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Online appendix to: Debt dynamics with fixed issuance costs

Julien Hugonnier

We investigate equilibrium debt dynamics for a firm that cannot commit to a future debt policy and is subject to a fixed restructuring cost. We formally characterize equilibria when the firm is not required to repurchase outstanding debt prior to issuing a ...

2022

Patron-Driven Acquisition et Evidence-Based Acquisition: Comment implémenter ces modèles afin d’étendre l’offre documentaire dans une bibliothèque ?

Manon Velasco, Marion Favre

Nowadays, usage-based acquisition models for e-books, as PDA and EBA, are quite spread and allow libraries to offer wider collections, without acquiring them. A PDA with Ebook Central was implemented in 2019 and a first EBA with Wiley in 2021. The EPFL Lib ...

Liège Université Library2023

Orthos: A Trustworthy AI Framework for Data Acquisition

Boi Faltings, Sujit Prakash Gujar

Information acquisition through crowdsensing with mobile agents is a popular way to collect data, especially in the context of smart cities where the deployment of dedicated data collectors is expensive and ineffective. It requires efficient information el ...

Springer2021

Lifetime investment and consumption with recursive preferences and small transaction costs

Yaroslav Melnyk

We investigate the effects of small proportional transaction costs on lifetime consumption and portfolio choice. The extant literature has focused on agents with additive utilities. Here, we extend this analysis to the archetype of nonadditive preferences: ...

WILEY2020

NRStitcher: non-rigid stitching of terapixel-scale volumetric images

Anne Bonnin, Arttu Ilari Miettinen

A Summary: In modern microscopy, the field of view is often increased by obtaining an image mosaic, where multiple sub-images are taken side-by-side and combined post-acquisition. Mosaic imaging often leads to long imaging times that can increase the proba ...

Oxford University Press2019

Why Does Fast Loan Growth Predict Poor Performance for Banks?

Rüdiger Fahlenbrach

From 1973 to 2014, the common stock of U.S. banks with loan growth in the top quartile of banks over a three-year period significantly underperformed the common stock of banks with loan growth in the bottom quartile over the next three years. After the per ...

2018

The More Economic Approach To Predatory Pricing

The "more economic approach" was introduced to antitrust to achieve a more effect-based and theoretically grounded enforcement. However, related to predatory pricing it resulted in systematic over- and under-enforcement: Economic theory does not require do ...

2018

Synchrophasor-Based ROCOF Measurements: Feasibility in Real-World Scenarios

Mario Paolone, Asja Derviskadic, Guglielmo Frigo

In modern power systems, Rate of Change of Frequency (ROCOF) is employed in monitoring and control applications. However, a standard approach towards ROCOF measurements is still missing. In this paper, we investigate the feasibility of Phasor Measurement U ...

IEEE2018

Essays in Bank Financing

Yalda Sigrist

This thesis examines the optimal mode of financing for banks and financial institutions. The first chapter, which is a joint work with Prof. Jean-Charles Rochet, investigates how Systemically Important Financial Institutions (SIFIs) should be financed. The ...

EPFL2017

Essays in Information-Based Asset Pricing

Michael Nicolas Hasler

I started my Ph.D. studies in the Fall 2008, a period ex-post perceived as being at the core of the Financial Crisis. At that time my ideas were vague and I struggled to find a good research topic. As surprising as it might appear, in one single week the d ...

EPFL2013

Corporate Finance, Asset Returns, and Credit Risk

Philip Valta

This dissertation consists of three chapters. The first chapter empirically investigates how the intensity of product market competition affects the cost of debt. Using a large sample of loans to publicly traded US manufacturing firms, the chapter provides ...

EPFL2010

Collaborative working capital management in supply networks

Supply chain management is widely accepted as a means for companies to gain competitive advantage. While product and information flows have been widely covered in the literature, relatively little attention has been paid to the management of a supply chain ...