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Incentive pay and bank risk-taking : evidence from Austrian, German, and Swiss banks

Efing, Matthias; Hau, Harald; Kampkötter, Patrick; … - 2014

We use payroll data on 1.2 million bank employee years in the Austrian, German, and Swiss banking sector to identify incentive pay in the critical banking segments of treasury/capital market management and investment banking for 66 banks. We document an economically significant correlation of...

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Moretti, Luca; Mayerl, Martin; Mühlemann, Samuel; … - 2017

The authors compare a firm's costs and benefits of providing apprenticeship training in Austria and Switzerland, using two original micro data sets. While both countries share a number of similarities, including an extensive vocational education and training (VET) system, and a common border,...

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Taxing our wealth

Scheuer, Florian; Slemrod, Joel - 2020

This paper evaluates proposals for an annual wealth tax. While a dozen OECD countries levied wealth taxes in the recent past, now only three retain them, with only Switzerland raising a comparable fraction of revenue as recent proposals for a US wealth tax. Studies of these taxes sometimes, but...

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Wars and markets : how bond values reflect World War II

Frey, Bruno S.; Kucher, Marcel - 1999

Historical events are reflected in asset prices. In this paper, we analyse government bond prices of Germany and Austria traded on the Swiss bourse during WWII. Some war events that are generally considered crucial are clearly reflected in government bond prices. This holds, in particular, for...

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Evaluation of researchers : a life cycle analysis of German academic economists

Rauber, Michael (contributor); … - 2006

In this paper we ague that any meaningful bibliometric evaluation of researchers needs to take into account that …

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Personality traits and the evaluation of start-up subsidies

Caliendo, Marco; Künn, Steffen; Weißenberger, Martin - 2016

. Evaluation studies of such programmes commonly rely on the conditional independence assumption (CIA), allowing a causal … success, these variables were neglected in evaluation studies so far due to data limitations. In this paper, we evaluate a new … administrative-survey data allows us to incorporate usually unobserved personality measures in the evaluation and investigate their …

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Identifying the effects of place-based policies : causal evidence from German

Dettmann, Eva; Brachert, Matthias; Titze, Mirko - 2016

The German government provides discretionary investment grants to structurally weak regions to reduce regional disparities. We use a regression discontinuity design that exploits an exogenous discrete jump in the probability of receiving investment grants, to identify the causal effects of the...

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Cost and benefit of apprenticeship training : a comparison of Germany and Switzerland

Dionisius, Regina; Mühlemann, Samuel; Pfeifer, Harald; … - 2008

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What do we know about recent exchange rate models? : in-sample fit and out-of-sample performance evaluated

Cheung, Yin-Wong; Chinn, Menzie David; Pascual, Antonio … - 2003

Previous assessments of nominal exchange rate determination have focused upon a narrow set of models typically of the 1970 s vintage, including monetary and portfolio balance models. In this paper we re-assess the in-sample fit and out-of-sample prediction of a wider set of models that have been...

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Being independent is a great thing : subjective evaluations of self-employment and hierarchy

Frey, Bruno S.; Benz, Matthias - 2003

One can be independent, or subject to decisions made by others. This paper empirically tests whether individuals attach an intrinsic value to the institutional difference between independence and hierarchy. Taking self-employment as an important case of independence, it is shown that the...

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