P Mahler, Besseres Image dank Freiwilligenarbeit, In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 18, p. 75, 23 January 2010. (Newspaper Article)
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Christoph Eisenegger, Michael Naef, Romana Lucia Snozzi, Markus Heinrichs, Ernst Fehr, Prejudice and truth about the effect of testosterone on human bargaining behaviour, Nature, Vol. 463 (7279), 2010. (Journal Article)
Both biosociological and psychological models, as well as animal research, suggest that testosterone has a key role in social interactions. Evidence from animal studies in rodents shows that testosterone causes aggressive behaviour towards conspecifics. Folk wisdom generalizes and adapts these findings to humans, suggesting that testosterone induces antisocial, egoistic, or even aggressive human behaviours. However, many researchers have questioned this folk hypothesis, arguing that testosterone is primarily involved in status-related behaviours in challenging social interactions, but causal evidence that discriminates between these views is sparse. Here we show that the sublingual administration of a single dose of testosterone in women causes a substantial increase in fair bargaining behaviour, thereby reducing bargaining conflicts and increasing the efficiency of social interactions. However, subjects who believed that they received testosterone-regardless of whether they actually received it or not-behaved much more unfairly than those who believed that they were treated with placebo. Thus, the folk hypothesis seems to generate a strong negative association between subjects' beliefs and the fairness of their offers, even though testosterone administration actually causes a substantial increase in the frequency of fair bargaining offers in our experiment. |
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Peter Racz, SCRIPT: An Architecture for IPFIX Data Distribution, In: SCRIPT Public Workshop. 2010. (Conference Presentation)
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Cristian Morariu, Implementation of SCRIPT Mechanisms, In: SCRIPT Public Workshop. 2010. (Conference Presentation)
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Marc Chesney, Christine Hirszowicz, Brigitte Maranghino-Singer, Les paris sur la mort, le jeu dangereux des banques, In: Le Temps, p. 13, 15 January 2010. (Newspaper Article)
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Guilherme Sperb Machado, SWITCH InfoDay 2010: AMAAIS, Accounting and Monitoring of AAI Services, In: SWITCH InfoDay 2010. 2010. (Conference Presentation)
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Peter Illetschko, Thorsten Hens, Die Moral wird durch das Geld zerstört, In: Der Standard, 12 January 2010. (Media Coverage)
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Sven Seuken, Jie Tang, David C. Parkes, Accounting Mechanisms for Distributed Work Systems, In: Proceedings of the Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), Atlanta, GA, 2010. (Conference or Workshop Paper published in Proceedings)
In distributed work systems, individual users perform
work for other users. A significant challenge in these
systems is to provide proper incentives for users to
contribute as much work as they consume, even when
monitoring is not possible. We formalize the problem
of designing incentive-compatible accounting mechanisms
that measure the net contributions of users, despite
relying on voluntary reports. We introduce the
Drop-Edge Mechanism that removes any incentive for
a user to manipulate via misreports about work contributed
or consumed. We prove that Drop-Edge provides
a good approximation to a user’s net contribution,
and is accurate in the limit as the number of users grows.
We demonstrate very good welfare properties in simulation
compared to an existing, manipulable mechanism.
