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Università della Svizzera italiana

Writing in finance : improving the communicative potential of financial analysts' recommendations

Whitehouse, Marlies ; Rocci, Andrea (Dir.) ; Perrin, Daniel (Dir.)

Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2022 ; 2022COM001.

This doctoral thesis identifies and analyses problems of text production in finance from three complementary perspectives and explains why solving these problems benefits theory, practice, and society at large. Part I, Problem Identification, outlines the current situation of writing in finance, its problems and their consequences on the financial community and on society at large, entailing...

Consortium of Swiss Academic Libraries

Do Leaders Affect Ethical Conduct?

d'Adda, Giovanna ; Darai, Donja ; Pavanini, Nicola ; Weber, Roberto A.

In: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2017, vol. 15, no. 6, p. 1177-1213

Université de Fribourg

The Dangerous Ineffectiveness of Negative Interest Rates : the Case of Switzerland

Rossi, Sergio

In: Review of Keynesian Economics, 2019, vol. 7, no. 2, p. 220-232

This paper argues that the negative interest rate adopted by the Swiss National Bank in 2015 has elicited a series of negative consequences across the Swiss economy. It has led an increasing number of agents to invest their savings in the real-estate market, whose prices have overheated, threatening the eruption of a housing crisis. It has also induced a number of financial institutions to turn...

Haute école de gestion de Genève

Le quasi-monopole de la Chine sur le marché des terres rares et ses conséquences sur les relations commerciales et financières avec les États-Unis.

Ferreira Da Costa, Fabio ; Massonnet, Jonathan (Dir.)

Mémoire de bachelor : Haute école de gestion de Genève, 2020 ; TDEE 408.

Les terres rares sont un ensemble de métaux dont leurs propriétés chimiques permettent de produire des biens de haute technologie. Nous les retrouvons dans une multitude de produits tels que les smartphones, écrans, ordinateurs portables, voitures électriques et éoliennes. Nous devons à ces métaux les progrès technologiques que nous connaissons aujourd’hui. Cependant, leur production...

Haute école de gestion de Genève

Do socially responsible investments outperform conventional ones ?

Schaub, Laurent-Xavier ; Ruiz, Frédéric (Dir.)

Mémoire de bachelor : Haute école de gestion de Genève, 2020 ; TDIBM 87.

The literature has seen a growing number of studies addressing the topic of sustainable finance, while firms also seem to be keener on undertaking and advertising societal actions. The role firms play in society has been evolving, especially due to the rising demand for corporate social responsibilities. The question that recurrently arises is whether being socially responsible will allow...

Haute école de gestion de Genève

Socially Responsible Investing (SRI) : the case of Geneva ; from a boardwalk to building bridges

Thullen, Marie ; Khan, Aftab (Dir.)

Mémoire de bachelor : Haute école de gestion de Genève, 2020 ; TDIBM 91.

The Swiss sustainable investments market has evolved impressively over 10 years, growing from CHF 20.3 billion in 2008 to CHF 716.6 billion in 2018 and more specifically since 2015 when the first asset owners were identified. Geneva is a strong and well known financial centre considered as the 9th leading centre for finance. Sustainable finance represents a real opportunity for both Swiss...

Haute école de gestion de Genève

Commodity trading firms and Islamic structured trade finance : a contribution to attaining UN’s SDGs

Nagi, Walid Hassan ; Aubert, François E. (Dir.)

Mémoire de bachelor : Haute école de gestion de Genève, 2020 ; TDIBM 106.

Over the past decade, some commodity trading firms have increasingly replaced banks in performing financial intermediation across their value chains. Since this role has primarily been fulfilled using prepayment facilities, these financing schemes act as a benchmark to gauge their lending practices. In some countries and commodity markets, prepayment facilities now act as the most readily...