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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 ...

EPFL2017

Excessive Volatility is Also a Feature of Individual Level Forecasts

Anjali Devi Vanapilli Nursimulu

The excessive volatility of prices in financial markets is one of the most pressing puzzles in social science. It has led many to question economic theory, which attributes beneficial effects to markets in the allocation of risks and the aggregation of inf ...

Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd2014

Patent-free Innovation: a review of economic works including the analysis of a recent work in the field of experimental economics

Dominique Foray

This article is inspired by the observation of a massive change of opinion on the part of economists regarding the question of the patent as a mechanism allowing an economically acceptable solution to be found to the so-called “imperfect appropriability” p ...

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Bibliometrics as Weapons of Mass Citation - La bibliométrie comme arme de citation massive

Geoffrey Bodenhausen

The allocation of resources for research is increasingly based on so-called ‘bibliometrics’. Scientists arenow deemed to be successful on the sole condition that their work be abundantly cited. This world-wide trendappears to enjoy support not only by gran ...

Schweizerische Chemische Gesellschaft2010

The local minority game

Paolo De Los Rios

Ecologists and economists try to explain collective behavior in terms of competitive systems of selfish individuals with the ability to learn from the past. Statistical physicists have been investigating models which might contribute to the understanding o ...

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