Shimon Kogan, Anthony M Kwasnica, Roberto A. Weber, Coordination in the presence of asset markets, American Economic Review, Vol. 101 (2), 2011. (Journal Article)
We explore the relationship between outcomes in a coordination game and a pre-play asset market where asset values are determined by outcomes in the subsequent coordination game. Across two experiments, we vary the payoffs from the market relative to the game, the degree of interdependence in the game, and whether traders' asset payoffs are dependent on outcomes in their own or another game. Markets lead to significantly lower efficiency across treatments, even when they produce no distortion of incentives in the game. Market prices forecast game outcomes. Our experiments shed light on how financial markets may influence affiliated economic outcomes. |
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Helga Fehr-Duda, Thomas Epper, Adrian Bruhin, Renate Schubert, Risk and rationality: The effects of mood and decision rules on probability weighting, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Vol. 78 (1-2), 2011. (Journal Article)
Empirical research has shown that people tend to overweight small probabilities and underweight large probabilities when valuing risky prospects, but little is known about factors influencing the shape of the probability weighting curve. Based on a laboratory experiment with monetary incentives, we demonstrate that pre-existing good mood is significantly associated with women’s probability weights: Women in a better than normal mood tend to weight probabilities relatively more optimistically. Many men, however, seem to be immunized against effects of incidental mood by applying a mechanical decision criterion such as maximization of expected value. |
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Donja Darai, Four empirical studies on games of investment and cooperation, University of Zurich, Faculty of Business, Economics and Informatics, 2011. (Dissertation)
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Holger Herz, Essays in organizational and personnel economics, University of Zurich, Faculty of Business, Economics and Informatics, 2011. (Dissertation)
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Sigrid Röhrs, Three essays on fiscal policy and government debt, University of Zurich, Faculty of Business, Economics and Informatics, 2011. (Dissertation)
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Silvia Teuber, Uschi Backes-Gellner, P Ryan, K Wagner, Mobility and Internal Labor Markets in a Comparison of Matched-pair Engineering Companies in the U.S., Japan, Germany, and Switzerland, In: Netzwerktreffen. 2011. (Conference Presentation)
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Uschi Backes-Gellner, Christian Rupietta, Simone Tuor Sartore, Educational Spillovers at the Firm-Level: Separating Type and Level of Education, In: Netzwerktreffen. 2011. (Conference Presentation)
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Uschi Backes-Gellner, Yvonne Oswald, Simone Tuor Sartore, Part-Time Work and Employer-Provided Training: Boon to Women and Bane to Men?, In: Netzwerktreffen. 2011. (Conference Presentation)
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Simon Janssen, Uschi Backes-Gellner, Simone Tuor Sartore, Vitalie Stancov, The Gender Pay Gap and Performance Pay: Is there Room for Discrimination?, In: Netzwerktreffen. 2011. (Conference Presentation)
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Deepak Dhungana, Norbert Seyff, Florian Graf, Research preview: Supporting end-user requirements elicitation using product line variability models, In: REFSQ 2011: 17th International Working Conference on Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality, Springer, Essen, 2011-03-28. (Conference or Workshop Paper published in Proceedings)
[Context and motivation] Product line variability models have been primarily used for product configuration purposes. We suggest that such models contain information that is relevant for early software engineering activities too. [Question/Problem] So far, the knowledge contained in variability models has not been used to improve requirements elicitation activities. State-of-the-art requirements elicitation approaches furthermore do not focus on the cost-effective identification of individual end-user needs, which, for example, is highly relevant for the customization of service-oriented systems. [Principal idea/results] The planned research will investigate how end-users can be empowered to document their individual needs themselves. We propose a tentative solution which facilitates end-users requirements elicitation by providing contextual information codified in software product line variability models. [Contribution] We present the idea of a “smart” tool for end-users allowing them to specify their needs and to customize, for example, a service-oriented system based on contextual information in variability models. |
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Nauman A Qureshi, Norbert Seyff, Anna Perini, Satisfying user needs at the right time and in the right place: A research preview, In: REFSQ 2011, Springer, Essen, 2011-03-28. (Conference or Workshop Paper published in Proceedings)
