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

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 Corporate Finance

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In this thesis I study how firms choose their optimal debt maturity. The recent financial crisis illustrated why debt maturity is an important determinant of firmsâ capital structure and it also renewed economistsâ interest in this topic, see for examp ...

EPFL2018

Social Innovation and Resilience: exploring the dynamics and impacts on the digital transformation of governance & society

Gianluca Carlo Misuraca, Gianluigi Viscusi

This paper is set out to establish the foundations for developing a framework to assess the potential impact of social policy innovation to contribute to the debate on the future of welfare systems. This calls in fact for monitoring the evolution of social ...

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Governing the Use of Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technologies: Not One-Size-Fits-All

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Blockchain and distributed ledger technologies (DLTs) have the capacity to improve how many companies and organizations conduct transactions or store information securely, among many other potential benefits. However, their development and implementation d ...

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Multiple Objectives of Lawful-Surveillance Protocols

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In recent work on open, privacy-preserving, accountable surveillance, we have proposed the use of cryptographic protocols that enable law-enforcement and intelligence agencies to obtain actionable information about targeted users of mass-communication syst ...

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