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Scenarios to collaborate with emerging markets: Initial focus India

Luca Canetta, Myrna Fatima Flores Pineda

Due to competitive pressures in the global business arena, multinational firms have started to migrate to low-cost sources of labour and materials, which are typically located in countries that also represent emerging market opportunities. In the recent ye ...

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Energy Island, Mumbaï, India

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Etendue de terre bordée d'eau, l'île est souvent source d'un imaginaire qui peut osciller entre paradis et enfer. Par ses propriétés d'éloignement et d'isolement, elle a depuis longtemps contribué au rejet de certains programmes hors des limites de la vill ...

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Regulatory Institutions and Governance Costs in the Postal Sector: The Case of Switzerland

Matthias Finger, Martin Maegli

Currently there is a strong trend toward sector-specific regulatory authorities across sectors and countries. However, liberalization has not led to a common European regulatory model. The circumstance that different old and new regulatory authorities exis ...

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A model for the design of effective and resilient supply chain security management systems

Ximena Gutiérrez Rueda

The current business environment has become more risky and variable. In particular, the recent terrorist attacks against western economies have revealed the vulnerability of global supply chains. These events showed that companies that move cargo internati ...

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Multi-agent modelling of electricity markets

Abdelaziz Lahlou

This thesis describes the development of three conceptual models built to serve as decision support tools in liberalised electricity markets. The introduction of competition, higher uncertainty and decentralised planning requires new planning and analysis ...

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Corporate control and real investment in incomplete markets

Erwan Morellec, Julien Hugonnier

In the standard real options approach to investment under uncertainty, agents formulate optimal policies under the assumptions of risk neutrality or perfect capital markets. However, in most situations, corporate executives face incomplete markets either b ...

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Agency conflicts and risk management

Erwan Morellec

This paper analyzes the relation between agency conflicts and risk management. In contrast to previous contributions, our analysis incorporates not only stockholder-debtholder conflicts but also manager – stockholder conflicts. We show that the costs of bo ...

2007

Gestion stratégique de la maintenance et de la capacité d'un réseau ferré

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The railway reforms introduced since the nineties tend to spread responsibilities among different actors involved in the management of the railway system. On the other side, the governmental organisations are forced to boost the productivity of their railw ...

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Assessing Infrastructure Vulnerability to Sudden Events

James Denman Birdsall

Over the past twenty years, numerous infrastructure management systems have been developed to address gradual failure modes. Unfortunately the management of sudden failure modes within large infrastructure systems (principally: natural hazard induced failu ...

2007

The challenges of regulating the drinking water sector: lessons from Mozambique

Matthias Finger, Patricia Alves Luis Manso

Private sector participation and liberalisation call for a greater and more efficient role for sector‐specific regulation. This necessitates a balanced and stable institutional regulatory framework to accommodate both public intervention and market dynamic ...

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