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Scaling up interventions to achieve global tuberculosis control: progress and new developments

Stewart Cole

Tuberculosis is still one of the most important causes of death worldwide. The 2010 Lancet tuberculosis series provided a comprehensive overview of global control efforts and challenges. In this update we review recent progress. With improved control effor ...

2012

Regulatory Uncertainty and Nonmarket Capabilities

Bastian Wolfgang Schwark

In 2005, the Economist Intelligence Unit conducted a survey with Chief Risk Officers worldwide across all industries and asked about the biggest threat to their businesses. Interestingly, regulatory risk ranked first. It dominated all other types of risk, ...

EPFL2011

Corporate investment and financing under asymmetric information

Erwan Morellec, Norman Schuerhoff

We develop a dynamic model of corporate investment and financing decisions in which corporate insiders have superior information about the firm's growth prospects. We show that firms with positive private information can credibly signal their type to outsi ...

2011

Energy Efficient Offloading of 3G Networks

Jean-Yves Le Boudec, Nikodin Ristanovic

A huge increase in the amount of data consumed by smartphone users is becoming a serious problem for mobile operators. In three years, mobile data traffic in the AT&T's network rose 5000%. The US operators invest 50 billion dollars in their data networks e ...

2011

Thermoeconomic optimization of a combined-cycle solar tower power plant

Daniel Favrat, Germain Augsburger, James Spelling

A dynamic model of a pure-solar combined-cycle power plant has been developed in order to allow determination of the thermodynamic and economic performance of the plant for a variety of operating conditions and superstructure layouts. The model was then us ...

2011

Hydrodynamic processes in sharp meander bends and their morphological implications

Koen Blanckaert

The migration rate of sharp meander bends exhibits large variance and indicates that some sharply curved bends tend to stabilize. These observations remain unexplained. This paper examines three hydrodynamic processes in sharp bends with fixed banks and di ...

2011

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

Credit Supply and Corporate Policies

Erwan Morellec

This paper develops a model of corporate investment and financing decisions that differs from previous contributions by recognizing that firms may face uncertainty regarding their future access to credit markets. We show that accounting for credit supply u ...

Swiss Finance Institute Research Paper Series2010

Interrelating Operational and Financial Performance Measurements

Ralf Seifert, Margarita Protopappa

Financial supply chain management and working capital management are increasingly receiving attention as important avenues to increase profitability in supply chains. By actively managing payment terms and working capital requirements, managers can influen ...

Elsevier2010

Interrelating operational and financial performance measurements in inventory control

Ralf Seifert, Margarita Protopappa

2010