Publications related to Economies of scale

Fusing Pre-existing Knowledge and Machine Learning for Enhanced Building Thermal Modeling and Control

Buildings play a pivotal role in the ongoing worldwide energy transition, accounting for 30% of the global energy consumption. With traditional engineering solutions reaching their limits to tackle such large-scale problems, data-driven methods and Machine ...

EPFL2024

The Digital Ethics Canvas: A Guide For Ethical Risk Assessment And Mitigation In The Digital Domain

Patrick Jermann, Cécile Hardebolle, Vladimir Macko, Adrian Christian Holzer, Vivek Ramachandran

Ethical concerns in the digital domain are growing with the extremely fast evolution of technology and the increasing scale at which software is deployed, potentially affecting our societies globally. It is crucial that engineers evaluate more systematical ...

2023

Scale effects on efficiency and profitability in the Swiss banking sector

Andreas Fuster

This paper analyzes efficiency and profitability in the Swiss banking sector over the period 1997–2019. We find strong evidence for scale economies: for most banks in the sample, efficiency and profitability increase with bank size. Using an instrumental v ...

2022

Space allocation for multi-modal urban networks with ridesplitting services and public transport

Nikolaos Geroliminis, Lynn Fayed

The surge of Mobility on Demand (MoD) is largely attributed to advancements in mobile internet and technology. Ridesourcing platforms, among other solution services, offer convenience and flexibility when it comes to pick-up/drop-off time and location, all ...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine2022

Synthesis of high-performance polycrystalline metal-organic framework membranes at room temperature in a few minutes

Kumar Varoon Agrawal, Heng-Yu Chi, Qi Liu, Jian Hao, Deepu Joseph Babu

The development of a rapid and reproducible crystallization route for the synthesis of polycrystalline metal-organic framework (MOF) films is attractive for the scalable production of nanoporous membranes on porous supports. Prior crystallization studies h ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2020

Lifetime investment and consumption with recursive preferences and small transaction costs

Yaroslav Melnyk, Johannes Muhle-Karbe

We investigate the effects of small proportional transaction costs on lifetime consumption and portfolio choice. The extant literature has focused on agents with additive utilities. Here, we extend this analysis to the archetype of nonadditive preferences: ...

WILEY2020

Production of Algae for Biomaterials and Bioenergy: Closing the Nutrient Cycle and Enhancing the Light Utilisation Efficiency

Eya Nicodeme

Microalgae are small organisms that live in water and use solar energy or artificial light to grow. They are emerging to be one of the most promising long-term, sustainable sources of biomass for fuel, food, feed, and other high valuable co-products. Like ...

EPFL2020

Rapid inkjet printing of high catalytic activity Co3O4 /N-rGO layers for oxygen reduction reaction

Hubert Girault, Victor Costa Bassetto, Emad Oveisi, Andreas Stephan Lesch, Véronique Amstutz

The accurate and reproducible large-scale production of catalyst layers containing low-cost, abundant electrocatalysts gains in importance. Herein, pivotal factors are discussed that need to be considered when a combined inkjet printing and photonic curing ...

2018

Template-Assisted Scalable Nanowire Networks

Anna Fontcuberta i Morral, Lucas Güniat, Gözde Tütüncüoglu, Martin George Friedl, Heidi Andrea Potts, Wonjong Kim, Mahdi Zamani, Vladimir Dubrovskii, Sara Marti Sanchez

Topological qubits based on Majorana Fermions have the potential to revolutionize the emerging field of quantum computing by making information processing significantly more robust to decoherence. Nanowires are a promising medium for hosting these kinds of ...

American Chemical Society (ACS)2018

Capital goods, measured TFP and growth: The case of Spain

Luis Franjo Garcia

The effect of investing in equipment and/or structures on TFP and long run growth is investigated here. We argue that economies can grow in spite of stagnant TFP if the investment rate is inefficiently high. We study the case of Spain where real GDP per wo ...

Elsevier Science Bv2016

Rental housing and the urban poor: understanding the growth and production of rental housing in Brazilian favelas

Jean-Claude Bolay

Rental housing is increasingly becoming the key shelter option for the poor living in and moving into cities, including those living in informal settlements. The paper revisits the production of rental housing in informal settlements within the new contour ...

2016

Stability of the Classifications of Returns to Scale in Data Envelopment Analysis: A Case Study of the Set of Public Postal Operators

Matthias Finger

A significant theme in data envelopment analysis (DEA) is the stability of returns to scale (RTS) classification of specific decision making unit (DMU) which is under observed production possibility set. In this study the observed DMUs are public postal op ...

Budapest Tech2014

Capacity Scaling of Cognitive Networks: Beyond Interference-Limited Communication

Michael Christoph Gastpar

The capacity scaling laws of two overlaid networks are investigated, which are located in the same area sharing the same wireless resources with different priorities. The primary network can be regarded as an existing communication system operated in a lic ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2014

The Economics of Water Distribution in Switzerland : Cost, Efficiency and Climate Change

Anne-Kathrin Faust

This thesis analyses three distinct aspects of the economics of water distribution in Switzerland. Climate change and mounting pressure regarding the performance of network industries command an understanding of the drivers of cost and efficiency of water ...

EPFL2013

Capacity Scaling of Cognitive Networks: Beyond Interference-Limited Communication

Michael Christoph Gastpar

The capacity scaling laws of two overlaid networks sharing the same wireless resources with different priorities are investigated. The primary network is assumed to operate in an order-optimal fashion to achieve its standalone capacity scaling law. The sec ...

2013

Scale effects related to the rating curve of cylindrically crested Piano Key weirs

Anton Schleiss, Giovanni De Cesare, Michael Pfister, Elena Battisacco

Hydraulic scale effects on physical Piano Key weir (PKW) models were so far rarely discussed in literature, even though almost all prototypes are model-tested before construction. In parallel, physical weir models are generally known to include significant ...

Erpicum et al., CRC Press, Boca Raton2013

Optimizing Data-Center TCO with Scale-Out Processors

Babak Falsafi, Boris Robert Grot, Pejman Lotfi Kamran

Performance and total cost of ownership (TCO) are key optimization metrics in large-scale data centers. According to these metrics, data centers designed with conventional server processors are inefficient. Recently introduced processors based on low-power ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2012

Financial Markets Equilibrium with Heterogeneous Agents

Semyon Malamud

This paper presents an equilibrium model in a pure exchange economy when investors have three possible sources of heterogeneity. Investors may differ in their beliefs, in their level of risk aversion, and in their time preference rate. The authors study th ...

Oxford University Press2012

Optimal process design for the polygeneration of SNG, power and heat by hydrothermal gasification of waste biomass: Process optimisation for selected substrates

François Maréchal, Martin Gassner, Frédéric Vogel, Georges Heyen

Based on a previously developed thermo-economic process model, this paper presents a detailed design study for the polygeneration of Synthetic Natural Gas (SNG), power and heat by catalytic hydrothermal gasification of biomass and biomass wastes in supercr ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2011

Risky Mortgages in a DSGE Model

Luisa Lambertini, Chiara Forlati

This paper develops a DSGE model with housing, risky mortgages, and endogenous default. Housing investment is subject to idiosyncratic risk, and some mortgages are defaulted in equilibrium. An unanticipated increase in the standard deviation of housing inv ...

2011