In closing, we discuss our ongoing work, including a
real-world implementation and evaluation of the Drop-
Edge Mechanism in a BitTorrent client. |
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Thorsten Hens, Rendite ohne Risiko, In: Finanz und Wirtschaft, p. 1, 9 January 2010. (Newspaper Article)
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Alexandra Arnold, Chefs sollen mehr Vertrauen schenken, In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 6, p. 75, 9 January 2010. (Newspaper Article)
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Marc Chesney, Christoph Weber-Berg, Banken ohne moralischen Kompass, UZH magazin: die Wissenschaftszeitschrift, 2010. (Journal Article)
Das moderne Finanzwesen hat sich von religiösen und moralischen Grundsätzen gelöst. Nicht so das «Islamic Banking». Die Scharia verbietet viele Finanzgeschäfte, die der Wirtschaft in der aktuellen Finanzkrise zum Verhängnis wurden. Das erweist sich jetzt als Vorteil: Die Verbote führen zu einem effektiven Risikomanagement. |
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Christian Jonathan Kascha, Francesco Ravazzolo, Combining inflation density forecasts, Journal of Forecasting, Vol. 29 (1-2), 2010. (Journal Article)
In this paper, we empirically evaluate competing approaches for combining inflation density forecasts in terms of Kullback–Leibler divergence. In particular, we apply a similar suite of models to four different datasets and aim at identifying combination methods that perform well throughout different series and variations of the model suite. We pool individual densities using linear and logarithmic combination methods. The suite consists of linear forecasting models with moving estimation windows to account for structural change. We find that combining densities is a much better strategy than selecting a particular model ex ante. While combinations do not always perform better than the best individual model, combinations always yield accurate forecasts and, as we show analytically, provide insurance against selecting inappropriate models. Logarithmic combinations can be advantageous, in particular if symmetric densities are preferred. |
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Daning Hu, Xinlei Zhao, Leon Zhao, Strategic Choices of Inter-organizational Information Systems: A Customer-Supplier Network Perspective, In: the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS ‘10), 2010. (Conference or Workshop Paper published in Proceedings)
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Thorsten Hens, Unvermeidbare Finanzrisiken, In: NZZ, Sonderbeilage Finanzjahr 2009, p. 6, 5 January 2010. (Newspaper Article)
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C Göth, Gerhard Schwabe, Navigation Support for Mobile Learning, In: Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences-43 (HICSS-43), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2010-01-05. (Conference or Workshop Paper published in Proceedings)
Mobile learning exposes learning to the natural environment. If this environment is large, the learners have to navigate to find the learning objects or to explore the environment. Current mobile learning systems provide only minimal navigational support. Prior studies report that conventional pedestrian information systems are not suited to mobile learning, as the learners focus too much on the navigation system. In this paper we analyze issues in navigational support and provide evidence for the lack of support in current systems. Then we propose and evaluate how mobile learning systems can not only provide better navigation support, but also prevent the focus problem. The tested concepts include using an aura to visualize the accuracy, using history visualization for orientation and browsing support, and using information pull to focus more on the environment. Recommendations for further research conclude the paper. |
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Helmut Max Dietl, Wettanbieter nutzen den Output des Fussballs ohne Gegenleistung, In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 2, p. 19, 5 January 2010. (Newspaper Article)
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Anja Feierabend, Wohlbefinden bei der Arbeit und zu Hause, In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 1, p. 73, 3 January 2010. (Newspaper Article)
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Merle Ederhof, Discretion in Bonus Plans, The Accounting Review, Vol. 85 (6), 2010. (Journal Article)
This study examines discretionary bonus payments by firms to senior-level executives. Interpreting discretionary bonuses as the result of implicit incentive contracts, I analyze an analytical model that includes a contractible and a non-contractible performance measure. The model yields the primary hypothesis that discretionary bonuses occur when the outcome of the contractible measure is either low or high, but not when the contractible outcome falls in the medium range. Based on a sample collected from public sources, I find empirical support for the notion that discretionary bonuses are paid based on non-contractible performance measures that are related to future financial performance. Moreover, discretionary bonus payments occur significantly more often when the contractible performance measure falls in the tails of the distribution. In contrast, I do not find support for the predictions that discretionary bonus payments are related to the manipulability of the contractible performance measures or that discretionary bonus payments are related to the power of the executives in the companies. |
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Merle Ederhof, Discretion in Managerial Bonus Pools, Foundations and Trends in Accounting, Vol. 5 (4), 2010. (Journal Article)
It is common practice for firms in a variety of industries to specify bonus pools that are available for distribution among a group of managers. While the actual size of the bonus pool may vary with the realization of certain financial metrics, for example, earnings growth or Return-on-Investment, the essential property of bonus pools is that the firm retains discretion in how the overall pool is divided among the target group of managers. An important advantage of discretionary bonus payments is that the persons in charge of administering the bonus pool are in a position to incorporate subjective, non-verifiable indicators of individual performance that would be impossible to specify contractually as part of an explicit incentive scheme. This paper synthesizes several strands of the recent principal-agent literature that have explored the structure and the relative efficiency of discretionary bonus pools. Our analysis is framed around a number of recurring themes. These include the value of subjective performance indicators for contracting purposes, the loss associated with subjective rather than objective information, and finally, the degree to which bonus pools entail more compression in the amounts of bonuses paid to managers. |
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Joseph Najnudel, Ashkan Nikeghbali, A Remarkable σ-finite Measure Associated with Last Passage Times and Penalisation Problems, In: Contemporary Quantitative Finance, Springer, Berlin, p. 77 - 97, 2010. (Book Chapter)
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