Until today there is a research gap considering the question, what motivates a member to enter or leave a co-op, resp. what are the reasons to stay in a co-operative. The majority of studies about this topic mainly focus on economic factors and the rational behavior of the member. However,...

Spenden sammelnde Organisationen besitzen beträchtliche und in der Praxis eher unterschätzte Freiheitsgrade in der Bestimmung ihres Finanzierungsmix. Der Beitrag erläutert im ersten Schritt sieben verschiedene Kalküle, die bei der Festlegung des angestrebten Mix aus privaten Spenden,...

Trust in the citizens of a potential partner country may affect the decision to trade with or to migrate to a foreign country. This paper employs panel data to examine the causal impact of such bilateral trust on international trade and migration patterns. We apply instrumental variables (IV)...

We investigate the effects of interregional labor market integration in a two-sector, overlapping-generations model with land-intensive production in the non-tradable goods sector (housing). To capture the response to migration on housing supply, capital formation is endogenous, assuming that...

This article examines founding family influence on pay-out policies for Swiss listed firms over the period 2003-2010. We find that founding family firms have higher dividends and total pay-outs than non-family firms. There is no significant difference between stock repurchases for the two types...

The number of expatriates from global firms has been continuously increasing over the past decades as multinational companies still view expatriation as an important tool for sharing and transferring knowledge, controlling subsidiaries and developing workforce competencies. Expatriate management...

Eine gut funktionierende Nachwuchsförderung bildet die Basis für spätere Spitzenleistungen im Sport und wird darum von Verbänden als eine der wichtigsten Aufgaben überhaupt angesehen. Der Erfolg dieser lässt sich aber durch das Verbandsmanagement nur bedingt steuern, wie eine am VMI...

We present a new method to measure the intraday relationship between movements of implied volatility smiles and stock returns. It is based on an enhanced smile regression model which captures patterns in the intraday data which have not yet been reported in the literature. Using transaction data...

Wovon hängt ab, ob es einem Berufsverband gelingt, Mitglieder zu binden und damit einen hohen Organisationsgrad zu erreichen? Eine Befragung von insgesamt 850 gegenwärtigen und ehemaligen Mitgliedern aus den 13 Sektionen eines Verbands mit unterschiedlichem Leistungsangebot in seinen Sektionen...

In the three-factor model of Fama and French (1993), portfolio returns are explained by the factors Small Minus Big (SMB) and High Minus Low (HML) which capture returns related to firm capitalization (size) and the book-to-market ratio (B/M). In the standard approach of the model, both the test...