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Essays in empirical finance

Garzoli, Matteo ; Plazzi, Alberto (Dir.)

Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2021 ; 2021ECO007.

I use empirical methods to forecast U.S. repeat-sales house price indices, to analyze Swiss long-run default rates and to investigate the role of country and industry effects on the downside risk of stock index returns.

Thoughts on Twin Earth

Jacquette, Dale

In: Metaphysica, 2017, vol. 18, no. 1, p. 33-59

Essays on the economics of decision making

Nassar, Anis ; Buechel, Berno (Dir.)

Thèse de doctorat : Université de Fribourg, 2021.

Essays on Swiss Accident Insurance

Berisha, Driton ; Huber, Martin (Dir.)

Thèse de doctorat : Université de Fribourg, 2021.

Essays in institutional investors, market efficiency and the real economy

Tubaldi, Roberto ; Frésard, Laurent (Dir.)

Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2021 ; 2021ECO004.

My dissertation consists of three chapters, each of which focuses on how institutional investors trade, impact price efficiency in secondary financial markets and influence the allocation of resources in the real economy. Using a novel approach based on hurricanes, the first chapter, Mutual Funds’ Fire Sales and the Real Economy: Evidence from Hurricanes, contributes to the recent debate on...

Essays in institutional investors and financial markets

Cötelioglu, Efe ; Plazzi, Alberto (Dir.)

Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2021 ; 2021ECO002.

I use empirical methods to study the effect of institutional investors on financial markets. My studies provide novel evidence on the commonality in liquidity of fixed-income securities, the liquidity provision of hedge funds and mutual funds in equity markets, and the information diffusion from credit default swaps to equities.

Mind the Gap : An Experimental Evaluation of Imputation of Missing Values Techniques in Time Series

Khayati, Mourad ; Lerner, Alberto ; Tymchenko, Zakhar ; Cudré-Mauroux, Philippe

In: Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment, 2020, vol. 13, no. 5, p. 768-782

Recording sensor data is seldom a perfect process. Failures in power, communication or storage can leave occasional blocks of data missing, affecting not only real-time monitoring but also compromising the quality of near- and off-line data analysis. Several recovery (imputation) algorithms have been proposed to replace missing blocks. Unfortunately, little is known about their relative...

Mindfulness & ultra-endurance : Impact d’une préparation mentale par mindfulness sur la pleine conscience pour des sportifs pratiquant l’ultra-endurance

Germanier, Mathilde ; Bresciani, Jean-Pierre (Dir.) ; Piffaretti, Mattia (Codir.)

Mémoire de master : Université de Fribourg, 2020.

Multi-Brand Loyalty: Three Essays on the concept and its impact on loyalty strategies effectiveness : Focus on FMCG retail sector

Arifine, Ghizlane ; Furrer, Olivier (Dir.)

Thèse de doctorat : Université de Fribourg, 2020.

Availability - analysis of an effective pro-social attitude and application to the medical field

Malbois, Elodie ; Soldati, Gianfranco (Dir.)

Thèse de doctorat : Université de Fribourg, 2020.

Short Abstract Sympathy is often considered to be a pro-attitude central to our social lives. I argue, however, that it is epistemically weak and thereby not effective on its own. We are in need of another attitude that combines the motivational aspect of sympathy with a more cognitive component that enables us to understand others. In this thesis, I argue that availability, a concept ...