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Zero interest-rate policy

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This thesis uses machine learning techniques and text data to investigate the relationships that arise between the Fed and financial markets, and their consequences for asset prices. The first chapter, entitled Market Expectations and the Impact of Unconv ...

EPFL2022

Essays on Mortgage Supply in a Low Rate Environment and Gender Effects of Covid-19

Yu Wu

After the financial crisis, policy rates in the major advanced economies have moved downwards to near/below zero. Some countries have experienced an increase in house prices and an expansion of mortgages. Also, there have been considerable changes in the m ...

EPFL2021

Mortgage Supply and Capital Regulation in a Low Interest Rate Environment

Luisa Lambertini, Yu Wu

Low-for-long nominal interest rates have resulted in strong growth in mort- gage lending and real house prices in Switzerland. Domestically-oriented, small banks have mostly contributed to this expansion in mortgage lending while the two big, global system ...

2020

Job turnover, expectations, and the Phillips Curve

Charles Cosme Henri Dennery

Job turnover makes a wage Phillips Curve less forward-looking, with a smaller coefficient for inflation expectations. Workers discount future wage income with a low discount factor if there is a strong flow of job turnover; this implies that future inflati ...

2019

IT Investment and its impacts : does IT matter during crisis, during financing and in Innovation?

Shameem Hasan

This thesis empirically explored the impacts of IT investment on three different scenarios under the common denominator / threads of IT investments. It comprises three different essays on the impacts of IT investments. IT investments and its impact on many ...

EPFL2018

Essays in Financial Economics

Christoph Helmut Peter Herpfer

This thesis contains four chapters, each of which utilizes new or unusual data sources to analyze a different area of financial economics. In the first chapter, I construct a novel dataset linking individual bankers to large borrowers in the U.S. syndicate ...

EPFL2017

Credit Supply and the Macroeconomy : An Empirical Analysis of Capital Regulation, Bank Lending, and Firm Behavior

Abhik Mukherjee

The policy response to the recent financial crisis has broadly focused on two themes: 1) Increasing the banking sectorsâ resilience to future financial shocks: 2) Improving credit availability to households and firms via lowering both short and long-term ...

EPFL2016

Leaning Against Boom-Bust Cycles in Credit and Housing Prices

Luisa Lambertini

This paper studies the potential gains of monetary and macro-prudential policies that lean against house-price and credit cycles. We rely on a model that features Borrowers and Savers and allows for over-borrowing induced by news-shock-driven cycles. We fi ...

Elsevier2013

Triggers for housing development

Philippe Thalmann

What leads to the development of residential construction projects? If the economic literature is to be believed, developers analyse market opportunities. However, it is difficult to assess those opportunities, for several reasons, e.g. long time horizon f ...

University of Reading2008

Delay and coding in multiple-user communications

Stéphane Musy

In multiple-user communications, the bursty nature of the packet arrival times cannot be divorced from the analysis of the transmission process. However, in traditional information theory the random arrival times are smoothed out by appropriated source cod ...

EPFL2007

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