Publications related to Regulatory agency

Essays in Banking and Financial Regulation

Susanne Johanna Petronella Léonie Vissers

This thesis examines how banks choose their optimal capital structure and cash reserves in the presence of regulatory measures. The first chapter, titled Bank Capital Structure and Tail Risk, presents a bank capital structure model in which bank assets ...

EPFL2021

Follicular regulatory helper T cells control the response of regulatory B cells to a high-cholesterol diet

Nikolaos Stergiopoulos

Aims B cell functions in the process of atherogenesis have been investigated but several aspects remain to be clarified. ...

OXFORD UNIV PRESS2021

Traceable Impedance-Based Dispensing and Cloning of Living Single Cells

Philippe Renaud, Yann Barrandon, Ariane Rochat, David Vincent Bonzon, Stéphanie Claudinot, Georges Muller

Single-cell cloning is essential in stem cell biology, cancer research, and biotechnology. Regulatory agencies now require an indisputable proof of clonality that current technologies do not readily provide. Here, we report a one-step cloning method using ...

2020

Die multiplen Rechenschaftspflichten von öffentlichen Unternehmen gegenüber dem Staat - Eine empirische Typologie der Entstehung und des Managements inkohärenter Erwartungen

Fabian Liechti

State-owned enterprises (SOEs) provide important services such as power supply, postal services and public transportation. In doing this, SOEs operate at the intersection of political/regulatory and economic expectations. Therefore, SOEs are commonly consi ...

EPFL2019

Und Aktion! Konzeptualisierung der Rolle individuellen Akteurshandelns in sozio-technischen Transitionen am Beispiel der regionalen Energiewende im bayerischen Allg\xe4u', u'And Action! \u2013 Role of Individual Agency in Socio-Technical Transitions \u2013 the Example of a Regional Energy Transition in the Allgäu Region, Bavaria']

Claudia Rebeca Binder Signer, Romano Tobias Wyss, Susan Marie Mühlemeier

Die deutsche Energiewende gilt als einer der herausforderndsten gesamtgesellschaftlichen Veränderungsprozesse unserer Zeit. Sie zieht einen grundlegenden politischen und ökonomischen Wandel in Deutschland und ganz Europa nach sich. Die fundamentalen Veränd ...

2017

Towards a sustainable development licence to operate for the extractive sector

Bruno Maria Camelo Oberle

The extractive sector now holds an even more predominant position for national economies following the adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals in 2015. The sector can make significant contributions to the achievement of a large number of these Goals. ...

Springer Heidelberg2017

Old-age provision: past, present, future

Damir Filipovic, Joël Wagner, Paul Embrechts

This is a summary of the main topics and findings from the Swiss Risk and Insurance Forum 2015. That event gathered experts from academia, insurance industry, regulatory bodies, and consulting companies to discuss the past and current developments and nece ...

Springer Heidelberg2016

Signaling and Self-regulation in Venture Capital : Evidence from Investments in the Clean Technology Sector

Giovanni Liotta

This thesis proposes three studies that provide novel empirical evidence on how different types of VCs' characteristics signal the quality of an entrepreneurial venture and influence investment strategies of funds subject to self-regulation. In the first s ...

EPFL2016

Transposable elements and their KRAB/KAP1 controllers broadly regulate transcription in adult human cells

Flavia Marzetta

KAP1 is a universal corepressor for the large family of KRAB-ZFP proteins that coordinates epigenetic silencing of endogenous retroelements (EREs) during early embryonic development. This process is essential not just to prevent replication of EREs, but al ...

EPFL2015

Evolutionary dynamics of coding and non-coding transcriptomes

Anamaria Necsulea

Gene expression changes may underlie much of phenotypic evolution. The development of high-throughput RNA sequencing protocols has opened the door to unprecedented large-scale and cross-species transcriptome comparisons by allowing accurate and sensitive a ...

Nature Publishing Group2014

Regulatory Institutions and Governance Costs : The Case of the Postal Sector

Martin Maegli

In recent decades, the European postal industry has undergone profound reforms, which aim to promote competition while simultaneously maintaining a high level of universal services for consumers. It is often put forth that market opening and the emergence ...

EPFL2012

Agency, gait and self-consciousness

Olaf Blanke, Oliver Alan Kannape

Agency is an important aspect of bodily self-consciousness, allowing us to separate own movements from those induced by the environment and to distinguish own movements from those of other agents. Unsurprisingly, theoretical frameworks for agency such as c ...

2012

Regulatory Uncertainty and Nonmarket Capabilities : An Investigation of the Electricity Generation Sector

Bastian Wolfgang Schwark

In 2005, the Economist Intelligence Unit conducted a survey with Chief Risk Officers worldwide across all industries and asked about the biggest threat to their businesses. Interestingly, regulatory risk ranked first. It dominated all other types of risk, ...

EPFL2011

Regulatory Governance Costs in Network Industries: Observations in Postal Regulation

Matthias Finger

The various actors in the regulated industries relate to each other within a broader institutional framework, i.e., by way of formal and informal rules. An important role in the implementation of liberalization processes is given to regulation and thus to ...

2010

Postal Markets and Electronic Substitution: What is the Impact of Intermodal Competition on Regulatory Practices and Institutions

Martin Maegli

This increasing convergence between postal products and telecom applications is a new phenomenon in the communications environment: Postal operators provide new services on telecom infrastructures, telecom infrastructures are likely to substitute last mile ...

2010

Postal Markets and Electronic Substitutions: What is the Impact of Intermodal Competition on Regulatory Practices and Institutions

Martin Maegli

This increasing convergence between postal products and telecom applications is a new phenomenon in the communications environment: Postal operators provide new services on telecom infrastructures, telecom infrastructures are likely to substitute last mile ...

2010

Effective Nonmarket Strategies: A Model of Political Capabilities

Bastian Wolfgang Schwark

This proposal focuses on the firms’ political capabilities as the major determinant to effectiveness of their nonmarket strategy. The term “nonmarket strategy” is relatively young and was primarily coined by Baron (1995) referring to the fact that a firm h ...

2010

Task-dependent influence of genetic architecture and mating frequency on division of labour in social insect societies

Dario Floreano, Laurent Keller

Division of labour is one of the most prominent features of social insects. The efficient allocation of individuals to different tasks requires dynamic adjustment in response to environmental perturbations. Theoretical models suggest that the colony-level ...

Springer Verlag2010

The MicroArray Quality Control (MAQC)-II study of common practices for the development and validation of microarray-based predictive models

Darlene Goldstein, Chenxu Zhao, Mauro Delorenzi, Li Zhang, Vlad Popovici, Jun Luo, Wen Luo, Wei Wang, Ying Liu, Jonathan Koh Boon Han, Li Guo, Rong Chen, Li Li, Rui Jiang, Jie Liu, Lu Meng

Gene expression data from microarrays are being applied to predict preclinical and clinical endpoints, but the reliability of these predictions has not been established. In the MAQC-II project, 36 independent teams analyzed six microarray data sets to gene ...

Nature Publishing Group2010

A self-regulatory system of interlinked signaling feedback loops controls mouse limb patterning

Felix Naef, Mirko Bischofberger

Embryogenesis depends on self-regulatory interactions between spatially separated signaling centers, but few of these are well understood. Limb development is regulated by epithelial-mesenchymal (e-m) feedback loops between sonic hedgehog (SHH) and fibrobl ...

American Association for the Advancement of Science2009