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District heating and cooling systems to integrate renewable energy in urban areas

Francesca Belfiore

The building sector plays a crucial role in the ongoing energy transition due to its significant share of global energy consumption and carbon dioxide emissions, especially when combined with the estimation that 70% of the world's population will be living ...

EPFL2021

The Distortion of Distributed Voting

Aris Filos Ratsikas

Voting can abstractly model any decision-making scenario and as such it has been extensively studied over the decades. Recently, the related literature has focused on quantifying the impact of utilizing only limited information in the voting process on the ...

SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING AG2019

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

Does Austerity Go Along with Internal Devaluations?

Luisa Lambertini

2019

Alternative Methods for Assessing Air Quality and Energy Strategies for Developing Countries: A Case Study on Cuba

Jessie Madrazo Bacallao

The worldwide increasing energy consumption is mainly based on fossil fuel which leads to a large number of environmental problems. Indeed, the combustion of fossil fuels releases into the atmosphere different greenhouse gases and harmful pollutants which ...

EPFL2018

On the Assessment of the CO2 Mitigation Potential of Woody Biomass

François Maréchal, François Richard Vuille, Emanuela Peduzzi, Victor Codina Gironès

Woody biomass, a renewable energy resource, accumulates solar energy in form of carbon hydrates produced from atmospheric CO2 and H2O. It is, therefore, a means of CO2 mitigation for society as long as the biogenic carbon released to the atmosphere when de ...

2018

Tracking and Stress-Testing U.S. Household Leverage

Andreas Fuster

Housing equity is an important component of borrowers’ wealth and a critical determinant of their vulnerability to shocks. In this article, the authors use a unique, newly created data set to analyze the evolution of household leverage—defined here as the ...

2018

Feasibility study of a CO2-based system in NEST

François Maréchal, Luc Girardin, Raluca-Ancuta Suciu

The NEST building laboratory of Empa and Eawag is a modular research and innovation demonstrator where new technologies, materials and systems are tested, researched, honed and validated in realistic conditions. In the NEST concept, only the supporting str ...

Industrial Process and Energy Systems Engineering Group, EPFL Valais Wallis2017

Renewable energy for the mining industry: trends and developments

Renewable energy (RE) for the mining industry has perspectives for an implementation and development confirms by the case studies from the mining countries. The European Union focuses on increasing of the capacity of RE generation and consumption according ...

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Uniqueness of equilibrium in a payment system with liquidation costs

Damir Filipovic, Léo Hamed Amini

We study a financial network where forced liquidations of an illiquid asset have a negative impact on its price, thus reinforcing network contagion. We give conditions for uniqueness of the clearing asset price and liability payments. Our main result holds ...

Elsevier Science Bv2016