This paper reviews the epistemological and methodological underpinnings of economic approaches to language issues, and proposes a definition of the economics of language as a field of research in its own right. It also introduces the contributions gathered in a special issue of the...

Today, literature on the Silicon Valley is abundant, most of it underlines the importance of the role played by Stanford University; however, few analyse this subject from the perspective of the university. Thus, this paper focuses on the School of Engineering at Stanford University, in...

In this paper, we present a version of the multivariate risk premium for additive risks and the necessary and sufficient conditions to compare global attitudes towards multivariate risk. The link between this risk premium and well-known partial multivariate risk premiums is then investigated.

This paper examines the occurrence of upward distorsions on working-hours caused by the existence of multiplicative effects in the production process. Multiplicative effects are mainly associated with managerial positions but, more generally, with jobs involving multiple tasks or affecting the...

Earnings reported by North American firms are conditioned by specific contextual factors that enhance their contractual and value relevances: regulatory oversight by securities commissions, relatively strict accounting and auditing standards, an extensive financial analysis industry and active...

In this paper constant quality price indices are constructed for three categories of real estate in Geneva: Apartment building, vacant land and condominiums. We use both hedonic and repeat sales models to estimate the rate of price change on these three submarkets.