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International Portfolio Choice with Frictions: Evidence from Mutual Funds
Using data on international equity portfolio allocations by U.S. mutual funds, we estimate a portfolio expression derived from a standard mean-variance portfolio model extended with portfolio frictions. The optimal portfolio depends on the previous month a ...
OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC2023Mutual information in changing environments: Nonlinear interactions, out-of-equilibrium systems, and continuously varying diffusivities
Daniel Maria Busiello, Giorgio Nicoletti
Biochemistry, ecology, and neuroscience are examples of prominent fields aiming at describing interacting systems that exhibit nontrivial couplings to complex, ever-changing environments. We have recently shown that linear interactions and a switching envi ...
AMER PHYSICAL SOC2022Swiss Negative Emissions Fund - paying for Net Zero
We propose setting up a public polluter-financed fund to pay for the removal of all Swiss territorial GHG (greenhouse gas) emissions from 2030. The fund will accelerate decarbonization and help reach annual net zero emissions around 2040, and then progress ...
2022Action levers for wellbeing with low energy demand
Why focus on action levers? • Wellbeing with low energy demand is clearly defined in low energy scenarios like LED or DLS, but it is far from obvious how to get there, including even collectively deciding on what is a good transition. • Progressively chang ...
2022Empirical Evidence on the Effectiveness of Shareholder Democracy
This thesis is composed of two essays that study the effectiveness of shareholder democracy.
In the first essay, I analyze the firm value implications of shareholder-initiated proposals. I show that managerial resistance precludes half of shareholder-init ...
EPFL2021I Am What I Pledge: The Importance of Value Alignment for Mobilizing Backers in Reward-Based Crowdfunding
Crowdfunding has emerged as an important alternative financing tool for entrepreneurs. Extant research on the antecedents of crowdfunding success have produced divergent results. By applying the cross-disciplinary lens of strategic linguistic framing, that ...
2020Financing Biomedical Ventures - Myths and Realities
Angel funding is an important source of capital for startup ventures (J. Sohl 2019), providing a similar level of capital as institutional venture capital (OECD 2011). But angel funding is challenging to study due to the informal nature of the activity. A ...
EPFL2020The important thing is not to win, it is to take part: What if scientists benefit from participating in research grant competitions?
Fabiana Visentin, Charles Chadi Ayoubi, Michele Pezzoni
“The important thing is not to win, it is to take part,” this famous saying by Pierre de Coubertin asserts that the value athletes draw from Olympic games lies in their participation in the event and not in the gold they collect during it. We find similar ...
2019Navigating the Funding Landscape in Europe: Innovative Training Network FINESSE
The funding landscape in Europe is complex and potentially overwhelming with a multitude of pan-European and national funding mechanisms available. This session explores some of the options available to those seeking funds and suggests strategies for navig ...
2018Analysing the Role of Social Visits on Migrants’ Social Capital: A Personal Network Approach
Emmanuel Pierre Jean Ravalet, Gil Viry
There are concerns that migrants may be embedded in far-flung networks with support being less collective. The spatial dispersion of their relatives and friends would result in fragmented networks with lower solidarity and lower mutual trust than densely c ...
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