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Modern Portfolio Theory Revisited

David Sébastien Morton de Lachapelle

In the first place the behavior of (online) traders on markets is analyzed and modeled, and it is shown that the average investor behaves as a mean-variance optimizer in finance. Within this description, transaction costs play a key role in explaining obse ...

EPFL2012

Institutional Investors and Mutual Fund Governance: Evidence from Retail-Institutional Fund Twins

Rüdiger Fahlenbrach

Advisors often manage multiple versions of a fund. These "twins" have the same manager and similar performance but are sold to different investors with differing abilities to select and monitor managers. Comparing investor flows in retail and institutional ...

Oxford University Press2012

Modeling the Impacts of Climate Change on the Energy Sector: a Swiss perspective

Marc Vielle, Camille Gonseth

When speaking of energy production and consumption in the context of climate change, the interest usually lies in mitigation policies and measures, i.e. the energy system is seen as an emitter of greenhouse gases. This paper takes a different approach and ...

2012

Seasonal variations of antibiotics measured in the environment from sales data analysis

Luca Rossi, Sylvain Coutu, Jonas Margot, Christa McArdell

Antibiotics are substances commonly consumed by the population under medical prescriptions. These compounds may reach the environment through human excretion as they are partially eliminated in WWTPs. The occurrence of antibiotics in the aquatic environmen ...

2011

Optimal service pricing for a cloud cache

Anastasia Ailamaki, Grégory François, Debabrata Dash, Sofia Kyriakopoulou

Cloud applications that offer data management services are emerging. Such clouds support caching of data in order to provide quality query services. The users can query the cloud data, paying the price for the infrastructure they use. Cloud management nece ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2011

Optimal service pricing for a cloud cache

Anastasia Ailamaki, Grégory François, Debabrata Dash, Sofia Kyriakopoulou

2011

Regulatory Uncertainty and Nonmarket Capabilities

Bastian Wolfgang Schwark

In 2005, the Economist Intelligence Unit conducted a survey with Chief Risk Officers worldwide across all industries and asked about the biggest threat to their businesses. Interestingly, regulatory risk ranked first. It dominated all other types of risk, ...

EPFL2011

Managing Electricity Sourcing in Europe's Energy Intensive Industry

Luis Treviño Villarreal

Several regulatory changes in Europe's electricity sector have stimulated competition in the market. National power companies, with monopolistic structures, have evolved into competitive entities, creating increased choices for consumers. Electricity price ...

EPFL2011

Demand Response Using Service Curves

Jean-Yves Le Boudec, Dan-Cristian Tomozei

Existing methods for demand response either assume direct control of appliances by supplier, or assume that consumers adapt their load by reacting to pricing signals. The former are intrusive and might not scale well; the latter expose consumers to price v ...

2011

Disaggregating Real Exchange Rate Dynamics: A Structural Approach

This paper employs a small open economy DSGE model, estimated over 1986-2009, to decompose the dynamic influence of domestic and international prices on the Canada-US real exchange rate. While the real exchange rate mimics the dynamic behavior of the relat ...

Ghent University Faculty of Economics and Business Administration Working Paper 2010/6552011