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The effect of access charges on social welfare in the railway industry

Matthias Finger, Marc Laperrouza

This paper presents a game-theoretic model of a liberalized railway industry in which train operation and ownership of infrastructure is fully vertically separated. The objective of this paper is to analyze how the regulatory agency will socially optimal s ...

2010

Voluntary agreement of Swiss car importers

This talk presents a case study on the voluntary agreement on emissions reduction in the Swiss transport sector. Based on expert interviews, this case deals with the motivation for signing as well as the reasons for the failure of the agreement. In contras ...

2010

Corporate Finance, Asset Returns, and Credit Risk

Philip Valta

This dissertation consists of three chapters. The first chapter empirically investigates how the intensity of product market competition affects the cost of debt. Using a large sample of loans to publicly traded US manufacturing firms, the chapter provides ...

EPFL2010

Liberalization and Competition in Postal Markets: Decentralized Infrastructure versus Cherry Picking

Martin Maegli

New entrants in postal markets usually set up delivery networks by concentrating on urban areas and large business customers. This implies that they operate their network highly centralized - at least in early phases of entrance. ...

2010

Overactuated systems coordination

Yvan Michellod

The economic growth inherent to our nowadays society pushes the industries toward better performances. In the mechatronic context, the increasing competition results in more and more stringent specifications. Thus, the multiple objectives to track become h ...

EPFL2009

A Study on the Impact of Competition on Airport Congestion

Niklaus Eggenberg

Air transportation in the US is increasingly faced with the problem of airport congestion: airlines tend to over-schedule to attract market share and revenue. Unfortunately, the airlines share a limited resource - airport capacity. The underlying question ...

2009

The effect of liberalisation on incumbent's innovation

Cátia Alexandra Pereira Felisberto

The network industries have been undergoing a process of reform, where liberalisation is one of the main features. This thesis studies the effect of liberalisation, with and without competition, on the incumbent's incentives to innovate. A model of incumbe ...

EPFL2008

Important New Nodes; Gas Hubs and their Impact on Competition

Bastian Wolfgang Schwark

Although the gas market in the European Union was opened up with two major directives in 1998 and 2003, competition in Europe is still developing slowly. One major cause is the insufficient availability of gas that is not contracted by long-term contracts ...

2006

Economic Regulation in the Network Industries: where does it stand?

Patricia Alves Luis Manso, Cátia Alexandra Pereira Felisberto

The purpose of this paper is to present the different forms of economic regulation in the network industries, following the debate about restructuring these industries. The main theories on (economic) regulation of the network industries are presented and ...

2006

Competition between cue response and place response: A model of rat navigation behaviour

Wulfram Gerstner, Ricardo Andres Chavarriaga Lozano, Thomas Strösslin

Different neural systems are involved in animal navigation depending on the type of task. Experimental studies support the idea that the hippocampus is necessary to learn a spatial representation required to navigate toward hidden goals (place response), w ...

Taylor & Francis2005