Publications by Luisa Lambertini

Solar Multimodal Transformer: Intraday Solar Irradiance Predictor Using Public Cameras and Time Series

Demetri Psaltis, Mario Paolone, Christophe Moser, Luisa Lambertini, Yanan Niu

Accurate intraday solar irradiance forecasting is crucial for optimizing dispatch planning and electricity trading. For this purpose, we introduce a novel and effective approach that includes three distinguishing components from the literature: 1) the unco ...

IEEE2025

Meteorological information prediction using images from webcams

Demetri Psaltis, Christophe Moser, Luisa Lambertini

One aspect of the present invention proposes a method of predicting meteorological information by using an artificial deep neural network. The present invention according to one example focuses on image processing, specifically on fusing a plurality of ima ...

2025

Intraday solar irradiance forecasting using public cameras

Demetri Psaltis, Mario Paolone, Christophe Moser, Luisa Lambertini

With the significant increase in photovoltaic (PV) electricity generation, more attention has been given to PV power forecasting. Indeed, accurate forecasting allows power grid operators to better schedule and dispatch their assets, such as energy storage ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2024

GROWTH, HOUSING, AND GLOBAL IMBALANCES

Luisa Lambertini, Serhiy Stepanchuk, Luis Franjo Garcia

In the decade leading to the Great Recession, the United States experienced rising house prices and current account deficits, whereas China and other fast-growing Asian economies saw rising house prices accompanied by current account surpluses. To explain ...

2023

Stress tests and loan pricing—Evidence from syndicated loans

Luisa Lambertini, Abhik Mukherjee

This paper estimates the impact of stress-testing on lending spreads. We use firm-level data onsyndicated loans matched with bank holding company (BHC) data in our panel regressions.Using a difference-in-difference framework, we find: (1) BHCs that failed ...

2021

Mortgage Supply and Capital Regulation in a Low Interest Rate Environment

Luisa Lambertini

Low-for-long nominal interest rates have resulted in strong growth in mort- gage lending and real house prices in Switzerland. Domestically-oriented, small banks have mostly contributed to this expansion in mortgage lending while the two big, global system ...

2020

Fiscal Policy, Relative Prices and Net Exports in a Currency Union

Luisa Lambertini, Christian Pröbsting

This paper studies the effects of fiscal policy on net exports, the terms of trade and expenditure switching. Using data on government spending and consumption taxes for twelve euro area countries over 1996 to 2018, it shows that fiscal austerity shocks im ...

2020

Does Austerity Go Along with Internal Devaluations?

Luisa Lambertini

Cuts to government spending rather than increases in consumption taxes are statistically associated with internal devaluations in the euro area during the period 2010-2014. Countries that cut spending experienced a decline in nominal wages, rising net expo ...

2019

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

Does Austerity Go Along With Internal Devaluations?

Luisa Lambertini, Christian Pröbsting

Cuts to government spending rather than increases in consumption taxes are statistically associated with internal devaluations in the euro area during the period 2010-2014. Countries that cut spending experienced a decline in nominal wages, rising net expo ...

2019