infonet-economy

Countries with large debts stocks are vulnerable to the vagaries of the markets. Confidence crises can arise out of nowhere, constricting access to the markets. Hence, the question arises as to whether these countries should put in place mechanisms that will help them better prepare for the possibility of crisis. In effect, the choice is whether to buy insurance. The cost of buying...

Organizations face multiple conflicting requirements such as exploration versus exploitation (March, 1991), profit versus social responsibility (Margolis & Walsh, 2003) or collaboration versus control (Sundaramurthy & Lewis, 2003). As complexity, global competition and fast-paced technological cycles gain prevalence, these tensions are becoming increasingly salient (Lewis,...

Parra Moyano, Jose. Three essays on the management and economics of blockchain-based systems. 2019, University of Zurich, Faculty of Economics.

de Rassenfosse, Gaétan; Kozak, Jan; Seliger, Florian

Since the early 2000s, many Latin American countries achieved remarkable economic growth coupled with poverty and inequality reduction, largely due to the pursuit of a centuries-old pattern of commodity exports. The end of the commodity price super-cycle in 2014 puts some of these development gains in jeopardy, raising anxiety among emerging middle classes wary of slipping back into...

Meuwissen, Miranda P.M.; Feindt, Peter H.; Spiegel, Alisa; Termeer, Catrien J.A.M.; Mathijs, Erik; de Mey, Yann; Finger, Robert; Balmann, Alfons; Wauters, Erwin; Urquhart, Julie; Vigani, Mauro; Zawalińska, Katarzyna; Herrera, Hugo; Nicholas-Davies, Phillipa; Hansson, Helena; Paas, Wim; Slijper, Thomas; Coopmans, Isabeau; Vroege, Willemijn; Ciechomska, Anna; Accatino, Francesco;...

Köthenbürger, Marko; Anderes, Marc

Pusterla, Filippo; Oswald-Egg, Maria Esther

In: European Journal of Operational Research, 2015, vol. 240, no. 2, p. 505-517