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U.S. Seminar: Current & Past Award Winners

The best performance in the U.S. Seminar "Business, Law and Economic Policy" is rewarded with CHF 1'000. Here’s an overview of the best contributions of the last years.

2025 Award

2025 Award

Barbu Dragomir: "Is There an Optimal Level of Market Concentration in the Airline Industry? - EU and U.S. Compared"
Rui Gao: "Are Workers with Qualification Mismatches More Likely to Switch Jobs? Evidence From Switzerland"
Fabian Rasonyi: "Dynamic Pricing in the Restaurant Industry: An Economic Analysis of the Wendy’s Case"

Award 2024

2024 Award

Aulis Pesenti: The Economic Dynamics of the Effect of Covid-19 Policies in OECD Countries: A Diff-in-Diff Event Study

2023 Award

2023 Award

Lisa Jeambrun: "Does Sustainability Have an Influence on Mergers and Acquisitions? Reasons for Considering the Green Factor and Analysis of Target Integration in the Post-Merger Company"
Marvin Geiger: "An Analysis of the Effect of Corporate Income Taxes on Debt Levels. A Comparison between Switzerland and the United States"

Award Winner 2022

2022 Award

Angelina Ilyukhina: "Assessing Risks of Collusive Behavior when Firms use Blockchain",
Andrey Shmelev: "Do Cryptocurrencies Facilitate Tax Evasion? An Economic Analysis Based on the U.S. and Swiss Tax Regulation"and
Ann-Kathrin Störr: "Applying a Floor Price for Flight Tickets – The Way to Fight Climate Change?".

2021 Award

2021 Award

Cyril Fiechter: "Stock Market Value of Tesla Greater than the Value of BMW, Daimler, and VW Combined: An Attempted Explanation"
Benedikt Klotz: "To Kill or to Drill? The Impact of Evolving Bankruptcy Laws on Distressed Firms in the United States and Europe"

2021 Award

2021 Award

Alexander Marx: "Home Bias in the United States and Switzerland - Does it hurt?"

2019 Award

2019 Award

Selma Catakovic: "The role of financial stress for the effectiveness of quantitative easing: a comparison between the US and the Euro Area".

2018 Award

2018 Award

Sandro Brogli: "Private vs. Public Education: A Theoretical Decision Model Regarding the Optimal Demand of Higher Education"
Lukas Erny: "The Degree of Federalism in Different Nations and its Effect on Their Citizens’ Political Involvement"

2017 Award

2017 Award

Tina Buchmeier: "Job Security in the Labor Market Model: The Effects on Wage and Employment"

2016 Award

2016 Award

Julia Fischer: "Who Follows Whom: Dynamics between Public and Elite Opinion. An Analysis of Swiss Environment Preferences"

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