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Business-humanitarian partnerships: processes of normative legitimation
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
English / 08/12/2016
Liquidity-driven FDI
We develop a model of foreign direct investment (FDI) in which financially liquid foreign firms acquire liquidity-constrained target firms. Using a large dataset of emerging-market acquisitions, we find evidence supporting three central predictions of the model: (i) firms in external finance dependent and intangible sectors are more likely to be targets of foreign acquisitions; (ii)...
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
English / 25/10/2016
Can countries rely on foreign saving for investment and economic development?
A surprisingly large number of countries have been able to finance a significant fraction of domestic investment using foreign finance for extended periods. While many of these episodes are in low-income countries where official finance is more important than private finance, this paper also identifies a number of episodes where a substantial fraction of domestic investment was...
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
English / 29/08/2016
Making the next billion demand access: the local content effect of google.co.za in Setswana
Recent attempts to connect the current ‘next billion’ to the Internet in places such as sub-Saharan Africa have not met expectations. In places where Internet infrastructure has come online and prices have gone down, the expected consequent increase in uptake was not observed. I develop a framework that incorporates language in the the two-sided markets framework, viewing differences...
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
English / 24/08/2016
The quest to lower high remittance costs to Africa: a brief review of the use of mobile banking and bitcoins
The paper reviews the latest technological tools that arguably can contribute to reducing the excessively high costs of remittance transactions in Africa. Indeed, despite huge remittance inflows to and within the continent, Africa is the most expensive destination to send money to. As remittances have become more important than Overseas Development Assistance and Foreign Direct...
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
English / 15/03/2016
Fire-sale FDI or business as usual?
Motivated by a set of stylized facts, we develop a model of cross-border mergers and acquisitions (M&As;) to study foreign direct investment (FDI) in emerging markets. We compare acquisitions undertaken during financial crises – so called fire-sale FDI –with acquisitions made during non-crisis periods to examine whether the outcomes differ in the ways predicted by the model....
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
English / 11/03/2016
Retombées économiques de l'aide publique au développement en Suisse: étude 2014
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
English / 22/02/2016
Lipschitz and Hölder stability of optimization problems and generalized equations
This paper studies stability aspects of solutions of parametric mathematical programs and generalized equations, respectively, with disjunctive constraints. We present sufficient conditions that, under some constraint qualifications ensuring metric subregularity of the constraint mapping, continuity results of upper Lipschitz and upper Hölder type, respectively, hold. Furthermore, we...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2016
Human resource management and radical innovation: a fuzzy-set QCA of US multinationals in Germany, Switzerland, and the UK
This paper explores, based on the varieties-of-capitalism approach, configurations of key human resource management practices that explain radical innovation in subsidiaries. A fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis is conducted with data for 69 subsidiaries of US-based MNEs in Germany, Switzerland, and the UK. Contrary to the implications of the varieties-of-capitalism...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2016
Effectiveness of Social Media Communication - An Empirical Analysis of Key Performance Drivers
Despite the fact that most companies have embraced social media as part of the mar-keting mix, there still remains a significant lack of knowledge as to what drives com-munication effectiveness in this new kind of peer-to-peer environment where tradi-tional, well-settled marketing communication paradigms like domination and control do show their limits. Accordingly, corporate...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2016
Stochastic Integrated Assessment of Ecosystem Tipping Risk
One of the major potential consequences of climate change is damage to earth’s ecosystems, damage which could manifest itself in the form of tipping risks. We establish an economic growth model of ecosystem tipping risks, set in the context of possible forest dieback. We consider different specifications of impacts arising from the forest dieback tipping point, specifications such as...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2016
Business statesman or shareholder advocate? CEO responsible leadership styles and the micro-foundations of Political CSR
In this article we pursue two objectives. First, we refine the concept of responsible leadership from an upper echelon perspective by exploring two distinct styles (instrumental and integrative) and thereby further developing the understanding of the newly emerging integrative style. Second, we propose a framework that examines the micro-foundations of political corporate social...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2016
Corporate social responsibility and human resource management: A systematic review and conceptual analysis
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2016
Decomposing the effects of online customer reviews on brand, price, and product attributes
Online customer reviews (OCRs) have become a major source of information for customers in the Internet. Understanding the impact of OCRs on customers' decisions is an important challenge for academics and practitioners. We apply a choice-based conjoint experiment that combines all relevant levels of the OCR dimensions (valence, volume, and variance) and that estimates the effect...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2016
The interplay of human resource management and job boredom: a behavioural perspective
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2016
Do casinos pay their customers to become risk-averse? Revising the house money effect in a natural experiment
In order to promote risky behavior, it is a common practice that casinos incentivize their customers through the provision of free financial means, i.e., free play. Thereby, casino operators try to exploit what is known as the house money effect. However, evidence from the field is scarce and prior research provides explanations that predict different behavioral outcomes. This...
Institution partenaire
English / 07/12/2015
Closing the gender gap in education: what is the state of gaps in labour force participation for women, wives and mothers?
The educational gender gap has closed or reversed in many countries. But what of gendered labour market inequalities? Using micro-level census data for some 40 countries, the authors examine the labour force participation gap between men and women, the “marriage gap” between married and single women’s participation, and the “motherhood gap” between mothers’ and nonmothers’...
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
English / 12/10/2015
Does public sector control reduce variance in school quality?
Does the government control of school systems facilitate equality in school quality? Whether centralized or localized control produces more equality depends not only on what ‘could’ happen in principle, but also on what does happen in practice. We use the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) database to examine the association between school sector and the variance...
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
English / 12/10/2015
Institutions, corporate governance and capital flows
Countries with weaker domestic investor protection hold less diversified international portfolios. An equilibrium business cycle model of North-South capital flow with corporate governance frictions between outside investors and corporate insiders explains this phenomenon through two channels. First,weak governance leads to concentrated ownership in the South because international...
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
English / 05/10/2015
The impact of three Mexican nutritional programs: the case of Dif-Puebla
This paper presents an impact evaluation of three nutritional programs implemented in Puebla, Mexico, run by SEDIF, a social assistance institution. The present study uses both a propensity score matching and weighting in order to balance the treatment and the control groups in terms of observable characteristics, and to estimate, later on, the causal effect of the programs on...
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
English / 23/07/2015
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