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Building Marshall Plan in Turkey: The formation of workers' housing question, 1946-1962

Sila Karatas

This thesis aims to analyze the formation of workers’ housing question at manpower, topographical, morphological and habitual scales with regard to the ideological, political, economical, cultural and institutional programming of Americanization in Turkey ...

Middle East Technical University2015

The Future of Soft Loans as an Instrument of Development Finance: an Assessment

Livia Bianca Fritz

Within the framework of the Post-2015 Development Agenda, discussions on Financing for Development and the future of ODA have intensified recently. Amongst the many financial instruments that are potentially under review, are soft loans. Combining tied aid ...

OEFSE2014

Resource Partitioning and the Organizational Dynamics of ‘Fringe Banking’

Fabiana Visentin

We examine the emergence and proliferation of payday lenders, fringe businesses that provide small short-term, but high-cost loans. We link the organizational dynamics of these businesses to two trends in consumer lending in the United States: the continui ...

American Sociological Association2014

Financial Frictions within the Macroeconomy

Victoria Nuguer

Financial factors are central to the recent economic crisis. Most macroeconomic models treat banks and financial intermediation as a veil. These models are unable to account for the recent financial crisis and they cannot be used for policy evaluation. Fin ...

EPFL2014

Health and (Other) Asset Holdings

Julien Hugonnier, Pascal St-Amour, Florian Pelgrin

Despite clear evidence of correlations between financial and medical statuses and decisions, most models treat financial and health-related choices separately. This paper bridges this gap by proposing a tractable dynamic framework for the joint determinati ...

2013

Health and (Other) Asset Holdings

Julien Hugonnier, Pascal St-Amour, Florian Pelgrin

Despite clear evidence of correlations between financial and medical statuses and decisions, most models treat financial and health-related choices separately. This article bridges this gap by proposing a tractable dynamic framework for the joint determina ...

Oxford Univ Press2013

Demystifying Rational Financial Decision-Making

Anjali Devi Vanapilli Nursimulu

Is the human brain wired for wealth? The setting is the high-velocity financial environment. Undoubtedly, the development of sophisticated derivative instruments has improved the allocation of risk across economies, highlighting the nexus between banking a ...

EPFL2011

Interrelating Operational and Financial Performance Measurements

Ralf Seifert, Margarita Protopappa

Financial supply chain management and working capital management are increasingly receiving attention as important avenues to increase profitability in supply chains. By actively managing payment terms and working capital requirements, managers can influen ...

Elsevier2010

Interrelating operational and financial performance measurements in inventory control

Ralf Seifert, Margarita Protopappa

2010

Robust Multivariate and Nonlinear Time Series Models

Time series modeling and analysis is central to most financial and econometric data modeling. With increased globalization in trade, commerce and finance, national variables like gross domestic productivity (GDP) and unemployment rate, market variables lik ...

EPFL2010