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Bestimmungsfaktoren der Gewinnmargen von Unternehmungen: Eine Analyse auf der Basis von Schweizer Branchendaten
(2003)KOF Working PapersIm Rahmen dieser Untersuchung analysierten wir den Einfluss wesentlicher Marktstrukturmerkmale und der Marktmobilität auf die Gewinnmargen von Firmen. Die Marktstruktur umschreibt wesentliche Eigenschaften eines Marktes, wie z.B. das Konzentrationsniveau. In der Marktmobilität zeigt sich das Ausmass an Marktzutritten und Marktaustritten, die von bestimmten Faktoren (Marktbarrieren), wie z.B. Grössenvorteilen bei der Produktion, Grössenvorteilen ...Working Paper -
RGAP: Output Gap Estimation in R
(2022)KOF Working PapersAssessing potential output and the output gap is essential for policy-making and fiscal surveillance. The European Commission proposes a production function methodology that involves the estimation of two classes of Gaussian state space models. This paper presents the R package RGAP which features a flexible modeling framework for the appropriate bivariate unobserved component models and offers frequentist as well as Bayesian estimation ...Working Paper -
Macroscopic modeling of on-street and garage parking
(2018)SVT Working PapersThe short-term interactions between on-street and garage parking policies and the associated parking pricing can be We formulate an on-street and garage parking-state-based matrix that describes the system dynamics of urban traffic All parking searchers face the decision to drive to a parking garage or to search for an on-street parking space in the highly influential to the searching-for-parking traffic and the overall traffic performance ...Working Paper -
"Die Eisenbahn der Zukunft". Modernisierung, Automatisierung und Schnellverkehr bei den SBB im Kontext von Krisen und Wandel (1965-2000).
(2006)Preprints zur Kulturgeschichte der TechnikWorking Paper -
Intra-Firm Diffusion of Green Energy Technologies and the Choice of Policy Instruments
(2015)KOF Working PapersEnvironmental benefits only unfold if green (environmentally friendly) technologies are widely diffused and intensively deployed within a firm. We investigate how different types of policies - directly and in combination - affect the number of different green energy technologies adopted by a single firm (intra-firm diffusion). Using data from a dedicated survey on the diffusion of green energy technologies of 1200 Swiss firms and applying ...Working Paper -
Do Autocratic States Trade Less?
(2007)KOF Working PapersThe paper analyzes whether the political regime of a country influences its involvement in international trade. Firstly, we develop a theoretical model that predicts that autocracies trade less than democracies. Secondly, we test the predictions of the model empirically using a panel of more than 130 countries for the years 1962 to 2000. In contrast to the existing literature, we use data on individual importing and exporting countries, ...Working Paper -
Contrastive learning of global and local features for medical image segmentation with limited annotations
(2020)arXivA key requirement for the success of supervised deep learning is a large labeled dataset - a condition that is difficult to meet in medical image analysis. Self-supervised learning (SSL) can help in this regard by providing a strategy to pre-train a neural network with unlabeled data, followed by fine-tuning for a downstream task with limited annotations. Contrastive learning, a particular variant of SSL, is a powerful technique for ...Working Paper -
How are firms affected by exchange rate shocks?
(2015)KOF Working PapersThis paper studies the effects of a change in the Swiss franc/euro exchange rate floor, as introduced by the Swiss National Bank in September 2011 using a survey based impulse responses analysis. Survey based impulse responses incorporate experimental settings into representative firm surveys, expose firm executives to treatment or shock scenarios and evaluate the effects of the shocks on executives’ expected firm-level out- comes. Our ...Working Paper -
A Note on the Carlson-Parkin Method of Quantifying Qualitative Data
(2007)KOF Working PapersQualitative surveys enjoy huge popularity among business cycle analysts and research institutes since they provide fast information on the stance of the economy. However, in order to derive quantitative statements researchers have to rely on assumptions about the relation between quantitative and qualitative information. This paper introduces a micro data set that combines individual quantitative and qualitative information and presents ...Working Paper