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Variance Risk Premia in Energy Commodities

Anders Trolle

This paper investigates variance risk premia in energy commodities, particularly crude oil and natural gas, using a robust model-independent approach. Over a period of 11 years, we find that the average variance risk premia are significantly negative for b ...

2010

Dynamic investment and financing under personal taxation

Erwan Morellec, Norman Schuerhoff

This paper examines the effects of capital gains taxation on firms’ investment and financing decisions. We develop a real options model in which the timing of investment, the decision to default, and the firm’s capital structure are endogenously and jointl ...

2010

Real options valuation of fusion energy R&D programme

Edgard Gnansounou, Denis Bednyagin

This paper aims to perform a real options valuation of fusion energy R&D programme. Strategic value of thermonuclear fusion technology is estimated here based on the expected cash flows from construction and operation of fusion power plants and the real op ...

Elsevier2010

XuvTools: free, fast and reliable stitching of large 3D datasets

Alessandra Griffa

Current biomedical research increasingly requires imaging large and thick 3D structures at high resolution. Prominent examples are the tracking of fine filaments over long distances in brain slices, or the localization of gene expression or cell migration ...

2009

Influence of regulatory uncertainty on capacity investments – Are investments in new technologies a risk mitigation measure?

Bastian Wolfgang Schwark

Understanding the investment decisions of power companies is vital for a regulator as particularly deficient investments in generation capacity could jeopardize the market in the long run. Considering potential risks that could hamper investments, the pape ...

2009

e-Government 2015: exploring m-government scenarios, between ICT-driven experiments and citizen-centric implications

Gianluca Carlo Misuraca

After introducing the challenges and failures of first generation e-government (identified as e-Gov 1.0), and the rhetoric of the next generation of e-government efforts (identified as e-Gov 2.0), this paper presents an analysis of the promises of m-govern ...

2009

LCA and contaminated sites

Francesca Gambazzi

Life cycle assessment (LCA) is a tool for assessing the environmental impact of services or products. This project wants to explore the potential contribution of LCA for contaminated site management, via the comparison of several remediation strategies (ex ...

2008

Increasing user decision accuracy using suggestions

Boi Faltings, Pearl Pu Faltings, Paolo Viappiani

The internet presents people with an increasingly bewildering variety of choices. Online consumers have to rely on computerized search tools to find the most preferred option in a reasonable amount of time. Recommender systems address this problem by searc ...

Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY 10036-5701, United States2006

Unspanned stochastic volatility and fixed income derivatives pricing

Pierre Collin Dufresne

We propose a parsimonious 'unspanned stochastic volatility' model of the term structure and study its implications for fixed-income option prices. The drift and quadratic variation of the short rate are affine in three state variables (the short rate, its ...

Elsevier2005

An Option Pricing Formula for the GARCH Diffusion Model

Claudia Ravanelli, Giovanni Barone-Adesi

We derive analytically the first four conditional moments of the integrated variance implied by the GARCH diffusion process. From these moments we obtain an analytical closed-form approximation formula to price European options under the GARCH diffusion mo ...

Elsevier2005