The creation of spinoff companies is often promoted as a desirable mechanism for transferring knowledge and technologies from research organizations to the private sector for commercialization. However, when…

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• Konjunkturoptimismus festigt sich
• EZB: Gleichbleibende Teuerung erwartet
• USA: Konjunkturerwartungen stabilisieren sich
• Japan: Konjunkturerwartungen stark verbessert
• Großbritannien: Konjunkturerwartungen im Auftrieb
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• Economic Outlook for Switzerland: Steadily Improving
• Current Economic Situation: In an Uptrend
• Inflation Expectations: Stable in The Short Term
• Interest Rates: Expectations Broadly Unchanged
• Stock Market: Lower…

Studying wage dynamics has been a key element of labor economics for a long time. One major finding is the widening of the wage distribution in most developed countries that started in the 1970s in several…

Time preferences play an important role in economics. Among others, time preferences are responsible for the decision on how much people invest in human capital and schooling. For instance stronger preferences…