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Central Bank Reserves and the Yield Curve at the ZLB

With short term interest rates bounded at zero, monetary policy has aimed at affecting the yield curve at the longer end during the recent years. As the recent literature has shown, the quantitative easing programs conducted by the Federal reserve have significantly lowered long-term yields. This paper adds central bank reserves as a fourth factor to an affine term structure model to...

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English / 01/01/2012

Spacing Organization: non-representational theory and performing organizational space

This article connects to and extends the attempts to bring space back into critical organizational theory, which, we argue, has mainly been based on the socio-spatial perspective as pioneered by Henri Lefebvre. Taking issue with the various ways in which Lefebvre's work can be interpreted, we develop an alternative route. Adopting a mode of non-representational theorizing as...

English / 01/01/2012

Exploring 'the Other' at work. Gender and Diversity in Organizations

This synopsis provides a concise overview of my contributions to the field of gender and diversity in organizations. Organizing my publications as 10 contributions to four distinctive themes of ‘exploring the Other' allowed me to briefly situate my work in the context of the field's four major debates of the last decade. First, my contributions to the theme of the ‘re-...

English / 01/01/2012

Feel it! Das Management der Emotionen

Ein Diskussion zwischen Eva Ulouz, Linda Williams, Dorthe Staunas und Chris Steyaert, moderiert von Scott Loren

Deutsch / 01/01/2012

Listening to Narratives

English / 01/01/2012

"Natural hedging" of exchange rate risk : The role of imported input prices

Using disaggregated quarterly trade data for Switzerland over 2004-2011, we study exchange rate pass through (ERPT) into imported intermediate input prices and its role in the price setting behavior of exporters. We explicitly include disaggregated proxies for imported input prices in our analyses to investigate whether Swiss exporters may have "naturally hedged" exchange...

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English / 01/01/2012

Volatile Top Income Shares in Switzerland? : Reassessing the Evolution Between 1981 and 2008

We study the recent evolution of top incomes in Switzerland. We close the data gap between 1993 and 2003 exploiting the fact that cantons changed their tax system at different points in time which allows us to use the non-changing cantons as control group. The results show that the share of top incomes has risen, the top 0.01% share even doubled in the last 20 years. However, top...

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English / 01/01/2012

The Dangerous Rise of Economic Interventionism

This paper reviews the economic interventions by governments and central banks in response to the 2007-2009 financial and economic crisis.

In the area of trade policy, we find that protectionism has increased substantially, with governments targeting in particular the products of declining industries and financial services. Nevertheless, spiralling protectionism as in the...

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English / 01/01/2012

KMU-Tag Studie 2012 : Vom Umgang mit Widersprüchen

Die zentralen Erkenntnisse in der Auseinandersetzung mit dem Tagungsthema sind folgende:

Erkenntnis 1: Oft sprechen wir von logischen Widersprüchen, meinen dabei jedoch eher Ambivalenzen, Paradoxien, Dilemma, Dualitäten oder Konflikte / Spannungen und Scheinwidersprüche. Ein «echter» Widerspruch ist etwas sehr Grundlegendes, Gesetzmässiges; die anderen Begriffe umschreiben,...

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Deutsch / 01/01/2012

Fit für den KMU-Alltag : 7x3 Fragen und Antworten zur erfolgreichen Unternehmensführung

Aus Anlass des 10. Schweizer KMU-Tages 2012 in St.Gallen haben dessen Organisatoren - Urs Fueglistaller, Roger Tinner und Walter Weber - ein Buch zum Thema «Fit für den KMU-Alltag» geschrieben. Es beantwortet 7x3 Fragen zur Führungspraxis in Klein- und Mittelunternehmen (KMU).
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In kleinen, leicht verdaulichen Häppchen begleitet das Buch Unternehmerinnen und...

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Deutsch / 01/01/2012

Der Emotionale Wert als Chance für die Schweiz

Die Praxis zeigt sehr häufig, dass eine Unternehmensbewertung Erwartungshaltungen schafft, welche im Prozess oft nicht eingelöst werden können und in der Folge die grosse Enttäuschung eintrifft oder gar ganze Nachfolgeprozesse abgebrochen werden.
Entgegen der allgemeinen Meinung in der Literatur stellen wir vorliegend den Grundsatz in Frage, dass ein Transaktionspreis mittels...

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Deutsch / 01/01/2012

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