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Flood, farms and credit: The role of branch banking in the era of climate change
Seyed Javad Kashizadeh, Pejman Abedifar
Using Iran's unexpected flood in April 2019 as a natural experiment, we show that local branches bridge the time gap between the disaster and governmental aids by immediately increasing their lending for two months following the flood. Analyzing proprietar ...
Elsevier2024Retrait du carbone, net zéro, et le Fonds Suisse pour les Émissions Négatives
Philippe Thalmann, Sascha Nick
Nous examinons le potentiel des émissions négatives en Suisse et proposons un mode de financement ...
2022Scale effects on efficiency and profitability in the Swiss banking sector
This paper analyzes efficiency and profitability in the Swiss banking sector over the period 1997–2019. We find strong evidence for scale economies: for most banks in the sample, efficiency and profitability increase with bank size. Using an instrumental v ...
2022Shape Memory Effect of Benchmark Compliant Mechanisms Designed With Topology Optimization
Yves Perriard, Thomas Guillaume Martinez, Adrien Jean-Michel Thabuis, Sean Thomas
Shape Memory Alloys (SMA) are a class of Smart Materials that are ideal for creating compact actuators. The complex nature of their behavior results in the use of these materials in simple geometries (wires, sheets) limiting their performances. A design me ...
IEEE2020Essays in Financial Economics
I started my PhD studies in August 2014 with a strong desire to push my own limits without knowing precisely the areas I wanted to cover in detail. To me, it was clear that I was interested by many different fields, however, I was particularly concerned wi ...
EPFL2019Essays in Bank Financing
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 ...
EPFL2017To Fully Net or Not to Net: Adverse Effects of Partial Multilateral Netting
Damir Filipovic, Léo Hamed Amini
We show that partial versus full multilateral netting of interbank liabilities increases bank shortfall and reduces clearing asset price and aggregate bank surplus. We also show that partial multilateral netting can be worse than no netting at all. ...
Informs2016