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Asset life, leverage, and debt maturity matching
Capital ages and must eventually be replaced. We propose a theory of financing in which firms borrow to finance investment and deleverage as capital ages to have enough financial slack to finance replacement investments. To achieve these dynamics, firms is ...
Lausanne2024COVID-19: data-driven dynamic asset allocation in times of pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated the importance and value of multi-period asset allocation strategies responding to rapid changes in market behavior. In this article, we formulate and solve a multi-stage stochastic optimization problem, choosing the ...
AMER INST MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES-AIMS2021Framework to Approximate the Value of Information of Bridge Load Testing for Reserve Capacity Assessment
Ian Smith, Numa Joy Bertola, Marco Proverbio
In developed countries, structural assessment of existing bridges should not be performed using the same conservative models that are used at the design stage. Field measurements of real behavior provide additional information for the inference of previous ...
2020The organisation of science: topics, incentives and funding.
Ever since the links between the development of new technologies and economic growth became evident, researchers have attempted to study how the creation of knowledge fosters progress. If pushing the frontier of knowledge has an impact on progress and well ...
EPFL2020Investment Dynamics with Natural Expectations
We study an investment model in which agents have the wrong beliefs about the dynamic properties of fundamentals. Specifically, we assume that agents underestimate the rate of mean reversion. The model exhibits the following six properties: (i) Beliefs are ...
2018Financial Stability and the Macroeconomy
The financial crisis of 2007-2009 drew attention to the essential role of banks for the macroeconomy and to the importance of having a resilient financial sector. A vulnerability in the financial sector spills over to the real economy and can drive it into ...
EPFL2018Supply Chain Management in Process Industries: Empirical Investigations for Commodity Markets
Process industries (PI) have thrived in recent decades, but structural changes in the markets are currently putting both growth and profitability at risk. In a period of tumbling prices, supply chain management (SCM) is increasingly viewed as an essential ...
EPFL2016Collaborative working capital management in supply networks
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 ...
EPFL2010Essays on Equilibrium Asset Pricing
Rodolfo Javier Prieto Katunaric
This thesis consists of three chapters. The first chapter endogenizes technological change by introducing a stylized innovation process driven by a R&D–dependent Poisson process in a Cox, Ingersoll and Ross (1985) production economy. The model reproduces s ...
EPFL2010Benchmarking of hydroelectric stochastic risk management models using financial indicators
Matthias Finger, Pierre-André Haldi
The objective of this paper is to present the operating and hedging analysis of a hydroelectric system in a non-hydro dominated market using a specifically-developed tool for operating and contracting decisions. Hydropower companies are likely to face stoc ...
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