Was erwartet mich an der Hochschule? Werde ich den Anforderungen gerechtwerden können? Wie ist das in einer Vorlesung? Wie sind die Professoren?Wer studiert außer mir das Fach? Diese und weitere Fragen beschäftigen jedenStudienanfänger. Der Schritt von der Schule oder aus der beruflichen...

Should two-band income taxes be progressive given a general income distribution? Weprovide a negative answer under utilitarian and max-min welfare functions. While this resultclarifies some ambiguities in the literature, it does not rule out progressive taxes in general. Ifwe maximize total or...

Many economists and psychologists refuse the idea that behaviour could be based on any other motives than selfish and hedonistic ones, at least in the context of economy, mainly based on a methodological premise, not so often on empirical research. The corresponding image of man that is inherent...

In pure population problems, a single resource is to be distributed equally among theagents in a society, and the social planner chooses population size(s) and per-capita consumption(s) for each resource constraint and set of feasible population sizes within thedomain of the solution...

Die Mitarbeiter/innen der sfs haben in ihren Projekten vielfältiges, praxiserprobtes, sozialwissenschaftliches Methodenknow-how zusammengetragen. Ständig werden neue Methoden, Instrumente und Vorgehensweisen entwickelt, erprobt und reflektiert....

Research in the field of information warehousing mostly focuses technical aspects. Onlyrecently some contributions are found dealing with methodical aspects of informationwarehouse development processes. With respect to the central role information warehousesplay for the management a development...

Mit finanzieller Unterstützung der Stiftung Ecoscientia und des NCCR FIN-RISK (National Centre of Competence in Research “Financial Valuation and RiskManagement”) hat das Institut für schweizerisches Bankwesen der UniversitätZürich eine Neuauflage der je in den Jahren 2000, 2002 und 2004...

With the financial support of the Ecoscientia Foundation and the NCCR FIN-RISK (National Centre of Competence in Research “Financial Valuation and RiskManagement”), the Swiss Banking Institute of the University of Zurich conductedthe survey “Equity Ownership in Switzerland 2006”. This survey...