infonet-economy

This paper empirically assesses how financial risk aversion reacts to a change in individuals’ wealth and health and to the introduction of both financial and health risks using the Survey of Health, Ageing, and Retirement in Europe (SHARE). Individuals in our sample exhibit financial risk aversion decreasing both in wealth and health. Financial risk aversion is also found to...

Ideally, the price of a service should take into account the cost structure, the perceived value to customers and the competition. Apparently, the only method satisfying these properties which is valid even for non-homogeneous services was proposed by Debély et al. (2008) and Fragnière et al. (2008). However, this method has a major drawback: to be able to construct the model, one...

Der Ausbau der Stromproduktion aus erneuerbaren Energien ist ein wichtiger Pfeiler der Energiestrategie 2050 des Bundes. Der Bau und Betrieb von Kraftwerken steht indessen regelmässig in Konflikt mit ebenso legitimen Anliegen des Natur- und Heimtatschutzes. Die rechtlichen Hürden, die ein entsprechendes Projekt zu überwinden hat, sind dadurch in der Regel hoch. Das für den...

This paper suggests a tentative conceptual framework to study the internationalization of foreign/OECD-based SMEs (Small and Medium-sized Enterprises) attracted by fast growing emerging markets, such as China and other Asian economies, and the supportive role of global cities as market gate focal points providing a wide range of financial and non-financial services facilitating...

L’article se focalise sur les pratiques actuelles d’évaluation, en Suisse et en France, dans le contexte des offres publiques d’achat. Les auteurs exposent successivement leur méthodologie, leurs principaux résultats et quelques enjeux pratiques et académiques.

Cette recherche vise à expliquer l’intention entrepreneuriale des étudiants dans deux contexte s ; algérien et français. L’ancrage théo rique se concentre sur les modèles intentionnels et s’appuie sur la t héorie du comportement planifié (Ajzen, 1991) . Les résultats ont permis de montrer certaines ressemblances et dissemblances dans les croyances ainsi qu’une différence dans l’...

During the last three decades several hundred papers have been published on the broad topic of “program comprehension”. The goal was always the same: to develop models and tools to help developers with program understanding during program maintenance. However few authors targeted the more fundamental question: “what is program understanding” or, other words, proposed a model of...

In this paper, we examine the efficiency of the sort done by the Swiss lower secondary school tracking system, looking at students’ outcomes in dual vocational education and training (VET)—the most common education type at the upper secondary level in the country. We discuss a simple Ricardian model about the process of school tracking based on the absolute advantage (i.e., the...

In this paper, we examine the efficiency of the sort done by the Swiss lower secondary school tracking system, looking at students’ outcomes in dual vocational education and training (VET)—the most common education type at the upper secondary level in the country. We discuss a simple Ricardian model about the process of school tracking based on the absolute advantage (i.e., the...