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Monopoly Pricing with Unknown Demand

Thomas Alois Weber

The optimal pricing of goods, especially when they are new and the innovating firm is a monopolist, must proceed without precise knowledge of the demand curve. This paper provides a pricing method with a relative robustness guarantee by maximizing a perfor ...

Wiley2025

Price Discrimination with Robust Beliefs

Thomas Alois Weber, Jun Han

This paper considers the problem of second-degree price discrimination when the type distribution is unknown or imperfectly specified by means of an ambiguity set. As robustness measure we use a performance index, equivalent to relative regret, which quant ...

Elsevier2023

Essays on the Economics of Innovation: Incentives, Diffusion, and Disparity

Ling Zhou

As an important policy instrument for guiding innovation, the patent system involves a long-standing tension between creating economic rewards for the original innovators and stifling subsequent R&D activities. The availability of new data allows us to pro ...

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

The triangular value of patents

Albina Khairullina

This thesis addresses the question of a patent value from three different angles. It comprises three papers on the patent valuation methods. The patent valuation issues are well-known to the world of research and practice. However, the debates over what th ...

EPFL2020

The Who, Where, What, How and When of Market Entry

Christopher Tucci

This introductory, along with the eight articles contained within this Special Issue, highlights and brings greater clarity to entrant-incumbent interactions and to firm movement - when entrants traverse market territories for the creation and/or delivery ...

WILEY2019

Equilibrium analysis in multi-echelon supply chain with multi-dimensional utilities of inertial players

Naoufel Cheikhrouhou

In a supply chain, the importance of information elicitation from the supply chain players is vital to design supply chain network. The rationality and self-centredness of these players causes the information asymmetry in the supply chain and thus situatio ...

Palgrave Macmillan Ltd2017

Digital transformation, business models and the postal industry

Nandkumar Harshan Kollara

For many decades, the postal industry offered postal services and in parallel, had a monopoly over the national postal markets. Recently, the postal industry endured a phase where their national postal markets were subjected to liberalisation by the respec ...

EPFL2017

Insulation effect on thermal stability of Coated Conductors wires in liquid nitrogen

Bertrand Dutoit, Bertrand Dutoit

Superconducting wires are not perfectly homogeneous in term of critical current as well as stabilization. In resistive fault current limiter applications this could lead to hot spots if the fault current is only slightly above the nominal current of the de ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2017

The Beacon: A New Framework for Business Model Reconfiguration for Complex Enterprises

Deep Ramnik Parekh

During the last twenty years we have witnessed the steady rise in academic research and practitioner interest and inquiry on the topic of business models. The topic is still in its infancy, and thus a lot of literature hitherto has focused on the basics: d ...

EPFL2016

An integrated airline scheduling, fleeting and pricing model for a monopolized market

Michel Bierlaire, Matteo Salani, Bilge Atasoy

In airline schedule planning models, the demand and price information are usually taken as inputs to the model. Therefore, schedule and capacity decisions are taken separately from pricing decisions. In this article, we present an integrated scheduling, fl ...

Wiley-Blackwell2014

Intermediation in a Sharing Economy: Insurance, Moral Hazard, and Rent Extraction

Thomas Alois Weber

Electronic intermediaries have become pervasive in sales transactions for many durables, such as cars, power tools, and apartments. Yet only recently have they successfully tackled the challenge of enabling parties to share such goods. A key impediment to ...

Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd2014

On quantifying ecologically sustainable flow releases in a diverted river reach

Paolo Perona, Lorenzo Gorla

Water demand for hydropower production has been increasing along with a growing awareness of the importance of preserving riparian ecosystems and their biodiversity. Some Cantons in Switzerland have begun replacing the inadequate concept of Minimum Flow Re ...

Elsevier Science Bv2013

Managing Electricity Sourcing in Europe's Energy Intensive Industry : A Methodology to Develop an Electricity Sourcing Strategy

Several regulatory changes in Europe's electricity sector have stimulated competition in the market. National power companies, with monopolistic structures, have evolved into competitive entities, creating increased choices for consumers. Electricity price ...

EPFL2011

Techno-economic analysis of lignocellulosic ethanol: A review

Edgard Gnansounou, Arnaud Dauriat

Lignocellulosic ethanol is expected to be commercialised during the next decade as renewable energy for transport. Competiveness with first generation bioethanol and with gasoline is commonly considered in techno-economic analyses for commercial stage. Sev ...

Elsevier2010

The link between innovation and finance : evidence from survey data

This thesis comprises three essays on the relationship between innovation and finance. Although previous research has acknowledged the multi-faceted nature of innovation, this thesis unpacks its constituent elements, compares alternative drivers of innovat ...

EPFL2008

On optimal bidding strategy modeling in the context of a liberalized electricity market

Elena Vdovina Beck

The electricity markets worldwide have distinctive particularities due to some political and historical reasons. However, principal guidelines of market design remain very similar. The main feature of deregulation is to introduce a competition into the gen ...

EPFL2008

A two-level dynamic game of carbon emission trading between Russia, China, and Annex B countries

Marc Vielle

This paper proposes a computable dynamic game model of the strategic competition between Russia and developing countries (DCs), mainly represented by China, on the international market of emission permits created by the Kyoto Protocol. The model uses a for ...

2008

How much room is left for European gas incumbents?

Bastian Wolfgang Schwark

In the context of the liberalization of the European natural gas market former monopolists face a challenge to react to market opening by realigning their strategies. Three major groups of companies can be identified that are capable to influence the Europ ...

2007

Reform and risk management in the urban water sector : the role of regulation

Traditionally, urban water services were characterised by local monopolies, where the incumbent was publicly-owned. This was explained by safety, health, economic, and technological reasons related to the sector's specificities. However, in spite of this, ...

EPFL2007

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Managing Electricity Sourcing in Europe's Energy Intensive Industry : A Methodology to Develop an Electricity Sourcing Strategy

EPFL2011