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Has inflation targeting become less credible?: oil prices, global aggregate demand and inflation expectations during the global financial crisis

Following the onset of the global financial crisis (2008) we witness a strengthening of the correlation between crude oil prices and medium-term inflation expectations. Using the first principal component of commodity prices as a measure for global aggregate demand, we decompose oil prices into a global demand factor and idiosyncratic factors that include supply side effects and...

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English / 24/06/2019

Politique monétaire non conventionnelle: l'expérience israélienne

Au cours de la crise financière mondiale, la politique monétaire israélienne a eu recours à des mesures non conventionnelles parallèlement à des réductions énergiques du taux d’intérêt de la banque centrale. L’expérience acquise par Israël dans l’utilisation de ce type de mesures pendant la crise, leur suppression aux premiers signes de reprise et l’usage prolongé de l’une d’entre...

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English / 24/06/2019

Sunset time and the economic effects of social jetlag: evidence from US time zone borders

In: Journal of Health Economics, 2019, vol. 65, no. May, p. 210-226

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Università  della Svizzera italiana

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English / 02/05/2019

Financial constraints, institutions, and foreign ownership

We develop a model of cross-border acquisitions in which the foreign acquirer's ownership choice reflects a trade-off between easing the target's credit constraints and the costs of operating in an environment with weak institutions. Data on domestic and foreign acquisitions in emerging markets over the period 1990–2007 support the model predictions. The share of full foreign...

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English / 30/04/2019

Coming out in America: AIDS, politics, and cultural change

The last few decades witnessed a dramatic change in public opinion towards gay people. This paper uses a difference-in-difference empirical strategy to investigate the hypothesis that the AIDS epidemic and the ensuing endogenous political process led to this transformation. We show that the process of change was discontinuous over time and show suggestive evidence that the '92...

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English / 15/04/2019

The Hausmann–Gorky Effect

On May 26, 2017, Harvard economist Ricardo Hausmann published an Op Ed titled "Hunger Bonds", urging investors to avoid Venezuelan sovereign bonds on the grounds that the country was prioritizing payments on the bonds over remedying a humanitarian crisis. Contemporaneously, news emerged regarding a suspicious looking bond issue by Venezuela's oil company that was purchased largely by...

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English / 22/03/2019

A Forecasting Model for Stock Market Diversity

In: Annals of Finance, 2007, vol. 3, no. 2, p. 213-240

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Università  della Svizzera italiana

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English / 12/02/2019

The robust shortest path problem with interval data via Benders decomposition

In: 4OR, 2005, vol. 3, no. 4, p. 315-328

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Università  della Svizzera italiana

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English / 12/02/2019

Efficiency Measurement in Network Industries: Application to the Swiss Railway Companies

In: Journal of Regulatory Economics, 2005, vol. 28, no. 1, p. 69-90

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Università  della Svizzera italiana

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English / 12/02/2019

A multivariate FGD technique to improve VaR computation in equity markets

In: Computational Management Science, 2005, vol. 2, no. 2, p. 87-106

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Università  della Svizzera italiana

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English / 12/02/2019

The role of culture in long-term care arrangement decisions

In: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2017, vol. 143, p. 186-200

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Università  della Svizzera italiana

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English / 12/02/2019

Habits and rational behavior in residential electricity demand

In: Resource and Energy Economics, 2018, vol. 52, p. 137-152

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Università  della Svizzera italiana

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English / 12/02/2019

Economic outcomes of social movements

Economic outcomes have long been neglected by students of social movements. However, recently a number of studies have emerged addressing this topic. This chapter reviews works on economic outcomes of social movements. Economic impacts of social movements are defined here as pertaining to the economic sphere either in terms of government actions to regulate the economy/impose...

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Université de Genève

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English / 01/01/2019

Common market, normative power or super-state? Conflicting political identities in EU asylum and immigration policy

Drawing an analogy to the role of immigration policy in processes of state formation, this article argues that the development of common asylum/immigration policies is indicative of the normative tensions implied in the EU's transition from a regulatory polity towards a political Union. Based on an analysis of key legislative texts from the emergence of common immigration...

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Université de Genève

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English / 01/01/2019

Regional migration governance – building block of global initiatives?

migration control have proliferated all over the world and occupy an important space in recent UN initiatives to boost global cooperation on migration and refugees. Unlike Europe, where these different aspects of migration policy have come under the ambit of one institution, the European Union, regional initiatives in other parts of the world tend to emerge in different fora, with...

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Université de Genève

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English / 01/01/2019

Territory: political theory and indigenous claims. An essay on the coloniality of territory

Territory: political theory and indigenous claims. An essay on the coloniality of territory

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Université de Genève

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English / 01/01/2019

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