infonet-economy

Le taux de réponse est un item clé de la mesure de l’efficacité d’une enquête en ligne. Cependant, les recherches menées dans ce domaine constatent une diminution de ce taux qui peut être expliquée, notamment par la surexposition des répondants aux enquêtes en ligne. En comparant une enquête en ligne standard adressée par un logiciel de gestion d’enquête grand public et une enquête...

Inventory managers do not predominantly follow normative optimization models. At best, they introduce a level of bounded rationality in their inventory replenishment decisions. This paper examines the behavior of inventory decision-makers under continuous review in a decentralized supply chain, using an experimental approach with unknown market demand and local information...

Following the entry into force of the Paris Agreement in November 2016, governments around the world are now expected to turn their nationally determined contributions into concrete climate policies. Given the global public good nature of climate change mitigation and the important cross-country differences in marginal abatement costs, distributing mitigation efforts across countries...

Choosing the right professional that has to meet indeterminate requirements is a critical aspect in humanitarian development and implementation projects. This paper proposes a hybrid evaluation methodology for some non-governmental organizations enabling them to select the most competent expert who can properly and adequately develop and implement humanitarian projects. This...

This study aims to analyse the discretionary fiscal policy of Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, and Russia for the period 2003-2015 using the structural budget balance (SBB). The SBB considers the permanent component of oil revenue and therefore clearly defines the discretionary fiscal position and the aggregate demand effect of fiscal policy. The SBBs in Azerbaijan and Russia experience a...

Cet ouvrage réunit les communications présentées en 2016 à Neuchâtel lors de la 11e Journée de recherche en marketing horloger. Il présente également les exposés et tables rondes qui ont eu lieu à la 20e Journée internationale du marketing horloger à La Chaux-de-Fonds. Il fait suite aux autres ouvrages de la même collection qui ont pour but de faire rayonner le savoir-faire des...

Ethics by Design concerns the methods, algorithms and tools needed to endow autonomous agents with the capability to reason about the ethical aspects of their decisions, and the methods, tools and formalisms to guarantee that an agent’s behavior remains within given moral bounds. In this context some questions arise: How and to what extent can agents un-derstand the social reality in...