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Alternative approach to scoring in MATSim and how it affects activity rescheduling
(2017)Arbeitsberichte Verkehrs- und RaumplanungImprovements of or technological advancements in the transportation systems have always influenced the demand for traveling and activity scheduling of people. Disruptive inventions like the invention of wheel or locomotive have brought substantial changes. Autonomous vehicles are promising to do the same. Consequently, there is a need for suitable tools to model these changes. In this paper we present improvements of a previously developed ...Working Paper -
Job Mobility, Peer Effects, and Research Productivity in Economics
(2013)KOF Working PapersAnalysing a comprehensive panel dataset of economists working at Austrian, German, and Swiss universities, we investigate how the local environment influences a scientist’s research productivity. The research environment varies if a scientist joins another department or if the characteristics of his colleagues change. We find no influence of the research environment on the average researcher’s productivity, if we control for individual ...Working Paper -
Technology diversification, product innovations, and technology transfer
(2009)KOF Working PapersThis paper investigates the relationship between technology specialization and innovation performance of firms emphasizing technology transfer activities with universities as an important knowledge source in order to attenuate the opportunity costs of technological specialization. Based on an econometric analysis combining patent data and survey data on technology transfer activities of firms it was found that technology transfer is ...Working Paper -
Business tendency surveys and macroeconomic fluctuations
(2015)KOF Working PapersWe investigate the information content of business tendency surveys for key macroeconomic variables in Switzerland. To summarise the information of a large data set of sectoral business tendency surveys we extract a small number of common factors by a principal components estimator. The estimator is able to deal with mixed-frequency data and missing observations at the beginning and end of the sample period. We show that these survey-based ...Working Paper -
Monatlicher Verbrauch von Heizöl extraleicht im Dienstleistungssektor
(2000)CEPE Working PaperWorking Paper -
Anmerkungen zur Schuldenbremse
(2003)KOF Working PapersVolk und Stände der Schweiz beschlossen 2001, den absoluten Schuldenstand des Staates im Konjunkturverlauf zu begrenzen. Damit hat die Eidgenossenschaft einen Weg eingeschlagen, der sich von dem der Mitglieder des europäischen Stabilitätspaktes unterscheidet. Diese halten eine positive Obergrenze der Verschuldung relativ zur Wirtschaftsleistung für optimal. Dieser Artikel soll zeigen, dass die Umsetzung des Verfassungsartikels einerseits ...Working Paper -
Residential search and location choice in Singapore
(2017)Arbeitsberichte Verkehrs- und RaumplanungAs many spatial choices, residential location choices are made from a large pool of potential alternatives. This study evaluates choice sets based on households’ search preferences as a new alternative to the more commonly applied random or weighted sampling, using a recent movers survey conducted in Singapore. Residential units are taken as the unit of analysis. Descriptive analysis reveals that households search in a limited area and ...Working Paper -
Hetereogenous travel activity patterns in Japan: Accounting for inter-dependencies in mobility tool use
(2017)Arbeitsberichte Verkehrs- und RaumplanungUsing data from the Japanese 5 th nationwide person trip survey, a joint model of trip frequencies by mode (car, transit and non-motorized) is estimated using a generalized heterogeneous data model to account for inter-dependencies stemming from unobserved factors. The estimated model successfully captures the effect of common unobserved factors on trip frequencies by mode underscoring the need to account for modal inter-dependencies to ...Working Paper -
Energy task reform with excemptions for the energy-intensive export sector
(2001)Working paper / Institute for Empirical Research in EconomicsWorking Paper