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Diffraction imaging of light induced dynamics in xenon-doped helium nanodroplets
(2022)arXivWe have explored the light induced dynamics in superfluid helium nanodroplets with wide-angle scattering in a pump-probe measurement scheme. The droplets are doped with xenon atoms to facilitate the ignition of a nanoplasma through irradiation with near-infrared laser pulses. After a variable time delay of up to 800 ps, we image the subsequent dynamics using intense extreme ultraviolet pulses from the FERMI free-electron laser. The recorded ...Working Paper -
Power Shifts, Emigration, and Population Sorting
(2022)KOF Working PapersWe investigate the consequences of a peaceful shift of power from one social group to another. Theoretically, we show that an individual’s decision to stay put or migrate depends on the difference between the political preferences of groups and the change in tax. Empirically, we use the case of the unexpected creation of the Canton of Jura in Switzerland, which witnessed a power shift from German to French speakers in the 1970s. We find ...Working Paper -
Fighting Violence Against Women: The Role of Female Political Representation
(2022)Center for Law & Economics Working Paper SeriesWe investigate the effect of women’s political leadership in local government on homicide and violence against women. Using a regression discontinuity design we compare Brazilian municipalities where a female candidate barely won to those where a female candidate barely lost mayoral elections. Having a female mayor reduces homicide rate of women by 20% and violence (physical, psychological, sexual) by 40%. These results are not due to ...Working Paper -
Designing, developing, evaluating, and Implementing a Smartphone-delivered, rule-based COnVERsational agent (DISCOVER): a conceptual framework
(2022)JMIR PreprintsBackground: Conversational agents (CAs), also known as chatbots are computer programs that simulate human conversations using predetermined rule-based responses or employing artificial intelligent algorithms. They are increasingly used in healthcare, particularly via smartphones. There is, at present no conceptual framework guiding the development of smartphone rule-based CAs in healthcare. To fill this gap we propose structured and ...Working Paper -
Does Familiarity with Vocational and Professional Education Shape Employers’ Educational Preferences in Hiring Processes?
(2022)CES Working Paper SeriesEspecially in highly diversified education systems in which employers can choose among qualified applicants with different educational degrees, education is an important signal of an applicant’s unobserved characteristics. Using a factorial survey experiment among employers in Switzerland, we investigate their preferences regarding applicants’ education in the first stage of a hiring process. We find that for entry-level positions, ...Working Paper -
Expect the worst, hope for the best: The valuation of climate risks and opportunities in sovereign bonds
(2022)Economics Working Paper SeriesHow climate aspects affect sovereign bonds is still a new field of research. I differentiate between transition, physical, and innovation aspects of climate risks and climate performance and estimate the pricing-in of these climate aspects in sovereign bond yields for a sample of 29 countries, for the time 2008-2021. The results show that the effects differ between countries with higher and lower credit rating, long- and short term ...Working Paper -
Disagreement Aversion
(2022)Economics Working Paper SeriesDecision-makers rely on experts who often disagree. Aversion to expert disagreement is usually modeled with ambiguity-averse preferences which rest on a unanimity principle: if all experts consider one choice better than another, so should the decision-maker. Such unanimity among experts however can be spurious, masking substantial disagreement on the underlying reasons. We introduce a novel notion of disagreement aversion to distinguish ...Working Paper -
The Labour Market Positioning of Continuing Education from Universities: Evidence from a Factorial Survey Experiment in Switzerland
(2022)CES Working PapersSince the educational expansion in the twentieth century, universities around the globe provide more diversified education programmes to a broader group of individuals. This paper focuses on the case of Switzerland, where universities have responded to this trend by introducing continuing education for individuals with a tertiary degree and work experience. Using data from a factorial survey experiment on hiring decisions of employers, ...Working Paper -
The Incidence of the U.S.–China Solar Trade War
(2022)Economics Working Paper SeriesThis paper investigates the distributional welfare effects of the recent trade war in the solar manufacturing sector resulting from the U.S. government-initiated trade tariffs against Chinese solar manufacturers. Our structural econometric model incorporates the vertical structure between upstream solar manufacturers and downstream solar installers. Counterfactual simulations show the tariffs had a small positive impact on U.S. manufacturers ...Working Paper -
Activity-oriented analysis of induced travel demand
(2022)Arbeitsberichte Verkehrs- und RaumplanungThis guideline was approved on February 15, 2013 by the board of the Swiss Association of Traffic Engineers (SVI) and has been released for publication.Working Paper