Dorothée Baumann-Pauly, Andreas Scherer, The Role of Private Business in Global Governance. The Implementation of the UNGC at Swiss MNCs, In: invited presentation at the United Nations Global Compact Office. 2009. (Conference Presentation)
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Andrea Schenker-Wicki, Innovation, Accountability und Performance, In: Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Hochschulforschung. 2009. (Conference Presentation)
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Fabrizio Zilibotti, Meine Welt von Morgen, In: Financial Times Deutschland, p. ?, 21 April 2009. (Newspaper Article)
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Richard M Bittman, Joseph P Romano, Carlos Vallarino, Michael Wolf, Optimal testing of multiple hypotheses with common effect direction, Biometrika, Vol. 96 (2), 2009. (Journal Article)
We present a theoretical basis for testing related endpoints. Typically, it is known how to construct tests of the individual hypotheses, and the problem is how to combine them into a multiple test procedure that controls the familywise error rate. Using the closure method, we emphasize the role of consonant procedures, from an interpretive as well as a theoretical viewpoint, and introduce a new procedure, which is consonant and has a maximin property under the normal model. The results are then applied to PROactive, a clinical trial designed
to investigate the effectiveness of a glucose-lowering drug on macrovascular outcomes among patients with type 2 diabetes. |
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P Langenegger, Wenn Person, Zeit und Stelle passen, In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 89, p. 65, 18 April 2009. (Newspaper Article)
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Burkhard Stiller, The Future Internet: Management News to be Expected?!, In: Dagstuhl Seminar on "Design and Architecture of the Future Internet". 2009. (Conference Presentation)
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Helmut Max Dietl, M Lang, Alexander Rathke, The effect of salary caps in professional team sports on social welfare, B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, Vol. 9 (1), 2009. (Journal Article)
Increasing financial disparity and spiralling wages in European football have triggered a debate about the introduction of salary caps. This paper provides a theoretical model of a team sports leagues and studies the welfare effect of salary caps. It shows that salary caps will increase competitive balance and decrease overall salary payments within the league. The resulting effect on social welfare is counter-intuitive and depends on the preference of fans for aggregate talent and for competitive balance. A salary cap that binds only for large market clubs will increase social welfare if fans prefer aggregate talent despite the fact that the salary cap will result in lower aggregate talent. If fans prefer competitive balance, on the other hand, any binding salary cap will reduce social welfare. |
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Thorsten Hens, Vertrauensproblem, In: Finanz und Wirtschaft, 27, p. 1, 8 April 2009. (Newspaper Article)
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Elaine May Huang, Eli Blevis, Jennifer Mankoff, Lisa Nathan, Bill Tomlinson, Defining the role of HCI in the challenges of sustainability, In: CHI 2009, 2009. (Conference or Workshop Paper)
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Elaine May Huang, Gunnar Harboe, Joe Tullio, Ashley Novak, Noel Massey, Crysta Metcalf, Guy Romano, Social Television comes home: A field study of communication choices and practices in TV-based text and voice chat, In: ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), USA, 2009. (Conference or Workshop Paper published in Proceedings)
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Bruno Staffelbach, Höherer Lohn kein Grund für Jobwechsel, In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 79, p. 73, 4 April 2009. (Newspaper Article)
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Mariassunta Giannetti, Steven Ongena, Financial Integration and Firm Performance: Evidence from Foreign Bank Entry in Emerging Markets, Review of Finance, Vol. 13 (2), 2009. (Journal Article)
While the positive growth effects of financial integration are extensively documented, little is known of its impact on small and young firms. This paper aims to fill this void relying on a panel of 60,000 firm-year observations on listed and unlisted companies in Eastern European economies to assess the differential impact of foreign bank lending on firm growth and financing. Foreign lending stimulates growth in firm sales, assets, and use of financial debt even though the effect is dampened for small firms. More strikingly, young firms benefit most from foreign bank presence, while businesses connected to domestic banks or to the government suffer. Overall, our findings suggest that foreign banks can help to mitigate connected-lending problems and to improve capital allocation. |
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André C. Wohlgemuth, R Gfrörer, Stimmt es, dass Unternehmensberater alles wissen und nichts können?, Unijournal, Vol. 39 (2), 2009. (Journal Article)
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Steven Ongena, H Degryse, L Laeven, The Impact of Organizational Structure and Lending Technology on Banking Competition, Review of Finance, Vol. 13 (2), 2009. (Journal Article)
