infonet-economy

In recent years, venture capital has become an important source for financing young entrepreneurial firms. Given the apparently more innovative nature and extra value added of venture capital backed firms compared to other firms, policy makers have taken an increasing interest in an active venture capital industry. We explore how selected policy instruments determine the incentives...

Almost 15 years after Unification in 1990, Germany is still struggling with the economic consequences of this event. Although the East German economy has made considerable progress since its near-collapse after the German monetary, economic and social union in July 1990, the East German labour market has not yet recovered. Western Germany, which had to bear a substantial part of the...

Unternehmen werden finanziell anhand ihrer Zahlungsüberschüsse
bewertet, die sie aufgrund eines Geschäftsplans in der Zukunft erzeugen.
Der Unternehmenswert ist gleich der Summe der Barwerte der
zukünftigen Zahlungen. Vielfach kann der Barwert einer jeden dieser
zukünftigen, unsicheren Zahlungen durch die traditionelle Diskontierung
mit einer...

This study aimed at investigating the relationship between the observed personnel practices of training participation in Switzerland and the attitudes towards older employees. A German version of the "Beliefs about older workers" questionnaire was applied in two organizations to cross check the known results from literature in a Swiss region. There were 154 subjects in the...

In this chapter, I will provide a brief overview of the "gender and diversity landscape" at Swiss universities. I will begin by presenting some information about the higher education system in Switzerland and looking at the relevance of gender and diversity management. I will then discuss in greater detail the situation of equal opportunity initiatives at Swiss universities...