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Tiers of joy? Reserve tiering and bank behavior in a negative-rate environment

Negative interest rate regimes typically involve reserve tiering to exempt a portion of bank reserves from negative rates. We study the effects on bank behavior of a large and unanticipated change in reserve tiering by the Swiss National Bank that generate ...

2024

Circularity by stock in Sri Lanka: Economic necessity meets urban fabric renovation

Paolo Tombesi, Milinda Pathiraja

Persistent fiscal and political mismanagement, together with the financial pressures of the COVID-19 pandemic, have driven Sri Lanka into a social and economic crisis triggering a decrease in national foreign exchange reserves, an inability to purchase vit ...

FRONTIERS MEDIA SA2023

Long-Distance Coherent Propagation of High-Velocity Antiferromagnetic Spin Waves

Jean-Philippe Ansermet, Haiming Yu

We report on coherent propagation of antiferromagnetic (AFM) spin waves over a long distance (similar to 10 mu m) at room temperature in a canted AFM alpha-Fe2O3 owing to the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI). Unprecedented high group velocities (up ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2023

Heterogeneity in decentralized asset markets

Julien Hugonnier

We study a canonical model of decentralized exchange for a durable good or asset, where agents are assumed to have time-varying, heterogeneous utility types. Whereas the existing literature has focused on the special case of two types, we allow agents' uti ...

ECONOMETRIC SOCIETY2022

Trading mechanisms in over-the-counter markets

Sebastian Vogel

In the chapter ``When to Introduce Electronic Trading Platforms in Over-the-Counter Markets?'' An equilibrium in a market is determined in which traders have the choice between using an electronic platform with a request-for-quote protocol or calling a dea ...

EPFL2020

Exchange Rate Analysis by Nonlinear Time Series Method

Maria-Alexandra Paun

A financial data analysis using the time series method has been performed. At the same time a correct interpretation of daily exchange rates fluctuations, for Eur foreign currencies is presented. The fractal dimension evaluation has been performed using th ...

AMER INST PHYSICS2020

Regional Effects of Exchange Rate Fluctuations

Christian Pröbsting

We exploit differences across U.S. states' exposure to trade to study the effects of changes in the exchange rate on economic activity. Across states, trade-weighted exchange rate depreciations are associated with increased state exports, reduced state une ...

2020

Quantifying Endogeneity of Cryptocurrency Markets

Thomas Alois Weber, Michael Mark

We construct a ‘reflexivity’ index to measure the activity generated endogenously within a market for cryptocurrencies. For this purpose, we fit a univariate self-exciting Hawkes process with two classes of parametric kernels to high-frequency trading data ...

2022

Exact Smooth Term Structure Estimation

Damir Filipovic, Sander Félix M Willems

We present a non-parametric method to estimate the discount curve from market quotes based on the Moore-Penrose pseudoinverse. The discount curve reproduces the market quotes perfectly, has maximal smoothness, and is given in closed-form. The method is eas ...

2018

Exact Smooth Term-Structure Estimation

Damir Filipovic, Sander Félix M Willems

We present a nonparametric method to estimate the discount curve from market quotes based on the Moore-Penrose pseudoinverse. The discount curve reproduces the market quotes perfectly, has maximal smoothness, and is given in closed-form. The method is easy ...

SIAM PUBLICATIONS2018

Acquirers and Financial Constraints - Theory and Evidence from Emerging Markets

Christian Pröbsting

Financial crises in emerging market economies induce diverging patterns of ownership stakes and subsequent divestiture rates among domestic and foreign acquirers. We rationalize these empirical findings in a tractable model where domestic acquirers are sub ...

2021

The hydropower-Europe forum and the technology roadmap

Anton Schleiss

A new EU initiative, Hydropower-Europe, is reported here. This work, soon to be launched, will provide a framework for the hydropower sector in Europe to define a research and innovation agenda, and technology roadmap. The initiative is expected to help po ...

2018

Financial Stability and the Macroeconomy : the Role of Bank Liquidity Regulation and Deposit Insurance

Corinne Dubois

The financial crisis of 2007-2009 drew attention to the essential role of banks for the macroeconomy and to the importance of having a resilient financial sector. A vulnerability in the financial sector spills over to the real economy and can drive it into ...

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

Study of fast exchanging processes by NMR Spectroscopy

Estel Canet Martinez

Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy is one of the most powerful and informative methods to probe molecular dynamics. Specifically, chemical exchange is an important phenomenon and one of the earliest and most vigorously investigated in NMR spectr ...

EPFL2017

Entrepreneurial advice sources and their antecedents Venture stage, innovativeness and internationalization

Christopher Tucci, Bettina Lynda Bastian

Purpose - Entrepreneurs interact with others and, through this, benefit from access to knowledge, resources and skills that enhance their own entrepreneurial and organizational capabilities. This paper aims to contribute to the literature interested in ide ...

Emerald Group Publishing Ltd2017

The total benefit of alternative assets to pension fund portfolios

Anna Slavutskaya

Pension funds only quite recently have explored alternative assets, prodded by financial crises that devastated equity returns and led to low bond returns. We assess the addition of alternative assets to pension fund portfolios in terms of the total benefi ...

Elsevier Science Bv2016

Development of the methodology for the evaluation of a hydro-pumped storage power plant: Swiss case study

Edgard Gnansounou, Nikolaos Iliadis

During the last two decades, an evolving market structure is recognised starting from the spot market and its derivatives, resulting to several other markets such as the Intraday Market (IM), the Balancing Market (BM) and the Reserve Capacity Market (RCM). ...

Elsevier Science Bv2016

A Multiport Isolated DC-DC Converter

Drazen Dujic, Yan-Kim Tran

This paper presents a multi-port isolated DC-DC converter for DC applications. A three-port structure is presented, characterized with full bidirectional power flow and simple control. Galvanic isolation is achieved by means of a multi-winding medium frequ ...

IEEE2016

Portfolio and welfare consequences of debt market dominance

Serhiy Stepanchuk

The ability to issue debt that pays in units of the domestic good leads a country to accumulate a large and negative net foreign asset position while maintaining a positive position in equity. This debt market advantage also helps to explain the weak relat ...

Elsevier Science Bv2015

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