Die Bedeutung der sozialen Medien nimmt rasant zu. Damit steigt auch ihre Relevanz als ein möglicher Kommunikationskanal für die Ökonomen. Am Beispiel des Microbloggingdiensts Twitter wird analysiert, wie deutsche Top-Ökonomen einerseits die sozialen Medien nutzen, um die Gesellschaft über...

Die Bedeutung der sozialen Medien nimmt rasant zu. Damit steigt auch ihre Relevanz als ein möglicher Kommunikationskanal für die Ökonomen. Am Beispiel des Microbloggingdiensts Twitter wird analysiert, wie deutsche Top-Ökonomen einerseits die sozialen Medien nutzen, um die Gesellschaft über...

Die Digitalisierung der Außenwerbung und damit einhergehende inkrementelle Veränderungen dieses Werbemediums - wie programmatische Aussteuerung, Individualisierungen der Botschaften oder etwaige Interaktionen - beeinflussen zunehmend die Marktakteure. Doch gerade für solche neuartigen...

"This book focuses on the creation of Sliding Mode Technique & Technology (SM T&T) based on some fundamental advantages of Sliding Mode in the Internet for increasing efficiency of managing and controlling processes in non-engineering systems. It explores topics such as discontinuous control &...

This study examines foreign exchange intervention based on novel daily data covering 33 countries from 1995 to 2011. We find that intervention is widely used and an effective policy tool, with a success rate in excess of 80 percent under some criteria. The policy works well in terms of smoothing...

Monetary policy communication is particularly important during unconventional times, because high uncertainty about the economy, the introduction of new policy tools and possible limits to the central bank's toolkit could hamper the predictability of policy actions. We study how monetary...

We propose a Hawkish-Dovish (HD) indicator that measures the degree of 'hawkishness' or 'dovishness' of the media's perception of the ECB's tone at each press conference. We compare two methods to calculate the indicator: semantic orientation and Support Vector Machines text classification. We...

When an agent’s motivation is sensitive to how his supervisor thinks about the agent’s competence, the supervisor has to take into account both informational and expressive contents of her message to the agent. This paper shows that the supervisor can credibly express her trust in the...

Anticipated verbal feedback in a dictator game has been shown to induce altruistic behavior. However, in the ultimatum game which, apart from generosity, entails a strategic component since a proposer may (rightly) fear that the responder will reject a low offer, it remains an open question...

In September 2016, the European Commission (EC) published its proposal for a directive establishing the European Electronic Communications Code (EECC) - with one key aim being the provision of sufficient incentives for infrastructure investments into high-speed communication networks. Based on a...

In den vergangenen Jahren kam es in Deutschland wiederholt zu tragischen Fällen von Kindesmisshandlung oder Kindstötung, über die bundesweit in den Medien berichtet wurde. Oft wurde dabei auch die Rolle der zuständigen Jugendämter thematisiert, denen nicht selten‚ Behördenversagen‘...

In crowdfunding, start-ups can voluntarily communicate with their investors by posting updates. We investigate whether start-ups strategically use updates, which were previously shown to increase investments. To this end, we use hand-collected data of 751 updates and 39,036 investment decisions...

This paper summarizes the results of a Survey on Monetary policy Communication conducted among central banks in Central Eastern and South-Eastern Europe and the euro area. The main objective of this Survey was to draw evidence on the level of transparency and communication strategies of the...

Technology plays an essential and important role in industrial and developing countries. Technology has affected almost all walk of human life such as education and social life. It has drastically changed the cultural norms and behavior of individuals. This study aims to find out the relation...

This paper studies how firms' offshoring decisions shape a country's domestic production networks. We develop a model in which heterogeneous firms source inputs from multiple industries located in different domestic regions and foreign countries. Input sourcing entails communication with...

Interoperability has become a buzzword in European policy debates on the future of the digital economy. In its Digital Agenda, the EU Commission has identified a lack of interoperability as one of the significant obstacles for the thriving of the digital economy. The EU Commission and a number...

Firm surveys have shown that labour management in developing countries is often problematic. Earlier experimental research (Davies & Fafchamps, 2017) has shown that managers in Ghana are reluctant to use monetary incentives to motivate workers. This paper presents the results from a...

We analyze delegation of a set of decisions over time by an informed principal to a potentially biased agent. Each period the principal observes a state of the world and sends a “cheap-talk” message to the agent, who is privately informed about her bias. We focus on principal-optimal...

We analyze a game in which players with unique information are arranged in a hierarchy. In the lowest layer each player can decide in each of several rounds either to pass the information to his successor or to hold. While passing generates an immediate payoff according to the value of...

This paper is based on a field study carried out in 2015 in two coastal ecotourism areas in The Gambia - Kartong and Tanji. The study investigated sustainability communication by tourism service providers in the context of climate change and ecovillage design education (EDE). With an inclusive...

We examine multistage information transmission with voluntary monetary transfer in the framework of Crawford and Sobel (1982). In our model, an informed expert can send messages to an uninformed decision maker more than once, and the uninformed decision maker can pay money to the informed expert...

Calculative vs relational rationality in intercultural business negotiations -- Deal and/or relationship -- A cultural perspective on deal-making versus relationship-building -- Quandaries in negotiation : dilemmas, conflicts, and disputes in ICBN -- Cultural time orientations in negotiation --...

Introduction: the role of communication in managing people -- The neuroscience of emotional intelligence -- Leadership messages -- Higher education case study -- Splitting support -- Tech company case -- News media case -- Advertising agency case -- Mary Beckerle case: a happy case, depending on...

Building communication foundations -- Getting started in communication -- Using perception to understand self and others -- Listening -- Verbal communication -- Nonverbal communication -- Interpersonal and small group communication -- Building interpersonal relationships -- Managing...

Adopting a perspective -- Perception and paradigms -- Understanding organizations : an overview of management and organizational perspectives -- Verbal communication -- Nonverbal communication -- Networks and channels -- Symbolic behavior -- Listening -- Effective interpersonal communication in...