infonet-economy

Derzeit wird im Versicherungssektor intensiv über eine fundamentale Reform der Versicherungsaufsicht diskutiert. Ausgangspunkt ist die Kritik an den aktuellen EU-Solvabilitätsvorschriften, die nur sehr eingeschränkt auf ökonomischen Überlegungen fussen. Vielmehr sind diese vor allem anhand des politisch motivierten, europaweiten Einigungsprozesses im Rahmen der Verabschiedung der...

The overall target of the Swiss Energy Policy is to reduce CO2-emissions and thereby to achieve the vision of an energy-efficient ‘2000 Watt per Capita Society'. A major instrument to contribute to the vision in the residential building sector is standards about energy-efficient building designs. However, new residual houses according to the energy-efficiency standard are not as...

Vor 200 Jahren wurde der Rheinbund gegründet. Erst in ihm entstanden die Grundlagen des modernen deutschen Föderalismus. (http://www.welt.de/print-welt/article228798/Mit-dem-Makel-der-Kollaborat...)

This paper studies a program that extends the maximum duration of unemployment benefits from 30 weeks to 209 weeks. Interestingly, this program is targeted to individuals aged 50nyears or older, living in certain eligible regions in Austria. In the evaluation, I use sharp discontinuities in treatment assignment at age 50 and at the border between eligible regions and control regions...

Many countries are forging ahead with convenient balloting methods, in particular electronic and postal voting, in order to re-engage voters. In this paper, we test whether thencost reductions with postal voting increase turnout. The empirical analysis is based on annewly collected data set on the introduction of postal voting in Swiss cantons. We take advantage of the unique fact...

Multigroup confirmatory factor analysis was applied to the responses of 4, 909 employees of a multinational organization with locations in 50 countries to examine the measurement equivalence of otherwise identical Web-based and paper-and-pencil versions of 20 items comprising the transformational leadership component of Bass and Avolio's Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire. The...

The article comments on a paper by van der Smagt on the social construction of shared realities and models. According to the theory of social constructivism, collective cognition is perceived as a social process by which such creation and representation often take place. The research focuses on the difference between causation and constitution.