[Context and motivation] Most requirements engineering (RE) approaches involve analysts in gathering end-user needs. However, we promote the idea that future service-based applications should support end-users in expressing their needs themselves, while the system should be able to respond to these requests by combining existing services in a seamless way. [Question/problem] Research tackling this idea is limited. In this research preview paper we sketch a plan to investigate the following research questions: How can end-users be facilitated by a system to express new needs (e.g. goals, preferences)? How can the continuous analysis of end-user needs result in an appropriate solution? [Principal ideas/results] In our recent research, we have started to explore the idea of involving end-users in RE. Furthermore, we have proposed an architecture that allows performing RE at run-time. The purpose of the planned research is to combine and extend our recent work and to come up with a tool-based solution, which involves end-users in realizing self-adaptive services. Our research objectives include to continuously capture, communicate and analyze end-user needs and feedback in order to provide a tailored solution. [Contribution] In this paper we give a preview on the planned work. After reporting on our recent work we present our research idea and the research objectives in more detail. |
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Dustin Wüest, Martin Glinz, Flexible sketch-based requirements modeling, In: 17th International Working Conference on Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2011-03-28. (Conference or Workshop Paper published in Proceedings)
[Context and motivation] Requirements engineers and stakeholders like to create informal, sketchy models in order to communicate ideas and to make them persistent. They prefer pen and paper over current software modeling tools, because the former allow for any kind of sketches and do not break the creative flow. [Question/problem] To facilitate requirements management, engineers then need to manually transform the sketches into more formal models of requirements. This is a tedious, time-consuming task. Furthermore, there is a risk that the original intentions of the sketched models and informal annotations get lost in the transition. [Principal ideas/results] We present the idea for a seamless, tool-supported transition from informal, sketchy drafts to more formal models such as UML diagrams. Our approach uses an existing sketch recognizer together with a dynamic library of modeling symbols. This library can be augmented and modified by the user anytime during the sketching/modeling process. Thus, an engineer can start sketching without any restrictions, and can add both syntax and semantics later. Or the engineer can define a domain-specific modeling language with any degree of formality and adapt it on the fly. [Contribution] In this paper we describe how our approach combines the advantages of modeling with the freedom and ease of sketching in a way other modeling tools cannot provide. |
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Bruno Staffelbach, Personalmarketing - Die internen Dauerkunden, In: NZZ, 72, p. 79, 26 March 2011. (Newspaper Article)
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Silvia Teuber, Uschi Backes-Gellner, P Ryan, K Wagner, Varieties of Capitalism and its implications on the organizational structure in engineering plants in the USA, Switzerland, The UK and Germany, In: VET Congress. 2011. (Conference Presentation)
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Simon Janssen, Uschi Backes-Gellner, Wage Flexibility and Displacement Losses, In: VET Congress. 2011. (Conference Presentation)
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Regula Geel, Uschi Backes-Gellner, Career Entry and Success After Tertiary Vocational Education, In: VET Congress. 2011. (Conference Presentation)
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Bruno Cadonna, Johann Gamper, Michael Hanspeter Böhlen, Sequenced event set pattern matching, In: 14th International Conference on Extending Database Technology, Association for Computing Machinery, New York, USA, 2011-03-22. (Conference or Workshop Paper published in Proceedings)
Event pattern matching is a query technique where a sequence of input events is matched against a complex pattern that specifies constraints on extent, order, values, and quantification of matching events. The increasing importance of such query techniques is underpinned by a significant amount of research work, the availability of commercial products, and by a recent proposal to extend SQL for event pattern matching. The proposed SQL extension includes an operator PERMUTE, which allows to express patterns that match any permutation of a set of events. No implementation of this operator is known to the authors.In this paper, we study the sequenced event set pattern matching problem, which is the problem of matching a sequence of input events against a complex pattern that specifies a sequence of sets of events rather than a sequence of single events. Similar to the PERMUTE operator, events that match with a set specified in the pattern can occur in any permutation, whereas events that match with different sets have to be strictly consecutive, following the order of the sets in the pattern specification. We formally define the problem of sequenced event set pattern matching, propose an automaton-based evaluation algorithm, and provide a detailed analysis of its runtime complexity. An empirical evaluation with real-world data shows that our algorithm outperforms a brute force approach that uses existing techniques to solve the sequenced event set pattern matching problem, and it validates the results from our complexity analysis. |
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Anja Feierabend, Das Gehirn beim Arbeiten verstehen, In: NZZ, 66, p. 81, 19 March 2011. (Newspaper Article)
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Stéphane Guérard, Robin Gustafsson, Christoph Bode, Framing contests and Institutional change: The case of the automotive field and the environmental movement in Germany, In: Seventh New Institutionalism Workshop. 2011. (Conference Presentation)
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Andreas Scherer, Emilio Marti, The Normative Foundation of Finance, In: annual VHB WK WEW workshop. 2011. (Conference Presentation)
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