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Asymptotics for fixed transaction costs

Altarovici, Albert ; Muhle-Karbe, Johannes ; Soner, Halil

In: Finance and Stochastics, 2015, vol. 19, no. 2, p. 363-414

Consortium of Swiss Academic Libraries

Mapping the field of family business research: past trends and future directions

Xi, Jing ; Kraus, Sascha ; Filser, Matthias ; Kellermanns, Franz

In: International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal, 2015, vol. 11, no. 1, p. 113-132

Université de Fribourg

Evaluating the effects of faculty development: theoretical framework and empirical implementation

Charlier, Bernadette ; Lambert, Marie

In: International Journal for Academic Development, 2019, vol. 25, no. 2, p. 162-175

This article implements a systemic evaluation framework to evaluate the long- term effects of a specific program characterized by a SoTL approach and a hybrid learning environment. The importance of the difference between the perception of long-term effects on individual professional development and the development of collective practices is interpreted by certain shortcomings of the FD...

Université de Fribourg

Patenting government funded innovations as a strategy to increase budget for academic vaccine R&D

Songane, Mario

(Working Papers SES ; 509)

Vaccine development is a lengthy, expensive and risky venture, with the research and development (R&D) process costing billions of dollars. The pre-clinical stage of vaccine R&D is largely performed by academic research institutions, then continued by the pharmaceutical industry though licensing agreements, taking the most promising candidates to the clinical testing stage. Governments play a...

Université de Fribourg

If I can do it, so can you! : Peer effects on perseverance

Buechel, Berno ; Mechtenberg, Lydia ; Petersen, Julia

In: Journal of economic behavior and organization, 2018, vol. 155, p. 301-314

Successful performance – be it in school, at the job, or in sports activities – requires perseverance, i.e., persistent work on a demanding task. We investigate in a controlled laboratory experiment how an individual's social environment affects perseverance. We find evidence for two kinds of peer effects: being observed by a peer can postpone the decision to give up, while observing a...

Consortium of Swiss Academic Libraries

Multi-stock portfolio optimization under prospect theory

Pirvu, Traian ; Schulze, Klaas

In: Mathematics and Financial Economics, 2012, vol. 6, no. 4, p. 337-362