Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2004 ; 2004ECO006.
Where prices are missing as an indicator of value, economic non-market valuation represents an important tool for efficient and transparent decision-making. Given that environmental goods and services are often priceless, environmental economists have a long history of applying valuation tools. Two prominent valuation approaches are the Contingent Valuation Method (CVM) and the Travel Cost Method...
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Thèse de doctorat : Université de Fribourg, 2005.
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Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2003 ; 2003ECO002.
The developments of financial theory in the last decades have shown that one of the most fundamental topics in Finance is the specification of dependence between different risk variables. Empirical evidence on financial time series (such as returns, interest rates, or exchange rates) as well as recent developments in risk management (such as the analysis of dependence between default risks of...
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Thèse de doctorat : Université de Fribourg, 2005.
This thesis focuses on two themes: a methodological and a decision making one. The methodological part introduces the development of a computerized information search tool. The program, called WebDiP (Web Decision Processes), enables the researcher to track participants while they are searching for information in a database. An experiment can be done either in the laboratory or on the Web. The...
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Thèse de doctorat : Université de Fribourg, 2001.
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Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2004 ; 2004COM003.
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Thèse de doctorat : Université de Fribourg, 2005.
Prenant appui sur un large corpus d'articles de presse, de discours politiques, d'enquêtes historiques et de témoignages, cette thèse étudie l'émergence, le développement et le dénouement de la controverse dite «des fonds juifs et de l'or nazi» qui a animé l'espace public suisse entre 1995 et 1998. L'enquête commence par retracer comment, plus de cinquante ans après les faits, le...
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Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2004 ; 2004ECO005.
In the first part of this work we address the problem of parameter misspecification in a generic class of stochastic volatility models. We extend the approach proposed by Avellaneda, Levy and Paràs (1995) (hereafter ALP) by moving from a framework with uncertain volatility to the uncertainty on volatility process parameters. We assume that parameter values of the stochastic volatility model are...
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Thèse de doctorat : Université de Fribourg, 1999 ; no 1256.
The factors influencing the production and deposition of carbonate sediments are known. These are namely accommodation variations (eustasy and tectonics), siliciclastic sediment input, environmental changes (temperature, salinity, trophic level), nature of the producing ecologies, and the hydrodynamic regime. However, the manner in which these factors integrate through time to produce the...
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Thèse de doctorat : Université de Fribourg, 2003 ; no 1416.
La partie distale du Bassin molassique, classique bassin d’avant-pays, constitue le lieu de préservation de la Molasse du Jura. Cette série sédimentaire a pu recouvrir durant l’Oligo-Miocène une grande partie de la chaîne du Jura actuelle. Aujourd’hui on ne la retrouve que sporadiquement piégée dans les vallées synclinales ou préservée dans des remplissages karstiques. La litho-...
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