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Financial Stability and the Macroeconomy

Corinne Dubois

The financial crisis of 2007-2009 drew attention to the essential role of banks for the macroeconomy and to the importance of having a resilient financial sector. A vulnerability in the financial sector spills over to the real economy and can drive it into ...

EPFL2018

Acquirers and Financial Constraints - Theory and Evidence from Emerging Markets

How does the presence of financial constraints influence which firms become acquirers, and average ownership structures and divestiture rates of acquisitions? To address these questions, we develop a tractable model of M&As in financially underdeveloped ma ...

2018

The commodification of alternative cultural spaces

Luca Giovanni Pattaroni, Letícia Cabeçadas Do Carmo

The commodification of "alternative" cultural spaces is a process that started to take place in several European cities, like Lisbon, for instance. This has happened due to the pressure of the real estate market, tourism trends or the austerity measures im ...

2018

Can chance cause cancer? A causal consideration

Mats Julius Stensrud

The role of randomness, environment and genetics in cancer development is debated. We approach the discussion by using the potential outcomes framework for causal inference. By briefly considering the underlying assumptions, we suggest that the antagonisin ...

2017

Combining Structural and Timing Errors in Overclocked Inexact Speculative Adders

Christian Enz, Vincent Frédéric Camus, Mattia Cacciotti, Yu Jiang, Xun Jiao

Worst-case design is used in IoT devices and high performance data centers to ensure reliability, leading to a power efficiency loss. Recently, approximate computing has been proposed to trade off accuracy for efficiency. In this paper, we use Inexact Spec ...

Ieee2017

Business model for energy efficiency in manufacturing

Dimitrios Kyritsis, Gökan May

The study proposes a business model for energy efficiency and provides a tool that describes how manufacturing companies create, deliver and capture value, and at the same time evidencing the energy inefficiencies, wastes and manufacturing performances tha ...

Elsevier Science Bv2017

Credit Supply and the Macroeconomy

Abhik Mukherjee

The policy response to the recent financial crisis has broadly focused on two themes: 1) Increasing the banking sectorsâ resilience to future financial shocks: 2) Improving credit availability to households and firms via lowering both short and long-term ...

EPFL2016

A Rapid Response Thin-Film Plasmonic-Thermoelectric Light Detector

Giulia Tagliabue, Dimos Poulikakos

Light detection and quantification is fundamental to the functioning of a broad palette of technologies. While expensive avalanche photodiodes and superconducting bolometers are examples of detectors achieving single-photon sensitivity and time resolutions ...

2016

Efficiency of a highway use reservation system for morning commute

Wei Liu

This paper examines the design and efficiency of a highway use reservation system where commuters need reservations to access a highway facility at specific times. We show that, by accommodating reservation requests to the level that the highway capacity a ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2015

How Anticipated Employee Mobility Affects Acquisition Likelihood: Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Kenneth Younge

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