infonet-economy

Im Schweizer HR-Barometer 2009 werden neben allgemeinen Trends die Themen Mobilität und Arbeitgeberattraktivität eingehend untersucht. Erfasst werden das tatsächliche Mobilitätsverhalten und die potenzielle Bereitschaft der Arbeitnehmenden, sich in der Arbeitswelt «mobil» zu verhalten. Weiter wird untersucht,welche Faktoren dazu führen, dass Unternehmen für Arbeitnehmende attraktiv...

We study the impact of reputational incentives in markets characterized by moral hazard problems. Social preferences have been shown to enhance contract enforcement in these markets, while at the same time generating considerable wage and price rigidity. Reputation powerfully amplifies the positive effects of social preferences on contract enforcement by increasing contract...

The mismatch negativity (MMN) is a brain response to violations of a rule, established by a sequence of sensory stimuli (typically in the auditory domain) [Näätänen R. Attention and brain function. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum; 1992]. The MMN reflects the brain’s ability to perform automatic comparisons between consecutive stimuli and provides an electrophysiological index of...

In this thesis, I examine the diffusion process for a complex medical technology, the PET scanner, in two different health care systems, one of which is more marketoriented (Switzerland) and the other more centrally managed by a public agency (Quebec). The research draws on institutional and socio-political theories of the diffusion of innovations to examine how institutional...

We consider sample covariance matrices constructed from real or complex i.i.d. variates with finite 12th moment. We assume that the population covariance matrix is positive definite and its spectral measure almost surely converges to some limiting probability distribution as the number of variables and the number of observations go to infinity together, with their ratio converging to...

Das elektronische Angebot kostenpflichtiger digitaler Produkte gewinnt für viele Unternehmen an Bedeutung. Infolge der Digitalisierung verfügen solche Produkte allerdings über spezielle ökonomische Eigenschaften, welche die Durchsetzung eines kostenpflichtigen Angebotes wiederum erschweren. Um die so bedingten Schwierigkeiten im Angebot digitaler Produkte zu reduzieren,...

We replicate the strategy-method experiment by Fischbacher et al. (Econ. Lett. 71:397-404, 2001) developed to measure attitudes towards cooperation in a one-shot public goods game. We collected data from 160 students at four different universities across urban and rural Russia. Using the classification proposed by Fischbacher et al. (2001) we find that the distribution of types is...

Is social capital a substitute or a complement to formal institutions for achieving economic growth? A number of recent micro studies suggest that interpersonal trust has its greatest impact on economic performance when court institutions are relatively weak. The conventional wisdom from most macro studies, however, is that social capital is unconditionally good for growth. On the...