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Demystifying Rational Financial Decision-Making

Anjali Devi Vanapilli Nursimulu

Is the human brain wired for wealth? The setting is the high-velocity financial environment. Undoubtedly, the development of sophisticated derivative instruments has improved the allocation of risk across economies, highlighting the nexus between banking a ...

EPFL2011

En quête d'habitat

Marie-Paule Thomas

This doctoral thesis is based on the observation that the individualization of society that is taking place today has led to new differentiations within the domains of lifestyle and residential choice. Our main hypothesis was that lifestyle influences resi ...

EPFL2011

Practicing the world, practicing the city - Urban explorations in Beijing

Béatrice Ferrari

Since the beginning of the reforms three decades ago, Beijing has progressively become more urban and more global. With the economic reforms and the gaige kaifang (the opening of the country), the city has been steadily growing in both size and population ...

2010

Entre ville et campagne

Sophie Lufkin

Environmental, social and economic concerns linked to the sustainable development of the built-up environment are increasingly calling into question models of territorial development based on urban sprawl. This is because the process of dispersed urbanizat ...

EPFL2010

Real estate issues

Matthieu Dulguerov

This thesis discusses the difficulties of pricing real estate by using the existing financial economic theory and investigates an alternative approach in order to take into account the 'unique' nature of real estate risk. It consists of three essays placin ...

EPFL2009

The responsive approach: an integrated socially-sustainable technically-optimal decision model

James Denman Birdsall

Motivation Over the past 30 years, within the field of infrastructure management, as infrastructure systems have grown more complex, the level of managerial and financial oversight has increased, and the computation power has become less expensive and more ...

EPFL2009

Public urban transport in the context of social inclusion and cohesion – the case of Santiago de Chile

Regina Witter

What are the impacts of a re-designed public transportation system in a city where social differences are heavily manifested in spatial separation, i.e. where exist certain inequalities concerning the access to daily activities and participation in urban l ...

2007

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

Un concept de monitoring participatif au service des villes en développement

Alexandre Repetti

A collaborative monitoring concept for developing cities. Methodological approach and realization of an urban observatory. Cities in developing countries are experiencing a considerable demographic growth. This makes their development difficult to foresee ...

EPFL2004

Investment decisions with flexibility under uncertainty in the competitive electricity supply industry

Jun Dong

The restructuring of the electricity supply industry (ESI) has introduced new actors and market mechanisms. Electricity prices are more market oriented and fluctuate greatly. These changes bring about more uncertainties and risks to the market participants ...

EPFL2004