Université de Fribourg

Intergenerational Attitudes Towards Strategic Uncertainty and Competition : a Field Experiment in a Swiss Bank

Madiès, Thierry ; Villeval, Marie Claire ; Wasmer, Malgorzata

In: European Economic Review, 2013, vol. 61, p. 153-168

With a market entry game inspired by Camerer and Lovallo (1999), we study the attitudes of junior and senior employees towards strategic uncertainty and competition. Seniors exhibit higher entry rates compared to juniors, especially when the market capacity is not too low or when earnings from entry depend on relative performance. This difference persists after controlling for attitudes...

Consortium of Swiss Academic Libraries

Computational aspects of minimizing conditional value-at-risk

Künzi-Bay, Alexandra ; Mayer, János

In: Computational Management Science, 2006, vol. 3, no. 1, p. 3-27

Haute Ecole de Gestion & Tourisme

Plateforme web pour les finances communales

Mathier, Sandro ; Rey, Jean-Pierre (Dir.)

Mémoire de bachelor : Haute Ecole de Gestion & Tourisme, 2017.

L’objectif principal de ce travail de Bachelor était de créer un prototype de plateforme web donnant la possibilité d’afficher différentes visualisations des comptes de la ville. Celles-ci leur permettraient de prendre des décisions, si nécessaire. Avant la réalisation, il fallait d’abord comprendre la thématique, analyser les données et choisir les outils et les langages de...

Università della Svizzera italiana

New empirical evidence on local financial development and growth

Vaona, Andrea ; Patuelli, Roberto

In this paper, we show that the regional finance-growth nexus in Italy is robust to a series of innovations with respect to the existing literature on the topic. We use finer measures of economic and financial development, as well as instruments with a deeper economic content. We rely on state-of-the-art cross-sectional and panel estimation methods, and we offer a thorough investigation of the...