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Essays in Bank Financing

Yalda Sigrist

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 ...

EPFL2017

Noncommutative Valuation of Options

The aim of this note is to show that the classical results in finance theory for pricing of derivatives, given by making use of the replication principle, can be extended to the noncommutative world. We believe that this could be of interest in quantum pro ...

2016

Capital Supply Uncertainty, Cash Holdings, and Investment

Semyon Malamud, Erwan Morellec, Julien Hugonnier

We develop a model of investment, financing, and cash management decisions in which investment is lumpy and firms face uncertainty regarding their ability to raise funds in the capital markets. We characterize optimal policies explicitly and show that the ...

2013

Endogenous Dividend Dynamics and the Term Structure of Dividend Strips

Pierre Collin Dufresne

Many leading asset pricing models predict that the term structure of expected returns and volatilities on dividend strips are upward sloping. Yet the empirical evidence suggests otherwise. This discrepancy can be reconciled if EBIT dynamics are combined wi ...

2012

Corporate governance and capital structure dynamics

Erwan Morellec, Norman Schuerhoff, Boris Nikolov

We develop a dynamic tradeoff model to examine the importance of managershareholder conflicts in capital structure choice. In the model, firms face taxation, refinancing costs, and liquidation costs. Managers own a fraction of the firms equity, capture par ...

2012

Corporate investment and financing under asymmetric information

Erwan Morellec, Norman Schuerhoff

We develop a dynamic model of corporate investment and financing decisions in which corporate insiders have superior information about the firm's growth prospects. We show that firms with positive private information can credibly signal their type to outsi ...

2011

Collaborative working capital management in supply networks

Daniel Seifert

Supply chain management is widely accepted as a means for companies to gain competitive advantage. While product and information flows have been widely covered in the literature, relatively little attention has been paid to the management of a supply chain ...

EPFL2010

Large-Scale PIV surface flow measurements in shallow basins with different geometries

Anton Schleiss, Sameh Ahmad Kantoush

Shallow depth flow fields and low velocity magnitudes are often challenges for traditional velocity measuring instruments. As such, new techniques have been developed that provide more reliable velocity measurements under these circumstances. In the presen ...

2009

Large-scale PIV surface flow measurements in shallow basins with different geometries

Anton Schleiss, Sameh Ahmad Kantoush

2009

Capital structure and asset prices: Some effects of bankruptcy procedures

Erwan Morellec

We examine the impact of the U.S. bankruptcy procedure on the valuation of corporate securities and capital structure decisions. We provide closed-form solutions for corporate debt and equity values when defaulting firms can either liquidate their assets o ...

2004