There have been many books, essays and decisions by courts about the Essential-Facilities-Doctrine, especially since the famous decision of US Supreme Court on United States v. Terminal Railroad Ass's in 1912. In this paper I give an overview about the Essential-Facilities-Doctrine in the US, EC...

In jüngster Zeit wird in der Personalmanagementforschung vermehrt darauf hingewiesen, dass Forschungsfragen zum Themengebiet Performance Management in Bezug auf öffentliche und Nonprofit Organisationen bislang noch wenig erforscht sind (Brandl et al. 2006). In der Folge entwickelte sich ein...

This paper develops a regional production function model for Swiss cantons that incorporates human capital together with spatial effects. Within a spatial panel framework we find that controlling for time effects the spatial spillover effect becomes insignificant. Our results are sensitive with...

This paper analyzes the impact of formal training on worker mobility. Using data from the Swiss Labor Force Survey, we find that on-the-job search activities and, to a smaller extent, actual job separations are significantly affected by both employer-provided and general training. Moreover,...

Considerable evidence suggests that enforcement efforts cannot fully explain the high degree of tax compliance. To resolve this puzzle of tax compliance several researchers have argued that citizens’ attitudes toward paying taxes defined as tax morale helps to explain the high degree of tax...