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Inflation bald als Folgeeffekt der COVID-19-Pandemie? = Inflation soon a consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic?

Beretta, Edoardo

In: List Forum für Wirtschafts- und Finanzpolitik, 2021, vol. 46, no. 3, p. 359-377

Although COVID-19 pandemic has so far been assumed to have recessivedeflationary consequences due to the dramatic deterioration of economic forecasts worldwide, inflation risks cannot be excluded. What effects might result from the combination of billion-high liquidity injections and high decline in production levels as well as strict (and costly) security and protection requirements? And why...

From research to purchase: an empirical analysis of research-shopping behaviour in the insurance sector

Mau, Stefan ; Cvijikj, Irena Pletikosa ; Wagner, Joël

In: Zeitschrift für die gesamte Versicherungswissenschaft, 2015, vol. 104, no. 5, p. 573-593

Using discrete choice experiments to regulate the provision of water services: do status quo choices reflect preferences?

Lanz, Bruno ; Provins, Allan

In: Journal of Regulatory Economics, 2015, vol. 47, no. 3, p. 300-324

Optimizing insurance pricing by incorporating consumers' perceptions of risk classification

Störmer, Tina

In: Zeitschrift für die gesamte Versicherungswissenschaft, 2015, vol. 104, no. 1, p. 11-37

Does prospective payment increase hospital (in)efficiency? Evidence from the Swiss hospital sector

Widmer, Philippe

In: The European Journal of Health Economics, 2015, vol. 16, no. 4, p. 407-419

Effort provision in entrepreneurial teams: effects of team size, free-riding and peer pressure

Backes-Gellner, Uschi ; Werner, Arndt ; Mohnen, Alwine

In: Journal of Business Economics, 2015, vol. 85, no. 3, p. 205-230

From blue to steel-collar jobs : The decline in employment gaps?

Lerch, Benjamin

The adoption of labor-replacing technologies has already displaced thousands of workers in the US. In this paper, I analyze how the adverse effects of the implementation of robots in firms’ production processes are spreading among the population and how they are shaping the composition of labor markets. Exploiting exogenous variation in robot exposure across local labor markets and over time,...

Fighting the spread of Covid-19 : was the Swiss lockdown worth it?

Gatti, Nicolò ; Retali, Beatrice

The implementation of a lockdown to control the Covid-19 pandemic has led to a strong debate in several countries. This makes it crucial to shed light on the actual benefits of such kind of policy. To this purpose, we focus on the Swiss lockdown during the first wave of Covid-19 infections and estimate the number of potentially saved lives. To predict the number of deaths in absence of any...

How can distributed ledger technology systems accelerate the adoption of eHealth solutions by patients

Rattazi, Camille ; Herniman, John (Dir.)

Mémoire de bachelor : Haute école de gestion de Genève, 2020 ; TDIBM 72.

This report’s goal is to understand how distributed ledger technology systems, especially blockchain, are beneficial in terms of eHealth adoption and patients control of their health data. According to an executive in a multinational company of the health industry, “private data limits the growth of eHealth but also represent a better future. We must be inventive, or we will never get to...

Corporate social responsibility and information and communication technology in the digital age

Schultz, Mario Dominik ; Seele, Peter (Dir.)

Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2020 ; 2020COM003.

Pervasive digital technologies are transforming economies and societies worldwide. This dissertation focuses on Corporate Social Responsibilities (CSR) as the dominant model of business ethics over the last decades, in an attempt to better understand the digital transformation. Digitalization represents a fundamental and challenging transformation and promises to touch on almost all areas of...