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Price Theory in Economics

Thomas Alois Weber

This article describes how prices are treated in economic theory. Section 17.2 begins by introducing the concepts of ‘rational preference’ and ‘utility function’, which are standard building blocks of models that attempt to explain choice behaviour. Sectio ...

Oxford University Press2012

Systemic Risk in Energy Derivative Markets: A Graph-Theory Analysis

Franck Claude Raynaud

This article uses graph theory to provide novel evidence regarding market integration, a favorable condition for systemic risk to appear in. Relying on daily futures returns covering a 12-year period, we examine cross- and inter-market linkages, both withi ...

2012

The thermodynamics of devices with solid layered-bed magnetocaloric refrigerants

Didier Albert Simon Vuarnoz, Gilles Courret

In conventional refrigeration the use of the T S diagram to determine thermodynamic cycle performance is a well accepted tool. This method is based on a single state description of the gaseous refrigerant during its cycling. Devices filled with a magnetoca ...

Elsevier2012

Optimal service pricing for a cloud cache

Anastasia Ailamaki, Grégory François, Debabrata Dash, Sofia Kyriakopoulou

Cloud applications that offer data management services are emerging. Such clouds support caching of data in order to provide quality query services. The users can query the cloud data, paying the price for the infrastructure they use. Cloud management nece ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2011

Optimal service pricing for a cloud cache

Anastasia Ailamaki, Grégory François, Debabrata Dash, Sofia Kyriakopoulou

2011

Demand Response Using Service Curves

Jean-Yves Le Boudec, Dan-Cristian Tomozei

We propose an alternative approach, based on ``service curves", which uses the following two ingredients. (1) The rate at which a consumer may draw power from the grid may be controlled by real time signals. Typical concerned devices would be heating syste ...

2011

Carbon Markets and Technological Innovation

Thomas Alois Weber

This paper examines the effects of firm-level innovation in carbon-abatement technologies on optimal cap-and-trade schemes with and without price controls. We characterize optimal cap-and-trade regulation with a price cap and a price floor, and compare it ...

2010

Regulatory Risk and Uncertainty in British Postal Regulation - A Governance Perspective

Martin Maegli

In this paper we focus on risk and uncertainty caused by the (1) discretionary behavior of regulatory bodies and (2) the instruments and mechanisms implemented to regulate public services in general and the postal sector in particular. In previous articles ...

2009

Three essays on access to knowledge

Patrick Gaulé

The first chapter of this thesis, coauthored with Annamaria Conti, seeks to add an economic contribution to the current debate on using university licensing contracts to improve access to medicines in developing countries. We build a simple model in which ...

EPFL2009

The Effect of Energy Efficiency Enhancement on Innovation and Competitiveness

Philippe Thalmann, Camille Gonseth

Our results lend support to the Porter Hypothesis and provide a clue to the underlying mechanism. We try to get at the causal effect of energy prices on TFP using a set of observations made annually on a large number of manufacturing industries located in ...

Créa/UNIL2009