This paper extends the literature on the information content of financial variables with respect to future economic growth. It shows that variables originating from both the equity market and the bond market in Switzerland are useful indicators for forecasting the Swiss business cycle. In...

Value Surveys may reveal well-behaved societies by the statistical treatment of the agents` declarations of compliance with social values. Similarly, the results of experiments conducted on games with conflict of interest trace back to two important primitives of social capital trust and...

In this paper, we discuss the derivation and application of a bivariate ordered probit modelwith mixed effects. Our approach allows one to estimate the distribution of the effect (gamma) of anendogenous ordered variable on an ordered explanatory variable. By allowing gamma to vary over...

leaders and employees in an large international oil company. The purpose is to provide robust empiricalinsights on the individual and organisational determinants of perceived performance appraisalDesign/methodology/approach – Based on a powerful set of survey data (n 12,000), we specify...

Work-related health problems represent a latent threat to job motivation and organisational performance,with high potential costs both for private and public enterprises. Based on powerful survey data from aninternational oil company in Norway, we explore how work-related health problems are...

The following research is guided by the hypothesis that products chosen on a shopping trip in a supermarket can indicate the preference interdependenciesbetween different products or brands. The bundle chosen on the trip can be regarded as the result of a global utility function. More...

Der Marktanteil stellt eine wichtige Größe für die Stärke von Marken im Konsumgüterbereich dar. Der Erfolg eines Produktmanagers wird unter anderem daran gemessen.Marktanteilsmodelle haben in der Marktforschung eine lange Tradition. Diese Arbeit zieht das Multinomiale Logit Modell zur...

This paper examines households’ preferences for community recycling programs,which have both public and private good dimensions. The data come from a surveyconducted in Seattle, WA that elicited stated preferences for different recyclingsystems (or program changes) relative to status quo with...

The purpose of this paper is to sort out firm-related differences from effects that result from different economic structures. A non-parametric decomposition is used to analyse firm level difference between the wage spread in the two major regions of unified Germany. If firm-specific effects...

The paper develops a non-parametric, non-stationary framework for business-cycle dating based on an innovative statistical methodology known as Adaptive Weights Smoothing (AWS). The methodology is used both for the study of the individual macroeconomic time series relevant to the dating of the...