This paper provides field experimental evidence on the prevalence and determinants of discrimination and in-group favoritism in trust decisions. We observe choices of about 1,000 inhabitants of the city of Zurich who take part in a sequential trust game, in which first movers can condition their...

How do ETH alumni fare in the world of work? How satisfied are they with their job and how much do they earn? Do they think that they perform interesting tasks? How many are in a leadership position? And are there differences between female and male graduates? This report answers these and...

Jakob Wolfensberger arbeitete sich aus einer Weberfamilie im Zürcheroberländer Dorf Bauma zum grössten Arbeitgeber des Ortes hoch. Mehr als fünfzig Jahre nach seinem Tod liegt eine umfassende Darstellung seines Wirkens vor: Bekannt als Firmengründer, Eisengiesser und Burgenforscher, war er...

This paper describes a Wardropian traffic flow model integrated with a search model for paid parking. The occupancy rate influences the probability of finding on-street (curbside) or off-street (garage) parking spaces. We formulate the model as a mixed complementarity problem, which has the...

Spillovers of prosocial motivation are crucial for the formation of social capital. They facilitate interactions among individuals and create social multipliers that amplify the effects of policy interventions. We conducted a large-scale intervention study among dyads of blood donors to...

Spillovers of prosocial motivation are crucial for the formation of social capital. They facilitate interactions among individuals and create social multipliers that amplify the effects of policy interventions. We conducted a large-scale intervention study among dyads of blood donors to...

Background: Preferences of both Alzheimer patients and their spouse caregivers are related to a willingness-to-pay (WTP) measure which is used to test for the presence of mutual (rather than conventional unilateral) altruism.Methods: Contingent valuation experiments were conducted in 2000-2002,...

In this paper, we measure with a series of standard indicators the degree of residential segregation of the Swiss and foreign population in the urban canton of Geneva and the city of Zurich. We show that there is relatively little segregation, but that the education level (as a proxy for the...

This thesis analyzes the dynamic of fiscal capitalization across space and over time in the Canton of Zurich. While the literature provides a profusion of evidence on capitalization, there is still a controversy on the extent to which local fiscal variables capitalize into house values and on...

Inferring the implicit price of an environmental good hinges on ceteris paribus conditions that are often hard to justify. This paper uses an unexpected change in flight regulations as source of exogenous variation and identifies aircraft noise effects from price adjustments in the market for...

It is common knowledge that mobile individuals are difficult to tax. Governments accommodate these difficulties by granting special tax reductions to mobile individuals as it is expedient to get some tax revenue from these individuals rather than to lose them as tax payers completely. Taxing...

We apply the hedonic model to the rental markets of the Geneva and Zurich urban areas, Switzerland, in order to assess the value of natural land uses and land use diversity. In order to construct variables to quantify land uses and patterns in the neighborhoods of the buildings, we make use of...

It is common knowledge that mobile individuals are difficult to tax. Governments accommodate these difficulties by granting special tax reductions to mobile individuals as it is expedient to get some tax revenue from these individuals rather than to lose them as tax payers completely. Taxing...

Wie hat sich die die Zürcher Lohnlandschaft zwischen 2006 und 2008 verändert? Nimmt das Lohngefälle zu? Wie verlief die Lohnentwicklung in den Jahren der Hochkonjunktur? Untersucht werden die Lohnstrukturen nach Alter, Qualifikation, beruflicher Stellung und Geschlecht....