This article examines the influence of the political parties and provinces (Kantone) in the Swiss parliament, based on the Shapley-Shubik index. The article shows that the power index is a useful tool for analysis of elections. Moreover, the article reveals that the paradox of redistribution and...

Objectives: Preferences of both Alzheimer patients and their spouse caregivers are related to a willingness-to-pay (WTP) measure which is used to test for the presence of mutual (rather than the conventional one-way) altruism. Methods: Identical contingent valuation interviews were conducted in...

In den vergangenen Jahren haben Investmentfonds einen immensen Aufschwung erlebt. Ein im Zusammenhang mit dem Vertrieb von Fondsanteilen immer wieder vorgebrachtes Argument ist die professionelle, unabhängige und ausschließlich dem Anlegerinteresse verpflichtete Anlagepolitik sowie die...