Daniel Halbheer, Ernst Fehr, Lorenz Götte, Armin Schmutzler, Self-reinforcing market dominance, Games and Economic Behavior, Vol. 67 (2), 2009. (Journal Article)
Are initial competitive advantages self-reinforcing, so that markets exhibit an endogenous tendency to be dominated by only a few firms? Although this question is of great economic importance, no systematic empirical study has yet addressed it. Therefore, we examine experimentally whether firms with an initial cost advantage are more likely to invest in marginal cost reductions than firms with higher initial costs. We find that the initial competitive advantages are indeed self-reinforcing, but subjects in the role of firms overinvest relative to the Nash equilibrium. However, the pattern of overinvestment even strengthens the tendency towards self-reinforcing cost advantages relative to the theoretical prediction. Further, as predicted by the Nash equilibrium, mean-preserving spreads of the initial cost distribution have no effects on aggregate investments. Finally, investment spillovers reduce investment, and investment is higher than the joint-profit maximizing benchmark for the case without spillovers and lower for the case with spillovers. |
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Peter Zweifel, Warum Schweizer Politiker am Gesundheitswesen scheitern: Grundsätzliche Überlegungen zum Rücktritt Pascal Couchepins, In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Nr. 15, p. 25, 4 July 2009. (Newspaper Article)
Die Gesundheitsausgaben steigen seit langem zügig, und alle Versuche der Politik, dies zu dämpfen, erscheinen mehr oder
weniger erfolglos. Der Gesundheitsökonom Peter Zweifel legt dar, wie die grundlegenden Kräfte bei der Entwicklung
des Gesundheitssektors wirken, welche Rolle Bundes- und Kantonspolitiker spielen können und wie sich die Konflikte
zwischen Bürgern und Politikern in jüngerer Zeit verschärft haben. |
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Andrei Aurel Vancea, Answering Queries Using Cooperative Semantic Caching, In: Answering Queries Using Cooperative Semantic Caching. 2009. (Conference Presentation)
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Dennis Schoeneborn, Patrick Haack, Andreas Scherer, How terrorist organizations transcend their inherent improbability: A communication perspective on the organizational dimension of terrorism, In: European Group of Organizational Studies (EGOS) Colloquium. 2009. (Conference Presentation)
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Patrick Haack, Dennis Schoeneborn, Christopher Wickert, Exploring an unexpected love story of business and society logics: A case study on the Equator Principles standard in international project finance, In: European Group of Organizational Studies (EGOS) Colloquium. 2009. (Conference Presentation)
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Jochen Menges, Organizational-level affect : antecedents, boundary conditions, and consequences of emotional climates and competencies, University of St. Gallen, Graduate School of Business Administration, Economics, Law and Social Sciences (HSG), 2009. (Dissertation)
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Jean-Marc Meier, Technische Aktienanalyse: Wertpapieranalyse am Beispiel Aktienmarkt Schweiz, University of Zurich, Faculty of Economics, Business Administration and Information Technology, 2009. (Bachelor's Thesis)
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Molitor Marie-Christine, Methoden der Mikrokreditvergabe und ihre Anwendung im klassischen Bankbetrieb, University of Zurich, Faculty of Economics, Business Administration and Information Technology, 2009. (Bachelor's Thesis)
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Patricia Diana, Measuring Social Performance of Microfinance Institutions in Peru, University of Zurich, Faculty of Economics, Business Administration and Information Technology, 2009. (Bachelor's Thesis)
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Markus Bürgi, Measuring implied default probabilities in the financial sector, University of Zurich, Faculty of Economics, Business Administration and Information Technology, 2009. (Master's Thesis)
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Thomas Bocek, PeerCollaboration with PSH, P2PFastSS, and PeerVote, In: 3nd International Conference on Autonomous Infrastructure, Management and Security (AIMS 2009). 2009. (Conference Presentation)
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Thomas Bocek, PeerVote: A Decentralized Voting Mechanism for P2P Collaboration Systems, In: 3rd International Conference on Autonomous Infrastructure, Management and Security (AIMS 2009). 2009. (Conference Presentation)
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Ralf Ferken, Thorsten Hens, Zurück zu den Wurzeln, In: €uro, 1 July 2009. (Media Coverage)
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Margit Osterloh, Was hat die Finanzmarktkrise mit Rankings zu tun, In: Zeitschrift Führung und Organisation, 4, p. 231 - 232, 1 July 2009. (Newspaper Article)
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Margit Osterloh, Was hat die Finanzmarktkrise mit Hochschul-Rankings zu tun?, In: Zeitschrift Führung und Organisation, 4, p. 231 - 232, 1 July 2009. (Newspaper Article)
