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Vocational Education and Productivity in the Swiss Business Sector
(2010)KOF StudiesIn this study we investigate the effects of three categories of employees with different levels of formal education (upper secondary level (“Berufslehre); tertiary level other than academic university (“Fachhochschulen”, etc.); and academic university level) on average labour productivity in an “augmented production function” framework (a) at firm level for the period 1994-2005 and (b) at industry level for the period 1991-2005. Throughout ...Report -
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Parking pricing vs. congestion pricing
(2020)SVT Working PapersAs traffic congestion gets worse year by year in metropolitan areas, cities search for solutions to improve their traffic performance and reduce their environmental impacts. This paper focuses on parking pricing and congestion pricing and their short-term effects not only on traffic congestion but also on the potential revenue for a city. We develop an easy to implement multimodal macroscopic traffic and parking search model for a central ...Working Paper -
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Schutz und Förderung von Erkennungszeichen Agrarprodukte
(1996)Schriftenreihe / ETH Zürich, Institut für AgrarwirtschaftWorking Paper -
Sequential aggregation of verifiable information
(2010)Economics Working Paper SeriesWe introduce the notion of verifiable information into a model of sequential debate among experts who are motivated by career concerns. We show that self-censorship may hamper the efficiency of information aggregation, as experts withhold evidence contradicting the conventional wisdom. In this case, silence is telling and undermines the prevailing view over time if this view is incorrect. As a result, withholding arguments about the correct ...Working Paper -
Ökonomie und Psychologie
(2001)Working paper / Institute for Empirical Research in EconomicsWorking Paper -
The impact of local work and residential balance on vehicle miles traveled
(2017)Arbeitsberichte Verkehrs- und RaumplanungThis paper introduces a new approach for explaining the effects of spatial competition for opportunities based on a cumulative opportunities measure of accessibility. We focus on the case of the labor market where some municipalities offer too few workplaces for their local population, forcing some of their residents to long drives. We apply this new accessibility measure to explain households’ annual mileage in Switzerland using a Heckman ...Working Paper -
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