Thèse de doctorat : Université de Fribourg, 2009.
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Thèse de doctorat : Université de Fribourg, 2010.
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Thèse de doctorat : Conseil œcuménique des Églises, 2010.
Our planet Earth is going through an unprecedented crisis. The current ecological predicament is such that has the potential to annihilate life as we know it today. It is a global phenomenon that concerns every human being and even the whole creation itself. The international community and many organizations have issued persistent calls to change habits and behaviors as well as the basic...
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Thèse de doctorat : Université de Fribourg, 2007.
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Thèse de doctorat : Université de Fribourg, 2006.
The United Nations Declaration of Human Rights clearly formulates its demands universally. When it comes to the concrete application of these rights, however, the claim for universality cannot remain unquestioned. The question that is asked is whether or not human rights fit into all cultural contexts, or if they are just another aspect of western cultural imperialism. This discussion is...
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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 : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2004 ; 2004ECO002.
Corporate raiders are often associated with the 1980s takeover wave that reshaped the U.S. corporate landscape. While during the 1980s Europe remained relatively immune to this sort of investor, corporate raiders have operated actively both in Continental Europe and in the U.K. since the mid-1990s. Yet these corporate raiders are very different from the raiders that operated in the U.S. market...
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Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2002 ; 2002ECO001.
This thesis explores a way of representing the structure of the international trade system and of understanding its behaviour. Its main contribution is a model, developed following computer simulation methodology, that deals with interactions and interdependencies in international trade, and consequently, with the study of patterns of trade and trading bloc formation. The simulation model allows...
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Thèse de doctorat : Université de Fribourg : 2002.
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Thèse de doctorat : Université de Fribourg : 1999.
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