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Essays in Information-Based Asset Pricing

I started my Ph.D. studies in the Fall 2008, a period ex-post perceived as being at the core of the Financial Crisis. At that time my ideas were vague and I struggled to find a good research topic. As surprising as it might appear, in one single week the d ...

EPFL2013

A new target for gold(I) compounds: glutathione-S.transferase inhibition by auranofin

Paul Joseph Dyson, Christian Hartinger, Angela Casini

Nowadays, gold compounds occupy a relevant position constituting a promising class of experimental anticancer metallodrugs. Several research efforts have been devoted to the investigations of the pharmacological properties of gold(I) complexes bearing phos ...

Elsevier Science Inc2013

Application of a Versatile Nanoparticle Stabilizer in Phase Transfer and Catalysis

Paul Joseph Dyson, Vincent Laporte, Ilaria Biondi

Gold and rhodium nanoparticles stabilized by a cationic polymer can be readily modified by anion exchange to afford nanoparticles that may be dispersed in a wide range of organic solvents and ionic liquids. The catalytic activity of the Rh nanoparticle dis ...

Wiley-V C H Verlag Gmbh2012

Real options and risk aversion

Erwan Morellec, Julien Hugonnier

In the standard real options approach to investment under uncertainty, agents formulate optimal policies under the assumptions of risk neutrality or complete financial markets. Although these assumptions are crucial to the implications of the approach, the ...

2012

Dissecting the Dynamics of the US Trade Balance in an Estimated Equilibrium Model

In an estimated two-country DSGE model, we find that efficiency shocks specific to investment account for more than half of the forecast variance of cyclical fluctuations in the US trade balance. Both domestic and foreign investment-specific shocks have a ...

Ghent University Faculty of Economics and Business Administration Working Paper 2008/5442011

Intergranular penetration of liquid gold into stainless steel

Michel Rappaz, Denis Favez, Léa Deillon, Jean-Daniel Wagnière

Intergranular penetration of liquid 18 K gold into a superaustenitic stainless steel, which occurs during laser welding of these two materials, has been studied using a C-ring device which can be put under tensile stresses by a screw. It is shown that liqu ...

Elsevier2011

Regulatory Uncertainty and Nonmarket Capabilities

Bastian Wolfgang Schwark

In 2005, the Economist Intelligence Unit conducted a survey with Chief Risk Officers worldwide across all industries and asked about the biggest threat to their businesses. Interestingly, regulatory risk ranked first. It dominated all other types of risk, ...

EPFL2011

Mechanistic studies on two dinuclear organogold(III) compounds showing appreciable antiproliferative properties and a high redox stability

Angela Casini

Two dinuclear oxo-bridged organogold(III) compounds, namely [(N,N,C)(2)Au-2(mu-O)]PF6 (with N,N,CH = 6-(1-methylbenzyl)-2,2'-bipyridine, Au(2)O1; or 6-(1,1-dimethylbenzyl)-2,2'-bipyridine, Au(2)O2), were previously prepared and characterised. Their so ...

2011

CLASHING INTERESTS IN THE IPO PROCESS: CONTINGENCIES OF SIGNALING WITH REPUTABLE VC TIES

Giovanni Liotta

In this study I look at how inter-organizational ties with reputable venture capital (VC) firms affect the valuations that entrepreneurial ventures receive from public investors at initial public offerings (IPOs). I propose that the effect of signaling is ...

2011

Gold-Free GaAs Nanowire Synthesis and Optical Properties

Anna Fontcuberta i Morral

To date, the use of gold for the synthesis of nanowires has proven to be nearly impossible to circumvent, regardless of the potential negative effects on the nanowires physical properties. In this paper, the synthesis of gallium arsenide nanowires without ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2011

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