Carmen Tanner, Klaus Jonas, Mechanismen des psychologischen Kaufzwangs, In: Konsumentenverhalten, Stämpfli, Bern, p. 105 - 128, 2009. (Book Chapter)
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 Carmen Tanner, Daniel Hausmann-Thürig, Protected values, In: Encyclopedia of Medical Decision Making, SAGE Publications, Inc, Thousand Oaks, CA, p. 74 - 77, 2009. (Book Chapter)
Decision making is a critical element in the field of medicine that can lead to life-or-death outcomes, yet it is an element fraught with complex and conflicting variables, diagnostic and therapeutic uncertainties, patient preferences and values, and costs. Together, decisions made by physicians, patients, insurers, and policymakers determine the quality of health care, quality that depends inherently on counterbalancing risks and benefits and competing objectives such as maximizing life expectancy versus optimizing quality of life or quality of care versus economic realities.
Broadly speaking, concepts in medical decision making (MDM) may be divided into two major categories: prescriptive and descriptive. Work in the area of prescriptive MDM investigates how medical decisions should be done using complicated analyses and algorithms to determine cost-effectiveness measures, prediction methods, and so on. In contrast, descriptive MDM studies how decisions actually are made involving human judgment, biases, social influences, patient factors, and so on. The Encyclopedia of Medical Decision Making gives a gentle introduction to both categories, revealing how medical and healthcare decisions are actually made—and constrained—and how physician, healthcare management, and patient decision making can be improved to optimize health outcomes. |
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Carmen Tanner, Geschützte Werte - Fluch oder Segen?, Wissenswert (3), 2009. (Journal Article)
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Stefan Stracke, Sascha Behnk, Peter Wilke, Jan Evers, Mitarbeiterkapitalbeteiligung - Modelle und Förderwege, 2009. (Other Publication)
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Stefano Battiston, Michael D König, From Graph Theory to Models of Economic Networks. A Tutorial, In: Networks, Topology and Dynamics : Theory and Applications to Economics and Social Systems, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, p. 23 - 63, 2009. (Book Chapter)
Networks play an important role in a wide range of economic phenomena. Despite this fact, standard economic theory rarely considers economic networks explicitly in its analysis. However, a major innovation in economic theory has been the use of methods stemming from graph theory to describe and study relations between economic agents in networks. This recent development has lead to a fast increase in theoretical research on economic networks. In this tutorial, we introduce the reader to some basic concepts used in a wide range of models of economic networks. |
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Daniel Fasnacht, Open Innovation in the Financial Services, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2009. (Book/Research Monograph)
Open innovation means gathering new ideas from sources beyond organizational boundaries. It occurs when solutions to address clients’ needs are developed in collaboration and the resulting products and services are distributed through a flexible network of partners. Daniel Fasnacht’s book, the first of its kind, discusses open business models in the context of the financial services industry. He elaborates the drivers for strategic change such as increasingly sophisticated clients or demanding shareholders among other trends, including the recent global financial crisis, and explains why the transition from a closed model of operation to open innovation is vital. Various case studies illustrate how to integrate the client into the firm's innovation process and emphasize the importance of smart client segmentation and a holistic advisory model to serve clients around the globe. Leaders must develop a set of new management practices to be able to invest in multiple strategic directions. They are responsible for giving clients a remarkable experience and for creating social relationship capital based upon an open innovation culture. Open Innovation in the Financial Services provides a much-needed framework for helping to understand industry dynamics in banking and to make the most of organizational energy by using open innovation to sustain profitable growth. |
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Joseph Najnudel, Ashkan Nikeghbali, Felix Rubin, Scaled limit and rate of convergence for the largest eigenvalue from the generalized Cauchy random matrix ensemble, Journal of Statistical Physics, Vol. 137 (2), 2009. (Journal Article)
