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Essays in asset pricing
My dissertation consists of three chapters, each of which focuses on a different area of research in asset pricing. The first chapter's focal point is the measurement of the premium for jump risks in index option markets. The second chapter is devoted to non- parametric measurement of pricing kernel dispersion. The third chapter contributes to the literature on latent state variable…
Institution partenaire
English / 16/11/2017
A finder and representation system for knowledge carriers based on granular computing
In one of his publications Aristotle states ”All human beings by their nature desire to know” [Kraut 1991]. This desire is initiated the day we are born and accompanies us for the rest of our life. While at a young age our parents serve as one of the principle sources for knowledge, this changes over the course of time. Technological advances and particularly the introduction of the…
Institution partenaire
English / 07/06/2017
Four essays on fiscal decentralisation and secessions
Entre 1945 et 2008, le nombre de pays reconnus internationalement a augmenté de 74 à 193 (Spolaore, 2008). Plus récemment, plusieurs pays ont vécu une vague croissante de décentralisation. Dans les pays de l’OCDE, par exemple, le nombre de gouvernements infranationaux a atteint 140 000 en 2014. De plus, ces gouvernements infranationaux ont une influence croissante dans ces pays (OCDE…
Institution partenaire
English / 14/02/2017
Essays on variance risk
My PhD thesis consists of three papers which study the nature, structure, dynamics and price of variance risks. As tool I make use of multivariate affine jump-diffusion models with matrix-valued state spaces. The first chapter proposes a new three-factor model for index option pricing. A core feature of the model are unspanned skewness and term structure effects, i.e., it is…
Institution partenaire
English / 27/12/2016
Transfer of Human Resource Management Practices within US Multinational Companies: a 3 country case study
This thesis addresses the topic of influencing factors on the transfer of Human Resource Management (HRM) practices in Multinational Corporations (MNCs), a topic embedded in International Business (IB) and more precise in International Human Resource Management (IHRM). It builds on the debate of international dominance, transfer motives, and the different viewpoints on the triggers,…
Institution partenaire
English / 21/12/2016
ICT and gamified learning in tourism education: a case of South African secondary schools
Tourism is often introduced as a subject in formal education curricula because of the increasing and significant economic contribution of the tourism industry to the private and public sector. This is especially the case in emerging economies in Asia and Africa (Hsu, 2015; Mayaka & Akama, 2015; Cuffy et al., 2012). Tourism in South Africa – which is the geographical setting of…
Institution partenaire
English / 10/11/2016
Behavioral analyses of retailers’ ordering decisions
The main objective I pursue in this thesis is to better understand how different factors may independently and in combination influence retailers' ordering decisions under different supply chain structures (single agent and multi agent), different demand uncertainty (deterministic and stochastic), and different interaction among retailers (no interaction, competition and…
Institution partenaire
English / 18/10/2016
Les compensations tangibles comme stratégies de réparation de service:: l'influence des facteurs situationnels, des caractéristiques du client et du service: études empiriques
Institution partenaire
Français / 12/10/2016
Handling the crowd: an explorative study on the implications of prosumer-consumer communities on the value creation in the future electricity network
Institution partenaire
English / 11/10/2016
Profit theory: a new macroeconomic approach
Profit and its investment in productive activities lie at the heart of modern monetary economies. Indeed, it is thanks to profit investment that fixed capital is produced and used by companies to increase the number of consumption goods and, ultimately, to increase the wealth of households. Yet, despite economists’ full understanding of corporate gains from a microeconomic…
Institution partenaire
English / 05/10/2016
National context effects in the transfer of HRM practices from headquarters of Western MNCs to their Ukrainian subsidiaries
Institution partenaire
English / 05/10/2016
The role of authenticity constraints and geographical communities on entrepreneurship: Evidence from the Franconian beer industry 1989-2012
This dissertation focuses on the barriers that authenticity brings to entrepreneurial outcomes such as entry of new organizations, product diversification, and introduction of new products in traditional industries. Advancing theory on organizational authenticity and geographical communities, this thesis argues that authenticity is not only an asset that organizations can choose…
Institution partenaire
English / 05/09/2016
Monetary policy and crude oil: the impacts of the financial system on economic stability and environment
Institution partenaire
English / 25/08/2016
Conditioning the information in asset pricing
This thesis analyzes different theoretical and empirical aspects related to the use of the information in asset pricing. As a main innovation I extend the asset pricing literature proposing a new highly flexible technique for the estimation of the markets subjective distribution of future returns. Applying this technique to different problems I answer to some long-lasting puzzles…
Institution partenaire
English / 23/06/2016
Latent factor models for large and mixed-frequency data in finance and macroeconomics
My thesis considers new latent factor models, and their estimation methodologies, suitable for settings relatively unexplored in the econometric literature as (i) a nonlinear model for the joint dynamics of a large cross-sectional distribution of asset returns, and the persistence of the ranks of the individuals inside it; (ii) approximate linear latent factor models for large…
Institution partenaire
English / 30/03/2016
Essays on the organizational consequences of on-line behavior of audiences
Over the past 2 decades, internet use has become increasingly more a part of our every-day lives. We communicate with our friends and colleagues using the internet, we work using the internet, we also shop using the internet. We learn and increase our knowledge from information available on the internet. While on the one hand, we advance from the instant access to online contexts…
Institution partenaire
English / 08/03/2016
Female expatriates in the French speaking part of Switzerland: a focus on adjustment and work-life experiences
Institution partenaire
English / 23/02/2016
Three essays on financial economics of banking:: bank diversification, asset returns, and earnings management
Institution partenaire
English / 23/02/2016
Corporate mobility: Impacts on life domains and implications for work-life balance of international business travelers and expatriates
In my dissertation I aim to explore the impacts of work-related mobility on job, family life and personal well-being of the travelling employees. To do so, three studies have been conducted with the purpose to investigate business travel behavioral patterns and impacts of work-related mobility on various life domains of the three segments, namely frequent corporate business…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/02/2016
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