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"The Changing Role of Business in a Global Society: New Challenges and Responsibilities", Edited by: Andreas Scherer, G Palazzo, D Matten, Philosophy Documentation Center, United States, 2009-07. (Edited Scientific Work)
This special issue assesses some of the implications of globalization for the scholarly debate on business ethics, CSR and related concepts |
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Andreas Scherer, G Palazzo, D Matten, Introduction to the special issue: Globalization as a Challenge for Business Responsibilities, Business Ethics Quarterly, Vol. 19 (3), 2009. (Journal Article)
This paper assesses some of the implications of globalization for the scholarly debate on business ethics, CSR and related concepts. The argument is based, among other things, on the declining capacity of nation state institutions to regulate socially desirable corporate behavior as well as the growing corporate exposure to heterogeneous social, cultural and political values in societies globally. It is argued that these changes are shifting the corporate role towards a sphere of societal governance hitherto dominated by traditional political actors. This leads to a discussion of the ambivalent results of such a process for a responsible corporate role in a globalized world. While assessing the current reception these changes have received in the management literature, the contribution of the four papers of this Special Issues are framed and evaluated. The argument closes by highlighting avenues of future research on this new challenge. |
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Margit Osterloh, Was hat die Finanzmarktkrise mit Hochschul-Rankings zu tun?, Zeitschrift Führung und Organisation (zfo), Vol. 78 (4), 2009. (Journal Article)
Mit der Finanzmarkt- und Wirtschaftskrise ist auch die Wirtschaftswissenschaft in eine Krise geraten. Zahlreich sind die Beiträge, die fragen, warum die »Königin der Sozialwissenschaften diese Entwicklungen nicht vorhergesehen
hat. Jenseits der simplifizierenden und wenig hilfreichen Klage der »maßlosen Gier«, welche es zu bekämpfen gelte,
werden vor allem zwei grundsätzliche Fehlentwicklungen benannt. |
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J Driver, F Blankenburg, S Bestmann, W Vanduffel, Christian Ruff, Concurrent brain-stimulation and neuroimaging for studies of cognition, Trends in Cognitive Sciences, Vol. 13 (7), 2009. (Journal Article)
Neuroimaging can address activity across the entire brain in relation to cognition, but is typically correlative rather than causal. Brain stimulation can target a local brain area causally, but without revealing the entire network affected. Combining brain stimulation with concurrent neuroimaging allows a new causal approach to how interplay between extended networks of brain regions can support cognition. Brain stimulation does not affect only the targeted local region but also activity in remote interconnected regions. These remote effects depend on cognitive factors (e.g. task-condition), revealing dynamic changes in interplay between brain areas. We illustrate this with examples from top-down modulation of visual cortex, response-competition, inter-hemispheric rivalry and motor tasks; but the new approach should be applicable to many domains of cognition. |
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M J Naumer, O Doehrmann, N G Müller, L Muckli, J Kaiser, G Hein, Cortical plasticity of audio-visual object representations, Cerebral Cortex, Vol. 19 (7), 2009. (Journal Article)
Several regions in human temporal and frontal cortex are known to integrate visual and auditory object features. The processing of audio-visual (AV) associations in these regions has been found to be modulated by object familiarity. The aim of the present study was to explore training-induced plasticity in human cortical AV integration. We used functional magnetic resonance imaging to analyze the neural correlates of AV integration for unfamiliar artificial object sounds and images in naïve subjects (PRE training) and after a behavioral training session in which subjects acquired associations between some of these sounds and images (POST-training). In the PRE-training session, unfamiliar artificial object sounds and images were mainly integrated in right inferior frontal cortex (IFC). The POST-training results showed extended integration-related IFC activations bilaterally, and a recruitment of additional regions in bilateral superior temporal gyrus/sulcus and intraparietal sulcus. Furthermore, training-induced differential response patterns to mismatching compared with matching (i.e., associated) artificial AV stimuli were most pronounced in left IFC. These effects were accompanied by complementary training-induced congruency effects in right posterior middle temporal gyrus and fusiform gyrus. Together, these findings demonstrate that short-term cross-modal association learning was sufficient to induce plastic changes of both AV integration of object stimuli and mechanisms of AV congruency processing. |
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