infonet-economy

In jüngster Zeit haben additive Fertigungsverfahren zunehmend an Aufmerksamkeit und Popularität gewonnen – nicht zuletzt aufgrund des vielfältigen Potenzials, das man sich von diesen relativ neuen Technologien verspricht. Im Rahmen der Logistikmarkstudie Schweiz wird anhand zweier Fallstudien aus der Praxis aufgezeigt, welche Auswirkungen ein Wechsel zur additiven Fertigung für das...

Cet article vise à montrer les principaux changements ou les principales conséquences qui découlent de la décision de mettre en œuvre les Swiss GAAP RPC, aussi bien les changements sur les états financiers que ceux liés au fonctionnement de l’entreprise. Il y sera également question de savoir en quoi les avantages de mettre en œuvre les Swiss GAAP RPC l’emportent sur les coûts qui en...

Professeur, chercheur, consultant RH, et co-auteur d’un livre vendu à plus de 10 000 exemplaires, François Gonin nous raconte son parcours, les convictions qui l’animent à promouvoir une gestion des RH centrée sur l’humain, stratégique et qui a du sens.

This paper provides evidence on the strategic lending decisions made by banks facing a negative funding shock. Using bank-firm level credit data, we show that banks reallocate credit within their domestic loan portfolio in at least three different ways. First, banks reallocate to sectors where they have high sector presence. Second, they also reallocate to sectors in which they are...

We extract an exogenous measure of gender bias from survey responses by descendants of U.S. immigrants on questions about the role of women in society. We then use data on around 6,000 small business firms from 17 countries and find that in high-gender-bias countries, female entrepreneurs are more likely to opt out of the loan application process and to resort to informal finance,...

Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is a leading diagnosed health condition among children in many developed countries but the causes underlying these high levels of ADHD remain highly controversial. Recent research for the U.S., Canada and some European countries shows that children who enter school relatively young have higher ADHD rates than their older peers,...

We study production networks where firms’ products can be described by a set of input and output characteristics, and links are formed only if the output characteristics of a seller match the input characteristics of a customer. We introduce a fully endogenous network formation model with monopolistically competitive firms, in which firms exit due to exogenous shocks, or the...