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Moral hazard
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EPFL2021Essays in Banking and Financial Regulation
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EPFL2021Short-term debt and incentives for risk-taking
Erwan Morellec, Francesca Maria Zucchi
We challenge the view that short-term debt curbs moral hazard and demonstrate that, in a world with financing frictions and fair debt pricing, short-term debt generates incentives for risk-taking. To do so, we develop a model in which firms are financed wi ...
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA2020Environmental care and morality: An economic model with heterogeneous agents
Boris Thurm, Charles Chadi Ayoubi
Some individuals voluntarily engage in costly pro-environmental actions although their efforts have limited direct benefits. This paper proposes a novel economic model with heterogeneous agents explaining why. Each agent has a homo moralis type of preferen ...
2020Strategic Objectives For State-Owned Enterprises As A Means To Mitigate Political Interference: An Empirical Analysis Of Two Swiss State-Owned Enterprises
Matthias Finger, Fabian Liechti
When governments act as owners of state-owned enterprises (SOEs), they are both principal and agent at the same time. The literature on steering SOEs has mainly focused on the government as the principal that must control SOEs. However, the government is a ...
WILEY2019The diversity of moral preferences: Evolutionary foundations and some implications in environmental economics
Empirical evidence suggests that there exists substantial heterogeneity in individuals' social preferences. However, there is little theoretical basis supporting this observation and economic models often assume that all individuals are identical. Hence, t ...
EPFL2019Managing Risks when Using Nanomaterials in Research
Thierry Meyer, Amela Groso, Anna Maria Novello, Elina Buitrago
As the number of engineered nanomaterials (ENM) used in research increases with an incredible speed, health and safety specialists are continuously faced with the challenge of evaluating the risks involved with these materials. Nowadays there is not enough ...
2019IT Investment and its impacts
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 ...
EPFL2018Essays in Corporate Finance
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 ...
EPFL2018Essays in Financial Economics
Christoph Helmut Peter Herpfer
This thesis contains four chapters, each of which utilizes new or unusual data sources to analyze a different area of financial economics. In the first chapter, I construct a novel dataset linking individual bankers to large borrowers in the U.S. syndicate ...
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