...

Within the discussion of voluntary proactive approaches to environmental protection, former microeconometric studies analyze the causal effect of the adoption of environmental management systems (EMS) on technological environmental innovations and find some positive impacts. Based on empirical studies which consider the effect of general innovativeness on the adoption of voluntary...

Several studies in the marketing literature show that perceptual brand metrics are related to the intangible value of a firm and improve the ability to predict future cash flows. Using perceptual brand data for the three largest economies in Europe, the authors extend previous research by investigating whether perceived brand familiarity, differentiation and energy are reliable...

Auch in Schwellenländern kann Wachstum erzielt werden. Vorausgesetzt Firmen binden die Menschen in ihre Projekte ein und sind bereit, ihre Produkte und Prozesse anzupassen.

Confronted with a rich sensory environment, the brain must learn statistical regularities across sensory domains to construct causal models of the world. Here, we used functional magnetic resonance imaging and dynamic causal modelling (DCM) to furnish neurophysiological evidence
that statistical associations are learnt, even when task-irrelevant. Subjects performed an audio-...

The Austrian Social Security Database (ASSD) is a matched firm-worker data set, which records the labor market history of almost 11 million individuals from January 1972 to April 2007. Moreover, more than 2.2 million firms can be identified. The individual labor market histories are described in the following dimensions: very detailed daily labor market states and yearly earnings at...