Ulrich Kaiser- Dr.
- Professor (Full) at University of Zurich
Ulrich Kaiser
- Dr.
- Professor (Full) at University of Zurich
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How do persistent gender norms affect women's current startup activity? We investigate whether historical gender norms - measured by Switzerland's 1981 public referendum on enshrining gender equality as a constitutional right - influence female startup activity today. Using data from all 2,308 Swiss municipalities from 2016 to 2023, we show that ge...
This paper links the outcome of a 1981 vote on the constitutional equality of men and women in Switzerland to contemporary startup activity of women relative to men. We find that there remains a statistically and economically high correlation of the historic voting outcome and present day entrepreneurial activity at the municipality level.
Employees with relevant knowledge and skills for digitalization have become increasingly important for the competitiveness of MNCs. However, the shortage of such digital human capital in many host countries is putting pressure on MNC subsidiaries to prevent these employees from leaving. We theorize that the retention of digital human capital in MNC...
Understanding government institutions in a host country is crucial for MNC subsidiaries. This is challenging, as host-country institutions not only relate to formal institutions, such as laws and regulations, but also to informal institutions, like traditions and beliefs. We study the hiring of employees with government work experience as a channel...
Research Summary: The ability of innovative firms to create and capture value depends on innovations that are quickly and widely adopted. Yet, stakeholder concerns can establish important barriers to diffusion. We study the human capital aspect of this challenge and investigate whether innovative firms pay salary premiums to new hires with work exp...
The economic return to public and private R&D is of enormous interest to academics and policy makers. First, private returns to R&D appear to be large and larger than the returns to alternative investments. Second, private R&D and R&D subsidies are positively correlated and there is no evidence for crowding out effects. Third, R&D cooperation incre...
We review the Economics literature on Newspapers and Magazines. Our emphasis is on the newspaper industry, especially in the United States, given that this has been the focus of existing research. We first discuss the structure of print media markets, describing the rise in the number of daily newspapers during the early 20th century and then the s...
We study how startup teams are assembled in terms of team member human capital characteristics. To this end, we derive a statistically motivated benchmark for new venture team heterogeneity in terms of observed team member characteristics to generate stylized facts about team member diversity at startup and how it evolves as the new venture matures...
The paper describes simple econometric methods for the analysis of default risk and applies them to a data set obtained from credit files taken from six large German universal banks. The paper focuses on probit and logit models which enable the credit analyst to quantify the default probability of an individual credit. Recent developments in the an...
Virtually all empirical firm-level studies on the demand for heterogeneous labor do not include labor cost in the econometric specification. This is due to the fact that business and innovation survey data usually lack differentiated information on labor cost. This paper shows how reliable skill-specific and firm-specific labor cost can be calculat...
This paper develops and estimates a structural model of exit from the German magazine market makes it possible to study the effects of changes in production cost and demand on exit. I derive a system of three equations for magazine demand, advertising demand and a first–order–condition for profit maximization that determines marginal cost. Magazine...
