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Distributional justice, effectiveness, and costs of current and alternative solar PV incentive schemes in Switzerland
Like many other countries, Switzerland offers various incentives to promote residential solar PV, but not all households have equal access to them. Using a microsimulation approach based on merged data from the Swiss Household Budget Survey and Household E ...
2024Maneuvering the odds: The dynamics of venture capital decision-making
Research Summary: This article investigates venture capital (VC) decision-making, a process that occurs under changing conditions and limited, ambiguous information. We shed new light on the inherent dynamics of this strategic process. One of the key disti ...
WILEY2023Patron-Driven Acquisition et Evidence-Based Acquisition: Comment implémenter ces modèles afin d’étendre l’offre documentaire dans une bibliothèque ?
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 Université2022Re-evaluating natural resource investments under uncertainty: An alternative to limited traditional approaches
The need to evaluate natural resource investments under uncertainty has given rise to the development of real options valuation; however, the analysis of such investments has been restricted by the capabilities of existing valuation approaches. We re-visit ...
2020Agency conflicts and short- versus long-termism in corporate policies
We build a dynamic agency model in which the agent controls both current earnings via short-term investment and firm growth via long-term investment. Under the optimal contract, agency conflicts can induce short- and long-term investment levels beyond firs ...
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA2020A term structure model for dividends and interest rates
Damir Filipovic, Sander Félix M Willems
Over the last decade, dividends have become a standalone asset class instead of a mere side product of an equity investment. We introduce a framework based on polynomial jump-diffusions to jointly price the term structures of dividends and interest rates. ...
WILEY2020Essays in Financial Economics
This thesis consists of three parts that study separate subjects in corporate finance and corporate governance. The overarching theme is ownership by CEOs and other insiders.
In the first part, which is co-authored work with Rüdiger Fahlenbrach, René M. ...
EPFL2020Financing Biomedical Ventures - Myths and Realities
Angel funding is an important source of capital for startup ventures (J. Sohl 2019), providing a similar level of capital as institutional venture capital (OECD 2011). But angel funding is challenging to study due to the informal nature of the activity. A ...
EPFL2020Benefit and impact of energy system aggregation
Nicolas Francois Claude Louis Oswald Jouron
During the last years, the development of photovoltaics (PV) has favored the creation of solar projects around the world. Nowadays, the majority of PV owners manage their energy independently. However, aggregation of consumers in communities could lead to ...
2020An Optimisation Approach for Long-Term Industrial Investment Planning
François Maréchal, Ivan Daniel Kantor, Hür Ebuzer Bütün
The industrial sector has a large presence in world energy consumption and CO2 emissions, which has made it one of the focal points for energy and resource efficiency studies. However, large investments are required to retrofit existing industrial plants, ...
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