The quadratic scoring rule (QSR) is often used to guarantee an incentive compatibleelicitation of subjective probabilities over events. Experimentalists haveregularly not been able to ensure that subjects fully comprehend the consequencesof their actions on payoffs given the rules of the games....

Despite the call for pluralism in IS research there is a lack of multi-method research published ininformation systems journals. While many researchers might find the idea of using multiple methodsattractive, there are barriers that prevent them from employing this approach in practice. In this...

The paper is devoted to solving the problem of assessing the quality of the medicalelectronic service. A variety of dimensions and factors of quality, methods and models applied indifferent scopes of activity for assessing quality of service is researched. The basic aspects,requirements and...

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...

Is it any longer necessary to point out that the service sector accounts for the highest share of economic activity in today’s developed economies, irrespective of the indicators used to demonstrate its importance? This dominant position is reflected not only in its quantitative importance but...

Facing growing complexity and uncertainty of social and environmental contexts, e.g. globalisation, climate change, dynamics of markets of energy and resources, geopolitical security risks and conflicts as well as technological change, it is more important than ever to reflect today’s...

The three qualitative scenarios of Europe’s possible Energy Futures, which arepresented in this document, are based on the findings of the Europe-wide Delphi studyon Energy and Social Visions - EurEnDel. These results have been checked againstmultiple inputs from a considerable number of...

In the last two decades there has been a noticeable increase in published research inevolutionary economics. The idea that formal modelling is a sine qua non condition forestablishing a rigours and coherence scientific frame, has led to an over concern withformalization issues among evolutionary...

The goal of this paper is to provide an overview on the Virtual Laboratory infrastructurefor online economic experiments. We summarize our experience gainedfrom performing several economic experiments on the Internet. The experimentswe have run range from electronic markets to individual...