Dr. Esther Kaiser
Dr. Esther Kaiser
ZHAW
School of Management and Law
Department of Banking, Finance, Insurance
Gertrudstrasse 8
8400 Winterthur
Publications
Articles in scientific journal, peer-reviewed
- Wu, J. et al. (2025) 'The global pursuit : how Chinese MNEs leverage acquisitions to achieve strategic intent', Abhigyan, 43(3), pp. 292–307. doi: 10.1177/09702385251344383.
- Gächter, S., Kaiser, E. and Königstein, M. (2025) 'Incentives crowd out voluntary cooperation : evidence from gift-exchange experiments', Experimental Economics, 28(1), pp. 75–106. doi: 10.1017/eec.2024.14.
- Kaartinen, M. et al. (2017) 'Associations between cooperation, reactive aggression and social impairments among boys with autism spectrum disorder', Autism, 23(1), pp. 154–166. doi: 10.1177/1362361317726417.
- Kessler, E., Prandini, M. and Wu, J. (2014) 'Chinese companies in Switzerland', Central European Business Review, 3(3), pp. 23–30. doi: 10.18267/j.cebr.90.
- Sikavica, K. and Kessler, E. (2013) 'Do market participants perceive blockholders" power and preferences? : locus of control, preference heterogeneity, and firm valuation in the Swiss context', Corporate Ownership and Control, 10(4), pp. 31–46. doi: 10.22495/cocv10i4art3.
Books, peer-reviewed
Kessler, E., Capaul, R. and Caduff, C. (2012) Die Volkswirtschaft : volkswirtschaftliches Grundwissen mit wirtschaftlichen und gesellschaftlichen Vernetzungen. 15. Auflage. Zürich: Verlag Fuchs.
Written conference contributions, peer-reviewed
Wu, J., Kaiser, E. and Ziegler, S. (2022) 'The west knows better? : a case study of the dynamic evolution of knowledge transfer between a Swiss subsidiary and its Chinese parent company', in 22nd EURAM Annual Conference, Winterthur, Switzerland, 15-17 June 2022.
Other publications
- Wu, J. et al. (2025) 'Exportschlager Textilmaschine: Das war einmal. Wird sie es wieder?', Die Volkswirtschaft. doi: 10.21256/zhaw-32852.
- Braun, M., Kessler, E. and Affolter, B. (2019) 'Renminbi-Hub Schweiz: enttäuschte Hoffnungen?', Die Volkswirtschaft, 2019(1-2), pp. 26–29. Available at: https://dievolkswirtschaft.ch/content/uploads/2018/12/DV_12-2019_DE_low-1.pdf.
- Braun, M., Kessler, E. and Affolter, B. (2019) 'Renminbi-Hub Switzerland : dashed hopes?', Swiss-Chinese Chamber of Commerce, pp. 1–4. Available at: http://cn.swisscham.org/sites/default/files/RMB%20Hub%20in%20Switzerland.pdf.
- Kessler, E. et al. (2017) Die Volkswirtschaft : Lehrerhandbuch : Lösungen. 6. überarb. Auflage. Zürich: Orell Füssli.
- Kessler, E. et al. (2017) Die Volkswirtschaft : Grundlagenbuch inkl. E-Book. 18. überarb. Auflage. Zürich: Orell Füssli.
- Kessler, E. (2017) Die Volkswirtschaft : Übungsbuch. 6. überarb. Auflage. Zürich: Orell Füssli.
- Sikavica, K. and Kessler, E. (2013) 'Sinkt Managerlohn mit stärkeren Aktionären?', Finanz und Wirtschaft, 2013(73), p. 16.
- Smith-Collins, A. P. R. et al. (2012) 'Specific neural correlates of successful learning and adaptation during social exchanges', Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 8(8), pp. 887–896. doi: 10.1093/scan/nss079.
Oral conference contributions and abstracts
Kessler, E. (2011) 'Genetic basis of cooperation : using an economic approach', in Research Seminar at Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics, Richmond VA, USA, 2011.