Michael Hartmann, Design and implementation of a demo application for Oshiya, 2011. (Other Publication)
Modern web services have to schedule a large amount of concurrent requests according to different criteria (e.g. classical serializability or service-level agreements). The state of the art is to develop domain-specific scheduling protocols by hand. This development is elaborate and error-prone. Oshiya is a generic scheduling model which allows to implement scheduling protocols declaratively in a flexible manner. In this Facharbeit a demo application that illustrates the functionality of Oshiya is presented. It provides a debug-like mode which helps developers to test new scheduling protocols graphically. |
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Ulrich Kaiser, Nikolaj Malchow-Møller, Is self-employment really a bad experience?: The effects of previous self-employment on subsequent wage-employment wages, Journal of Business Venturing, Vol. 26 (5), 2011. (Journal Article)
We use propensity score matching methods to quantify the effects of past self-employment experience on subsequent earnings in dependent employment using data on the population of Danish men observed between 1990 and 1996. Our results generally confirm existing studies in that we find that a spell of self-employment is associated with lower hourly wages compared to workers who were consecutively wage-employed. We also show, however, that this effect disappears—and even becomes positive in some settings—for formerly self-employed who find dependent employment in the same sector as their self-employment sector. Hence, the on average negative effect of self-employment is rather caused by sector switching than by the self-employment experience per se. Moreover, formerly self-employed who either enjoyed a high income or hired at least one worker during their self-employment spell receive wages in subsequent dependent employment that are at least as high as for individuals who have been consecutively wage-employed. |
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Josef Zweimüller, Reto Foellmi, Exclusive Goods and Formal-Sector Employment, American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, Vol. 3 (1), 2011. (Journal Article)
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Annette Krauss, Mikrofinanzierung – mehr als ein Steckenpferd für Wirtschaftswissenschaftler, SGG Revue, Vol. 150 (1), 2011. (Journal Article)
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Annette Krauss, Mikrokredite, In: Nachhaltige Anlagen für institutionelle Investoren. Einführung und Überblick mit Fachbeiträgen und Praxisbeispielen, Verlag Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Zürich, p. 133 - 138, 2011. (Book Chapter)
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Andreea Oliviana Diaconescu, Claude Alain, Anthony Randal McIntosh, Modality-dependent "what" and "where" preparatory processes in auditory and visual systems, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, Vol. 23 (7), 2011. (Journal Article)
The present study examined the modality specificity and spatio-temporal dynamics of "what" and "where" preparatory processes in anticipation of auditory and visual targets using ERPs and a cue-target paradigm. Participants were presented with an auditory (Experiment 1) or a visual (Experiment 2) cue that signaled them to attend to the identity or location of an upcoming auditory or visual target. In both experiments, participants responded faster to the location compared to the identity conditions. Multivariate spatio-temporal partial least square (ST-PLS) analysis of the scalp-recorded data revealed supramodal "where" preparatory processes between 300-600 msec and 600-1200 msec at central and posterior parietal electrode sites in anticipation of both auditory and visual targets. Furthermore, preparation for pitch processing was captured at modality-specific temporal regions between 300 and 700 msec, and preparation for shape processing was detected at occipital electrode sites between 700 and 1150 msec. The spatio-temporal patterns noted above were replicated when a visual cue signaled the upcoming response (Experiment 2). Pitch or shape preparation exhibited modality-dependent spatio-temporal patterns, whereas preparation for target localization was associated with larger amplitude deflections at multimodal, centro-parietal sites preceding both auditory and visual targets. Using a novel paradigm, the study supports the notion of a division of labor in the auditory and visual pathways following both auditory and visual cues that signal identity or location response preparation to upcoming auditory or visual targets. |
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Andreea Oliviana Diaconescu, Jimmy Jensen, Hongye Wang, Mahesh Menon, Shitij Kapur, Anthony Randal McIntosh, Aberrant effective connectivity in schizophrenia patients during appetitive conditioning, Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, Vol. 4 (239), 2011. (Journal Article)
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Gabriel Grigore Drimus, Closed-form convexity and cross-convexity adjustments for Heston prices, Quantitative Finance, Vol. 11 (8), 2011. (Journal Article)
We present a new and general technique for obtaining closed-form expansions for prices of options in the Heston model, in terms of Black–Scholes prices and Black–Scholes Greeks up to arbitrary order. We then apply the technique to solve, in detail, the cases for the second-order and third-order expansions. In particular, such expansions show how the convexity in volatility, measured by the Black–Scholes volga, and the sensitivity of delta with respect to volatility, measured by the Black–Scholes vanna, impact option prices in the Heston model. The general method for obtaining the expansion rests on the construction of a set of new probability measures, equivalent to the original pricing measure, and which retain the affine structure of the Heston volatility diffusion. Finally, we extend the method to the pricing of forward-starting options in the Heston model. |
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Stéphane Guérard, Struggles in the diffusion of high-end medical technology in Switzerland and in Canada, Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Gesundheitspolitik, Berne, Switzerland, 2011. (Book/Research Monograph)
This book examines the diffusion process for a complex medical technology, the PET scanner, in two different health care systems, one of which is more market-oriented (Switzerland) and the other more centrally managed by a public agency (the province of Quebec in Canada). More specifically, this research draws on institutional and socio-political theories of the diffusion of innovations to examine how institutional contexts affect processes of diffusion. The study finds that diffusion proceeds more rapidly in Switzerland than in Quebec, but that processes in both jurisdictions are characterized by intense struggles among providers and between providers and public agencies.
