Conferences - Seminars
20NOV
By Mika KASTENHOLZ – Co-Founder
21NOV
12:00-13:30
ODY 4 03
Seminar by Prof. Ivanka Visnjic, ESADE
"Which Service? How Industry Conditions Shape Firms’ Service Type Choices" Résumé: This paper studies the role of industry conditions as determinants of manufacturing and software firms’ decisions to offer services. We draw on the competence perspective on industry evolution and servitization to theorize and provide empirical evidence on how industry conditions affect firms’ choice to ...
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22NOV
12:00-13:30
GR A3 32
Economic cycles, wealth accumulation and energy use by Prof. Robert U. Ayres
Professor Ayres will talk about an application of the theory of wealth discussed previously by Ayres and Martinas (see e.g. Ayres & Martinas 1996). His objective is to explain the “boom-bust” behavior of the economic system in a way that might be useful in the future for forecasting and policy purposes. He demonstrate a growth ...
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By We are very pleased to welcome Robert U. Ayres at ...
23NOV
10:30-12:00
Unil, Extranef building, room 126
Finance in a Time of Disruptive Growth.
We build a model in which the arrival of new technologies displaces demand for old technologies. This disruption causes redistribution due to lack of risk sharing both within and across investor cohorts. We model the financial industry as a costly device to improve risk sharing, and determine its size in equilibrium. We further study wealth ...
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By Nicolae GARLEANU, Berkeley Haas
27NOV
12:00-13:00
Unil, Extranef building, room 126
Network Effects of Monetary Policy: Evidence from Global Value Chains
This paper investigates whether monetary policy shocks propagate through production networks in the Euro-area. The network is constructed using a comprehensive time-series of input-output linkages between European industries across 11 countries and the stock market reaction is exploited as a laboratory. High-frequency interest rate data is used to identify monetary policy shocks along two dimensions: ...
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By Zornitsa TODOROVA, PhD candidate, Bocconi University
28NOV
By Geoffrey TATE (UNC, Kenan-Flager Business School)
07DEC
By Andrey GOLUBOV, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto
14DEC
By Nikolai ROUSSANOV, Wharton
14DEC
12:00-13:30
ODY 4 03
Seminar by Prof. Francesco Lissoni, Université de Bordeaux
"Return migrants' self-selection: Evidence for Indian inventors" Abstract Based on an original dataset linking patent data and biographical information for a large sample of US immigrant inventors with Indian names and surnames, specialized in ICT technologies, we investigate the rate and determinants of return migration. For each individual in the dataset, we both estimate the ...
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14DEC
16:00-17:30
ODY 4 03
Seminar by Prof. Wolfram Wiesemann, Imperial College London
"Distributionally Robust Chance Constrained Vehicle Routing" Abstract: We study a variant of the capacitated vehicle routing problem (CVRP), which asks for the cost-optimal delivery of a single product to geographically dispersed customers through a fleet of capacity-constrained vehicles. Contrary to the classical CVRP, which assumes that the customer demands are deterministic, we model the demands ...
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18JAN
By Hengjie AI, Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota
25JAN
By Marco PAGANO, University of Naples Federico II, CSEF and EIEF
01FEB
By Denis GROMB, HEC Paris
15FEB
10:30-12:00
Unil, Extranef building, room 126
Upfront Fees and Prepayment Risk in Bank Loans
We develop and test a model in which upfront fees are used to compensate lenders for the penalty-free prepayment option in bank loans. In the model, borrowers learn of their type after investing the loan, causing high-quality borrowers to prepay (or renegotiate). Raising the credit spread does not counteract this ex post erosion of loan-pool ...
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By Karin THOBURN, Norwegian School of Economics - NHH
08MAR
By José-luis PEYDRÓ, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
15MAR
By Erwan QUINTIN, Wisconsin School of Business
22MAR
By Haoxiang ZHU, MIT
29MAR
By Toni WHITED, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan
04APR
By Jessica A. WACHTER, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
12APR
By Ron KANIEL, Simon School of Business, University of Rochester
03MAY
By Neeltje van HOREN, Bank of England
10MAY
By Narayana KOCHERLAKOTA, University of Rochester
10MAY
12:00-13:30
ODY 4 03
Seminar by Prof. Myriam Mariani, Bocconi University
"Flexible-working hours and career paths: A test with LinkedIn data" Abstract : This study addresses the issue of whether the value placed by employers on employees’ temporal work flexibility contributes to the gender gap in careers paths -- as suggested by Goldin (2014). Specifically, we investigate whether firms reward disproportionately employees who are willing to ...
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Thesis defenses
21NOV
16:00
ODY -1 0019.1
IT Investment and its impacts - Does IT matter during crisis, during financing and in Innovation?
Thesis director : Prof. C. Tucci Management of technology doctoral program. Thesis 6901
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By Shameem HASAN
Miscellaneous
21NOV
18:00-20:30
Hall ELA1
PolyDoc Apero
PolyDoc organize its monthly aperos for PhD student, come and bring your friends along. For this edition, the Consulting Society at EPFL will be coming to present their activities potentially relevant for you! Looking forward to see you there in numbers
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Internal trainings
04FEB
08FEB
08FEB
08:30-19:00
PO 01
Data Science for Managers
Why take this course? The Harvard Business School calls data science the sexiest job of the 21st century, and McKinsey projects that AI could deliver an additional $13 trillion GDP to the global economy by 2030. Currently we see a revolution in data-driven business models, automation, and analysis by the fastest growing companies. Why has ...
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By Prof. Kenneth Younge, Head of the Technology and Innovation Strategy ...
Call for proposal
03DEC
[FIFTH NCCR CALL – DEADLINE FOR FULL PROPOSALS]
Aim: The National Centres of Competence in Research (NCCR) programme seeks to promote innovative, top-tier research initiatives with a long-term perspective. NCCR research projects must be of national significance and promote the sustainable development of competence centres and structural capacities at higher education institutions. To this end, NCCR leaders, in collaboration with their Home Institutions ...
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10DEC
[BRIDGE I RESEARCH FUNDING]
Aim: BRIDGE is a joint programme conducted by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) and the Commission for Technology and Innovation (CTI). It offers new funding opportunities at the intersection of basic research and science-based innovation, thereby supplementing the funding activities of the two organisations. Bridge Proof of Concept projects support young researchers (see eligibility ...
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15JAN
[ BRANCO WEISS POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS ]
The Branco Weiss Fellowship (Society in Science) is a postdoctoral program for exceptionally qualified young researchers. The fellowship consists of a personal research grant that enables the fellows to work on their projects in all disciplines, at an academic institution of their choice anywhere in the world, for up to 5 years. The fellowship is ...
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15JAN
[ EPFLinnovators I Fellowship funding ]
EPFLinnovators co-funded by Marie Skłodowska-Curie: A doctoral programme for tomorrow’s entrepreneurs EPFLinnovators is a four-year doctoral programme based in the dynamic environment of the EPFL campus, Switzerland. To develop the innovation potential of PhD students, the EPFLinnovators programme integrates a six-month to two-year secondment in the non-academic sector into the doctoral programme. Furthermore, the programme ...
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