We investigate how bank organization shapes banking competition. We show that a bank's geographical lending reach and loan pricing strategy is determined by its own and its rivals’ organizational structure. We estimate the impact of organization on the geographical reach and loan pricing of a large bank. We find that the reach of the bank is smaller when rival banks are large and hierarchically organized, have superior communication technology, have a narrower span of organization, and are closer to a decision unit with lending authority. Rival banks’ size and the number of layers to a decision unit soften spatial pricing. |
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Thomas Walliser, Risikomanagement bei Schweizer Unternehmen, University of Zurich, Faculty of Economics, Business Administration and Information Technology, 2009. (Bachelor's Thesis)
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Anja Schulze, Gundula Heyn, Teaming up to innovate: The importance of a joint knowledge base, Marketing Review St. Gallen, Vol. 26 (2), 2009. (Journal Article)
Companies are increasingly discovering the potential of collaborating with others to create innovative products - often across industries - by combining their specializations in a unique way. A pre-condition for the success of these ventures is to build a common knowledge base, usually by duplicating selected parts of the partner’s knowledge. In this article, a case study and a quantitative study seek to elaborate on the unanswered question: Which building blocks constitute a common knowledge base? |
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Redaktion, Thorsten Hens, Ende des Homo Oeconomicus?, In: Institutional Money, 1 April 2009. (Media Coverage)
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Ramazan Gençay, Nikola Gradojevic, Dragan Kukolj, Option Pricing With Modular Neural Networks, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, Vol. 20 (4), 2009. (Journal Article)
This paper investigates a nonparametric modular neural network (MNN) model to price the S&P-500 European call options. The modules are based on time to maturity and moneyness of the options. The option price function of interest is homogeneous of degree one with respect to the underlying index price and the strike price. When compared to an array of parametric and nonparametric models, the MNN method consistently exerts superior out-of-sample pricing performance. We conclude that modularity improves the generalization properties of standard feedforward neural network option pricing models (with and without the homogeneity hint). |
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Philipp Nussbaumer, I Slembek, C Lueg, R Mogicato, Gerhard Schwabe, Understanding information seeking behaviour in financial advisory, In: ISI 2009, 2009-04-01. (Conference or Workshop Paper published in Proceedings)
In light of the financial crisis, it has become even more critical for financial service providers to remain competitive. This paper discusses new perspectives on the problems of today’s advisory services, including the customer's dissatisfaction with personalization and individualization. Thereby we draw on research in human information behavior, particularly Wilson's model, which provides a promising framework to better understand the information behavior of clients and in turn helps us understand some of the IT-enablers of individualized financial services. Our findings are supported by data collected from mystery shopping episodes and focus group discussions. |
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D J Kurz, Abraham Bernstein, K Hunt, D Radovanovic, P Erne, Z Siudak, O Bertel, Simple point of care risk stratification in acute coronary syndromes: the AMIS model, Heart, Vol. 95 (8), 2009. (Journal Article)
Background: Early risk stratification is important in the management of patients with acute coronary syndromes (ACS).
Objective: To develop a rapidly available risk stratification tool for use in all ACS.
Design and methods: Application of modern data mining and machine learning algorithms to a derivation cohort of 7520 ACS patients included in the AMIS (Acute Myocardial Infarction in Switzerland)-Plus registry between 2001 and 2005; prospective model testing in two validation cohorts.
Results: The most accurate prediction of in-hospital mortality was achieved with the “Averaged One-Dependence Estimators” (AODE) algorithm, with input of 7 variables
available at first patient contact: Age, Killip class, systolic blood pressure, heart rate, pre-hospital cardio-pulmonary resuscitation, history of heart failure, history of cerebrovascular disease. The c-statistic for the derivation cohort (0.875) was essentially maintained in
important subgroups, and calibration over five risk categories, ranging from <1% to >30% predicted mortality, was accurate. Results were validated prospectively against an independent AMIS-Plus cohort (n=2854, c-statistic 0.868) and the Krakow-Region ACS Registry (n=2635, c-statistic 0.842). The AMIS model significantly outperformed established “point-of-care” risk prediction tools in both validation cohorts. In comparison to a logistic
regression-based model, the AODE-based model proved to be more robust when tested on the Krakow validation cohort (c-statistic 0.842 vs. 0.746). Accuracy of the AMIS model
prediction was maintained at 12-months follow-up in an independent cohort (n=1972, c-statistic 0.877).
Conclusions: The AMIS model is a reproducibly accurate point-of-care risk stratification tool for the complete range of ACS, based on variables available at first patient contact. |
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