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The Pass-through of Bank Capital Requirements to Corporate Lending Spreads

We study the impact of higher bank capital requirements on corporate lending spreads using granular bank- and loan-level data. Our empirical strategy employs the heterogeneity in capital requirements across banks and time of implementation in Switzerland. ...

2021

SEISMIC VULNERABILITY ASSESSMENT AT LARGE SCALE CASE STUDY: THE CANTON OF BASEL-STADT

Large-scale seismic risk assessment requires knowledge of the vulnerability of buildings. Under the action of an earthquake, buildings with different properties also behave differently. Since it is not possible to analyze each building individually, it is ...

2020

Seismic vulnerability assessment at large scale city of Basel

Romain Savoy

The Basel region is one of the most seismically active regions in Switzerland. Already devastated by Nature in 1356, the city of Basel is now actively involved in assessing the seismic risk on its buildings in order to protect its patrimony and its populat ...

2020

The Pass-through of Bank Capital Requirements to Corporate Lending Spreads

Luisa Lambertini, Abhik Mukherjee, Robert Bichsel

This paper studies the impact of higher bank capital requirements on corporate lending spreads. We conduct an empirical analysis using granular bank- and loan-level data for Switzerland. Overall, we nd a positive relationship between capital ratios, actual ...

2019

Flow measurement for the design optimization of fish pass entries in a run of river hydropower plant

Giovanni De Cesare, Cédric Bron, Pierre Bourqui

The International Commission for the Protection of the Rhine (ICPR) has set the objective of guarantying the upstream migration of the salmons up to Basel, Switzerland, at horizon 2020. One of the last dams to be equipped is the one of Rhinau, in France. T ...

2018

Robust Portfolio Optimization

Zheng Wei Yap

Since the 2008 Global Financial Crisis, the financial market has become more unpredictable than ever before, and it seems set to remain so in the forseeable future. This means an investor faces unprecedented risks, hence the increasing need for robust port ...

EPFL2017

Credit Supply and the Macroeconomy

Abhik Mukherjee

The policy response to the recent financial crisis has broadly focused on two themes: 1) Increasing the banking sectorsâ resilience to future financial shocks: 2) Improving credit availability to households and firms via lowering both short and long-term ...

EPFL2016

Methodology for streams definition and graphical representation in Total Site Analysis

François Maréchal, Greta Martha Van Eetvelde, Laurent Gabriel Félix Alexandre Stéphane Bungener, Elfie Marie Méchaussie

The current regulatory framework in Europe regarding industrial energy consumption puts emphasis on regular energy assessments and increasing energy efficiency. Among the available strategies to identify energy savings opportunities, Total Site Analysis (T ...

2016

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

Un noeud de trafic densifié pour l'EuroAirport Basel Mulhouse Freiburg

Martin Wyss

Today's airports aren't anymore pure interfaces between ground and air. Since several years they are going through an intense development. Their ground and air accessibility attracts real estate development and (re-) links the region it is implemented in. ...

2011

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