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Paul Bourgade, Ashkan Nikeghbali, Alain Rouault, Circular Jacobi ensembles and deformed Verblunsky coefficients, International Mathematics Research Notices (23), 2009. (Journal Article)
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Ashkan Nikeghbali, Marc Yor, The barnes G function and its relations with sums and products of generalized gamma convolution variables, Electronic Communications in Probability, Vol. 14, 2009. (Journal Article)
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Nir Jaimovich, Sergio Rebelo, The Young, the Old, and the Restless: Demographics and Business Cycle Volatility, American Economic Review, 2009. (Journal Article)
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Nir Jaimovich, Sergio Rebelo, Can News about the Future Drive the Business Cycle? , American Economic Review, 2009. (Journal Article)
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Heike Bruch, Christian Schudy, Jochen Menges, Die besten Arbeitgeber im deutschen Mittelstand, In: Top Job 2009, Redline Wirtschaft, Heidelberg, p. 6 - 27, 2009. (Book Chapter)
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Gerald Reiner, Martin Natter, Wenzel Drechsler, Life cycle profit – reducing supply risks by integrated demand management, Technology Analysis and Strategic Management, Vol. 21 (5), 2009. (Journal Article)
Technology advances and competitive pressure have shortened the life cycles for many products (e.g., in the mobile phone industry) and drastically increase the penalty of holding obsolete finished goods inventories. Standard planning methods lead to high forecasting errors and - as a consequence - to high safety inventories. In this context, an appropriate service level is of major interest. We propose a new model for the integrated analysis of alternative pricing strategies and their effects on the service level. In particular, we show how our model supports the identification of the best service level in terms of customer satisfaction life cycle profit. |
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Andreas Mild, Martin Natter, Thomas Reutterer, Alfred Taudes, Jürgen Wöckl, Retail revenue management, European Retail Research, Vol. 23 (2), 2009. (Journal Article)
This work surveys decision support systems that use sales and shopping basket data to suggest regular and promotional price changes in order to improve profit and turnover in retailing (so-called retail revenue management [RRM] systems). Starting with a demonstration of the impact of pricing on profit, we critically assess the pricing methods currently used in retailing and from this basis show the potential for improvement using retail revenue management systems. Furthermore, we classify the different types of pricing problems and describe the methods that are used in retail revenue management. Finally, we discuss the pricing process of retail revenue management systems and report the benefits of such systems typically observed in practice. |
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Ju-Young Kim, Martin Natter, Martin Spann, Pay-what-you-want - a new participative pricing mechanism, Journal of Marketing, Vol. 73 (1), 2009. (Journal Article)
Pay what you want (PWYW) is a new participative pricing mechanism in which consumers have maximum control over the price they pay. Previous research has suggested that participative pricing increases consumers' intent to purchase. However, sellers using PWYW face the risk that consumers will exploit their control and pay nothing at all or a price below the seller's costs. In three field studies, the authors find that prices paid are significantly greater than zero. They analyze factors that influence prices paid and show that PWYW can even lead to an increase in seller revenues. |
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Urs Birchler, Teodoro D Cocca, Daniel Ettlin, The International Private Banking Study 2009, 2009. (Studies and Reports Commissionned)
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Alexandre Ziegler, The Return Properties of Inverse and Levered ETFs , 2009. (Other Publication)
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Brigitte Fünfgeld, Financial Behaviour of Individual Investors in Switzerland: Empirical Evidence, University of Zurich, Faculty of Economics, Business Administration and Information Technology, 2009. (Dissertation)
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Andreas Tupak, Essays in Numerical Evolutionary Finance, University of Zurich, Faculty of Economics, Business Administration and Information Technology, 2009. (Dissertation)
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Marco D'Errico, Rosanna Grassi, Silvana Stefani, Anna Torriero, Shareholding networks and centrality: an application to the Italian financial market, In: Networks, Topology and Dynamics, Springer, Berlin Heidelberg, p. 215 - 228, 2009. (Book Chapter)
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