This study shows that the institutional environment influences these processes by determining the patterns of material resources and authority available to actors in their struggles to strategically control the technology, and by constituting the discursive resources or institutional logics on which actors may legitimately draw in their struggles to give meaning to the technology in line with their interests and values. This book also illustrates how institutional structures and meanings manifest themselves in the context of specific decisions within an organizational field, and reveals the ways in which governance structures may be contested and realigned when they conflict with interests that are legitimized by dominant institutional logics. It is argued that this form of contestation and readjustment at the margins constitutes one mechanism by which institutional frameworks are tested, stretched and reproduced or redefined. |
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Cinzia Daraio, Andrea Bonaccorsi, Aldo Geuna, Benedetto Lepori, Laurent Bach, Peter Bogetoft, Margarida F Cardoso, Elena Castro-Martinez, Gustavo Crespi, Ignacio Fernandez de Lucio, Harold Fried, Adela Garcia-Aracil, Annamaria Inzelt, Ben Jongbloed, Gerhard Kempkes, Patrick Llerena, Mireille Matt, Maria Olivares, Carsten Pohl, Tarmo Raty, Maria J Rosa, Cláudia S Sarrico, Léopold Simar, Stig Slipersaeter, Pedro N Teixeira, Philippe Vanden Eeckaut, The European university landscape: a micro characterization based on evidence from the Aquameth Project, Research Policy, Vol. 40 (1), 2011. (Journal Article)
This paper provides a new and systematic characterization of 488 universities, from 11 European countries: Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland and UK. Using micro indicators built on the integrated Aquameth database, we characterize the European university landscape according to the following dimensions: history/foundation of university, dynamics of growth, specialization pattern, subject mix, funding composition, offer profile and productivity. |
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Gilles Bénéplanc, Jean-Charles Rochet, Risk management in turbulent times, Oxford University Press, New York, 2011. (Book/Research Monograph)
DescriptionThe subprime crisis has shown that the sophisticated risk management models used by banks and insurance companies had serious flaws. Some people even suggest that these models are completely useless. Others claim that the crisis was just an unpredictable accident that was largely amplified by the lack of expertise and even naivety of many investors. This book takes the middle view. It shows that these models have been designed for "tranquil times", when financial markets behave smoothly and efficiently. However, we are living in more and more "turbulent times": large risks materialize much more often than predicted by "normal" models, financial models periodically go through bubbles and crashes. Moreover, financial risks result from the decisions of economic actors who can have incentives to take excessive risks, especially when their remunerations are ill designed. The book provides a clear account of the fundamental hypotheses underlying the most popular models of risk management and show that these hypotheses are flawed. However it shows that simple models can still be useful, provided they are well understood and used with caution. |
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Silvia Teuber, Paul Ryan, Kathleen Thelen, Karin Wagner, Duale Ausbildung und Personalpolitik - So gleich und doch so fremd?, DBW - Die Betriebswirtschaft (3), 2011. (Journal Article)
Im Rahmen des Artikels wird argumentiert, dass die institutionellen Rahmenbedingungen dazu führen, dass Schweizer Unternehmen - im Vergleich zu deutschen - in geringerem Ausmaß auf ihre eigenen Lehrlinge zurückgreifen, wenn es darum geht, freie Facharbeiterstellen in der Produktion zu decken. |
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Sybille Sachs, Edwin Rühli, Stakeholders Matter : A New Paradigm for Strategy in Society, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2011. (Book/Research Monograph)
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Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Models@run.time at the ACM/IEEE 14th International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems (MODELS 2011), Edited by: Nelly Bencomo, Gordon Blair, Betty Cheng, Robert France, Cédric Jeanneret, CEUR-WS.org, Wellington, New Zealand, 2011. (Proceedings)
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Andreas Butz, Die Bereitstellung öffentlicher Güter durch Unternehmen., University of Zurich, Faculty of Economics, Business Administration and Information Technology, 2011. (Dissertation)
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Andreas Kuhn, In the eye of the beholder: Subjective inequality measures and individuals' assessment of market justice, European Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 27 (4), 2011. (Journal Article)
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Jaag Christian, A General Framework for Regulation and Liberalization in Network Industries, In: In International Handbook of Network Industries – The Liberalization of Infrastructure, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK, p. 26 - 53, 2011. (Book Chapter)
In parallel with liberalization, sector-specific regulation in network industries has become a widely discussed topic among academics, policy makers, industry economists and regulators themselves. The issue of these debates has usually been on whether such regulation is necessary and if so what its optimal design should be. Some argue for complete deregulation (i.e., the complete abolishment of sector-specific regulations), whereas others propose reregulations, that is the replacement of pre-existing (monopoly) regulations by new regulations aiming at safeguarding service levels and competition. The resulting compromise is often somewhere in between; the liberalization process usually entails the partial replacement and realignment of sector-specific regulatory intervention by the disciplining forces of competition protected by competition law. Consequently, competition law and sector-specific regulation play complementary roles. In this paper, we present a general economic framework to assess regulatory remedies in network industries. Therein, liberalization, or more generally market access regulation, can be assessed as well. It provides a foundation and explanation of current sector-specific regulations in place. |
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Stefan Buehler, Daniel Halbheer, Selling when brand image matters, Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics JITE, Vol. 167 (1), 2011. (Journal Article)
This paper studies profit-maximizing seller behavior when brand image affects demand. We consider a seller facing a population of consumers with heterogeneous tastes regarding product quality and brand image. First, we analyze active branding by the seller through costly advertising. Our analysis shows that advertising, price, and profits are all increasing in the average valuation of brand image in the population. Second, we examine the role of passive branding emanating from the population's consumption of the product. We find that seller profits increase in the average degree of conformity in the population, whereas the price remains unaffected. (JEL: D42, L15, L21, M37) |
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P Valdes-Sosa, A Roebroeck, Jean Daunizeau, K J Friston, Effective connectivity: influence, causality and biophysical modelling, Neuroimage, 2011. (Journal Article)
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