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Escaping the Prior Knowledge Corridor: What shapes the Number and Variety of Market Opportunities identified before Market Entry of Technology Start-ups?

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Christopher Trevisan

This thesis is structured in three chapters, each pertaining to a specific problem in financial economics. The first chapter, titled 'High-Frequency Jump Analysis of the Bitcoin Market' and co-authored with Prof. Olivier Scaillet and Adrien Treccani of the ...

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Modeling purchases of new cars: an analysis of the 2014 French market

Michel Bierlaire, Matthieu Marie Cochon de Lapparent, Anna Fernández Antolín

This paper analyses and compares different policy scenarios as well as discusses price elasticities and willingness to pay and to accept using revealed preference data from the French new-car market in 2014 by means of a cross-nested logit (CNL) model. We ...

2016

IP Strategy and Use Of IP Protection Mechanisms Across Firm Size: An empirical investigation

Jana Thiel, Tilo Peters

In this paper we use data from the 2012 Innovation Strategy Survey (485 responses) to compare motives and choices with respect to IP strategy in firms with sizes ranging from micro to very large. Our results confirm significant differences across firm size ...

2016

Exploiting pedestrian WiFi traces for destination choice modeling

Loïc Tinguely

My master thesis proposes a general methodology to model pedestrian destination choice from WiFi localization in multimodal transport facilities (e.g., airports, railway stations). It is based on the output of [Danalet, A., B. Farooq and M. Bierlaire (2014 ...

2015

The Cooperative model in the globalized market: the case of Azorean Agriculture Cooperatives

Joana Rodrigues Pereira

This paper aims at answering the questions when and how do cooperatives compete in the globalised world? With the goal to answer these questions, a qualitative study was conducted based on a sample of 9 consumer and producer farmer cooperatives operating i ...

2015

Runtime Prediction for Scale-Out Data Analytics

Adrian Daniel Popescu

Many analytics applications generate mixed workloads, i.e., workloads comprised of analytical tasks with different processing characteristics including data pre-processing, SQL, and iterative machine learning algorithms. Examples of such mixed workloads ca ...

EPFL2015

This study draws on strategic factor market theory and argues that acquirers' decisions regarding whether to bid for a firm reflect their expectations about employee departure from the firm post-acquisition, suggesting a negative relationship between the a ...

Wiley-Blackwell2015

Activity choice modeling for pedestrian facilities

Antonin Danalet

This thesis develops models of activity and destination choices in pedestrian facilities from WiFi traces. We adapt the activity-based travel demand analysis of urban mobility to pedestrians and to digital footprints. We are interested in understanding the ...

EPFL2015

Protecting Privacy through Distributed Computation in Multi-agent Decision Making

Boi Faltings, Thomas Léauté

As large-scale theft of data from corporate servers is becoming increasingly common, it becomes interesting to examine alternatives to the paradigm of centralizing sensitive data into large databases. Instead, one could use cryptography and distributed com ...

AI Access Foundation2013

From Minds to Markets: How Human Capital Endowments Shape Market Opportunity Identification of Technology Start-Ups

Marc Gruber, James David Thompson

The resource-based view suggests that firms' heterogeneous resource endowments are important for explaining interfirm performance differences. To date, however, the literature provides little insight on the factors that shape the identification of markets ...

Sage Publications Inc2012