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Essays in empirical finance

Garzoli, Matteo ; Plazzi, Alberto (Dir.)

Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2021 ; 2021ECO007.

I use empirical methods to forecast U.S. repeat-sales house price indices, to analyze Swiss long-run default rates and to investigate the role of country and industry effects on the downside risk of stock index returns.

The impact of work design, autonomy support, and strategy on employee outcomes: A differentiated perspective on self-determination at work

Güntert, Stefan

In: Motivation and Emotion, 2015, vol. 39, no. 1, p. 74-87

Which Method of Fall Ascertainment Captures the Most Falls in Prefrail and Frail Seniors?

Teister, Corina J. ; Chocano-Bedoya, Patricia O. ; Orav, Endel J. ; Dawson-Hughes, Bess ; Meyer, Ursina ; Meyer, Otto W. ; Freystaetter, Gregor ; Gagesch, Michael ; Rizzoli, Rene ; Egli, Andreas ; Theiler, Robert ; Kanis, John A. ; Bischoff-Ferrari, Heike A.

In: American Journal of Epidemiology, 2018, vol. 187, no. 10, p. 2243-2251

Spatiotemporal gait parameters during dual task walking in need of care elderly and young adults : A cross-sectional study = Raum-Zeit-Gangparameter während Doppelaufgaben bei pflegebedürftigen älteren und jungen Menschen : Eine Querschnittstudie

Agner, S. ; Bernet, J. ; Brülhart, Y. ; Radlinger, L. ; Rogan, S.

In: Zeitschrift für Gerontologie und Geriatrie, 2015, vol. 48, no. 8, p. 740-746

Blood pressure control and complex health conditions in older adults: impact of recent hypertension management guidelines

Anker, Daniela ; Santos-Eggimann, Brigitte ; Zwahlen, Marcel ; Santschi, Valérie ; Rodondi, Nicolas ; Wolfson, Christina ; Chiolero, Arnaud

In: Journal of Human Hypertension, 2020, p. -

The American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association (ACC/AHA) 2017 guidelines for hypertension management lowered blood pressure (BP) thresholds to 130/80 mmHg to define hypertension while the European Society of Cardiology and the European Society of Hypertension (ESC/ESH) 2018 guidelines retained 140/90 mmHg. Both guidelines recommend adapting management for older ...

Institutional setting and networks effect on international trade : Three essays on international trade

Arioldi, Davide ; Maggi, Rico (Dir.)

Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2018 ; 2018ECO016.

This thesis explores the role of different measures of proximity on some topics related to international trade. We focus on how institutional setting (institutional proximity) and network structure (cognitive and social proximity) influence the geography of international trade. In the first chapter, we extend the results of Rose and Spiegel (2011) and the findings by Bista (2017) proposing a...

Three essays in labor economics

Gentili, Elena ; Mazzonna, Fabrizio (Dir.)

Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2019 ; 2019ECO003.

In this thesis, I investigate two of the main challenges faced by developed societies: aging and migration. In the first chapter, I consider the cultural determinants of elderly care arrangement decisions. The empirical strategy focuses on the three German and French speaking Swiss bilingual cantons. Particularly, since the structure of long-term care provision is planned at cantonal level, I...

Antecedents of Job Satisfaction, Organizational Commitment and Stress in a Public Hospital: a P-E Fit Perspective

Giauque, David ; Resenterra, Fabien ; Siggen, Michaël

In: Public Organization Review, 2014, vol. 14, no. 2, p. 201-228

User, Use & Utility Research : The Digital User as New Design Perspective in Business andInformation Systems Engineering

Brenner, Walter ; Karagiannis, Dimitris ; Kolbe, Lutz ; Krüger, Jens ; Leifer, Larry ; Lamberti, Hermann-Josef ; Leimeister, Jan ; Österle, Hubert ; Petrie, Charles ; Plattner, Hasso ; Schwabe, Gerhard ; Uebernickel, Falk ; Winter, Robert ; Zarnekow, Rüdiger

In: Business & Information Systems Engineering, 2014, vol. 6, no. 1, p. 55-61

Immediate effects after stochastic resonance whole-body vibration on physical performance on frail elderly for skilling-up training: a blind cross-over randomised pilot study

Rogan, Slavko ; Schmidtbleicher, Dietmar ; Radlinger, Lorenz

In: Aging Clinical and Experimental Research, 2014, vol. 26, no. 5, p. 519-527