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Essays in macro-finance and deep learning

This thesis studies the origins and consequences of financial crises, and computational techniques to solve continuous-time economic models that explain such crises. The first chapter shows that financial recessions are typically characterised by a large r ...

EPFL2023

Climate-Neutral Aviation: how will it affect communities, companies, citizens?

Sascha Nick

Science tells us that a climate-responsible aviation is much smaller, given the urgency and limited contribution of future efficiency gains and biofuels. If flying becomes more exceptional and expensive, how can we collectively prepare, and what will this ...

2023

Conditions of habitability in a Persistent Company Town. Rethinking the industrial cities and their productive habitats

Anna Karla De Almeida Milani

A company town can be defined as a settlement completely owned by an entrepreneur or a company, which builds and manages the community following business and production needs, coordinating all the facilities, including the houses, stores, the school, and e ...

2022

The Biopolitics of Habitability in a Persistent Company Town. Rethinking the Industrial Cities and Their Productive Habitats

Anna Karla De Almeida Milani

Company towns are cities founded during the Industrial Revolution by single enterprises operating as employers and landlords, enforcers of security, promoters of social harmony, and providers of services and goods for workers to enhance the living and heal ...

2022

Stress tests and loan pricing—Evidence from syndicated loans

Luisa Lambertini, Abhik Mukherjee

This paper estimates the impact of stress-testing on lending spreads. We use firm-level data onsyndicated loans matched with bank holding company (BHC) data in our panel regressions.Using a difference-in-difference framework, we find: (1) BHCs that failed ...

2021

Stress tests and loan pricing—Evidence from syndicated loans

Luisa Lambertini, Abhik Mukherjee

This paper estimates the impact of stress-testing on lending spreads. We use firm-level data on syndicated loans matched with bank holding company (BHC) data in our panel regressions. Using a difference-in-difference framework, we find: (1) BHCs that faile ...

2021

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

Three Essays in Banking and Finance

Damien Olivier Klossner

This thesis develops three models that study the motivation of various agents to take on debt, and the impact that excessive financial leverage can have on social welfare. In the chapter "Short-term Bank Leverage and the Value of Liquid Reserves", the ince ...

EPFL2019

Towards companies that perform within the earth’s regenerative capacity COMPANIES THAT PERFORM WITHIN THE EARTH’S REGENERATIVE CAPACITY

The latest Living Planet Report of WWF shows that we used the regenerative capacity of 1.5 planets in 2010 at present consumption levels. An increasing number of companies set targets to lower the impact of their activities on the environment, but such tar ...

A World Resources Forum Production, PSI2017

Capital gains and architectural losses: the transformative journey of Caudill Rowlett Scott (1948–1994)

Paolo Tombesi

The history of Caudill Rowlett Scott (CRS) provides a powerful account of the cultural transformations, technological shifts and socio-political opportunities that shaped the idea of professional practice in the United States of America between the end of ...

2016

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