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Only recently Goyal, Olver and Shepherd (Proc. STOC, 2008) proved that the symmetric Virtual Private Network Design (sVPN) problem has the tree routing property, namely, that there always exists an optimal solution to the problem whose support is a tree. C ...
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2009Self-assembled ordered mesoporous metals
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EPFL2008The link between innovation and finance
This thesis comprises three essays on the relationship between innovation and finance. Although previous research has acknowledged the multi-faceted nature of innovation, this thesis unpacks its constituent elements, compares alternative drivers of innovat ...
EPFL2008Financial Transmission Rights in Europe’s Electricity Market
Matthias Finger, Christof Lorenz Duthaler
After their theoretical development in the early 1990s, Financial Transmission Rights (FTRs) have been applied in restructured US electricity markets for about a decade now. Lately, FTRs have also been proposed as a potential feature of the emerging Europe ...
2008Diversification into logistics
Postal incumbents in Europe have encountered during the last decade fundamental changes in their industry environment, which now threaten their very business model: governments decided to liberalise first the parcel market, then gradually the letter market ...
EPFL2008Electricity regulation in Europe
The introduction of market elements into monopolistic network industries has progressively gained political attention during the past two decades. Antitrust and liberalization reforms have initiated a wide discussion about the industrial organization of th ...
Elsevier2004The dynamic allocative efficiency of a public utility
We apply frontier analysis to test the efficiency of PTT, the mail and telecommunications monopoly of Switzerland ...
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