Publications des institutions partenaires
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 elusive costs of sovereign defaults
Few would dispute that sovereign defaults entail significant economic costs, including, most notably, important output losses. However, most of the evidence supporting this conventional wisdom, based on annual observations, suffers from serious measurement and identification problems. To address these drawbacks, we examine the impact of default on growth by looking at quarterly data...
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
/ 12/09/2016
Capital account liberalization, financial development and industry growth: a synthetic view
This paper synthesizes previous studies analyzing the effects of capital account liberalization on industry growth while controlling for financial crises, domestic financial development and the strength of institutions. We find reasonably strong evidence that financial openness has positive effects on the growth of financially-dependent industries, although these growth-enhancing...
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
/ 09/09/2016
Eurozone crisis: it’s about demand, not competitiveness
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
/ 09/09/2016
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
Can countries rely on foreign saving for investment and economic development?
A surprisingly large number of countries have been able to finance a significant fraction of domestic investment using foreign finance for extended periods. While many of these episodes are in low-income countries where official finance is more important than private finance, this paper also identifies a number of episodes where a substantial fraction of domestic investment was...
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
English / 29/08/2016
Monetary policy and crude oil: the impacts of the financial system on economic stability and environment
Institution partenaire
English / 25/08/2016
Making the next billion demand access: the local content effect of google.co.za in Setswana
Recent attempts to connect the current ‘next billion’ to the Internet in places such as sub-Saharan Africa have not met expectations. In places where Internet infrastructure has come online and prices have gone down, the expected consequent increase in uptake was not observed. I develop a framework that incorporates language in the the two-sided markets framework, viewing differences...
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
English / 24/08/2016
Firm response to competitive shocks: evidence from Chinas minimum wage policy
The large regional variation of minimum wage changes in 2002—08 implies that Chinese manufacturing firms experienced competitive shocks as a function of firm location and their low-wage employment share. We find that minimum wage hikes accelerate the input substitution from labor to capital in low-wage firms, reduce employment growth, but also accelerate total factor productivity...
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
/ 24/08/2016
Saving China's stock market
What were the economic benefits and costs of preventing a stock market meltdown during the summer of 2015 by the Chinese government intervention? We answer this question by estimating the value creation for the stocks purchased by the government between the period starting with the market crash in mid-June and the market recovery in September. We find that the government intervention...
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
/ 24/08/2016
The IMF’s role in Greece in the context of the 2010 stand-by arrangement
In April 2010, Greece became the first euro area country to request financial support from the IMF. The IMF joined the European Commission (EC) and the European Central Bank (ECB)—thus constituting what informally came to be known as the troika—in providing emergency financing, with the Fund’s contribution taking the form of a €30 billion three-year Stand-By Arrangement (SBA)...
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
/ 23/08/2016
Brexit Beckons: thinking ahead by leading economists
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
/ 23/08/2016
Does ethnic diversity decrease economic interactions? Evidence from exchange networks in rural Gambia
Using a unique dataset collected in 59 rural Gambian villages, we study how ethnic heterogeneity is related to the structure of four economic exchange networks: land, labor, inputs and credit. We find that different measures of village-level ethnic fragmentation are mostly uncorrelated with network structure. At a more disaggregated level, household heads belonging to ethnic...
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
/ 23/08/2016
Dynamic mean preserving spreads
We extend the celebrated Rothschild and Stiglitz (1970) definition of Mean Preserving Spreads to scalar diffusion processes. We provide sufficient conditions under which a family of diffusion processes satisfies the dynamic counterparts to the famous Rothschild and Stiglitz integral conditions. We prove that the only Brownian bridge with non-constant drift that displays the Dynamic...
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
/ 23/08/2016
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
Testing for the best instrument to generate sustainable food consumption
The increase in the level of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the atmosphere in the last centuries, and the subsequent increase in temperature, has been a widely studied area in the last few decades. Climate change has become a key item on the political agenda due to concerns regarding the sustainability of current human consumption for future generations. Consumption of food and...
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
/ 15/06/2016
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