Publications related to Fair trade

Dynamic Personalized Ranking

Personalized ranking methods are at the core of many systems that learn to produce recommendations from user feedbacks. Their primary objective is to identify relevant items from very large vocabularies and to assist users in discovering new content. These ...

EPFL2022

OASE 108. Ups & Downs. Reception Histories in Architecture

Christophe van Gerrewey

What is good, less good, or bad architecture? This issue of OASE examines how shifting appreciations, for very diverse reasons, can function as a productive misunderstanding, and as a lever to advance architectural criticism and pry thinking about architec ...

nai0102021

The Politics of Participatory Sustainability Assessments: An Analysis of Power

Livia Bianca Fritz, Franziska Meinherz

The participation of societal actors has been advanced as the gold standard of sustainability assessment processes and is thought essential to dealing with the plurality of normative claims surrounding sustainability and the need to take decisions in a con ...

Cambridge University Press2020

Regional Effects of Exchange Rate Fluctuations

Christian Pröbsting

We exploit differences across U.S. states' exposure to trade to study the effects of changes in the exchange rate on economic activity. Across states, trade-weighted exchange rate depreciations are associated with increased state exports, reduced state une ...

2020

Iterative Classroom Teaching

Pierre Dillenbourg, Volkan Cevher, Thibault Lucien Christian Asselborn, Louis Pierre Faucon, Shuqing Teresa Yeo, Kamalaruban Parameswaran

We consider the machine teaching problem in a classroom-like setting wherein the teacher has to deliver the same examples to a diverse group of students. Their diversity stems from differences in their initial internal states as well as their learning rate ...

ASSOC ADVANCEMENT ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE2019

Elastic Program Transformations : Automatically Optimizing the Reliability/Performance Trade-off in Systems Software

Jonas Benedict Wagner

Performance and reliability are important yet conflicting properties of systems software. Software today often crashes, has security vulnerabilities and data loss, while many techniques that could address such issues remain unused due to performance concer ...

EPFL2017

Optimistic Causal Consistency for Geo-Replicated Key-Value Stores

Willy Zwaenepoel, Diego Didona, Kristina Spirovska

In this paper we present a new approach to implementing causal consistency in geo-replicated data stores, which we call Optimistic Causal Consistency (OCC). The optimism in our approach lies in that updates from a remote data center are immediately made vi ...

Ieee Computer Soc2017

An integrated optimization-simulation framework for vehicle and personnel relocations of electric carsharing systems with reservations

Nikolaos Geroliminis, Burak Boyaci, Konstantinos Zografos

One-way electric vehicle carsharing systems are receiving increasing attention due to their mobility, environmental, and societal benefits. One of the major issues faced by the operators of these systems is the optimization of the relocation operations of ...

Elsevier2017

Do Prices Reveal the Presence of Informed Trading?

Pierre Collin Dufresne

Using a comprehensive sample of trades from Schedule 13D filings by activist investors, we study how measures of adverse selection respond to informed trading. We find that on days when activists accumulate shares, measures of adverse selection and of stoc ...

Wiley-Blackwell2015

Trade policy: Home market effect versus terms-of-trade externality

Chiara Forlati

We study trade policy in a two-sector Krugman (1980) trade model, allowing for wage, import and export subsidies/taxes. We study non-cooperative trade policies, first for each individual instrument and then for the situation where all instruments can be se ...

Elsevier2014

Temporal dynamics of blue and green virtual water trade networks

Andrea Rinaldo

Global food security increasingly relies on the trade of food commodities. Freshwater resources are essential to agricultural production and are thus embodied in the trade of food commodities, referred to as "virtual water trade." Agricultural production p ...

American Geophysical Union2012

Corporate Environmental Strategies : Towards Supply Chain Approaches

Joana Maria Comas Marti

Stakeholders increasingly demand firms to manage their sustainability performance in a comprehensive manner. Companies are expected to surpass regulatory requirements and address sustainability issues in their extended supply chains and along the life cycl ...

EPFL2012

Transformation of Water Governance and Legitimacy : Comparing Swiss, German and English Water Supply and Sanitation Service Providers

Eva Lieberherr

The public sector in Western Europe has experienced a shift from state-centric public governance to private and public-private governance since the end of the twentieth century. Debates in the political sciences have focused on whether a „higher‟ level of ...

EPFL2012

Water for food: The global virtual water trade network

Andrea Rinaldo, Samir Suweis

We present a novel conceptual framework and methodology for studying virtual water trade. We utilize complex network theory to analyze the structure of the global virtual water trade associated with the international food trade. In the global virtual water ...

American Geophysical Union2011

Structure and Controls of the Global Virtual Water Trade Network

Andrea Rinaldo, Samir Suweis

Recurrent or ephemeral water shortages are a crucial global challenge, in particular because of their impacts on food production. The global character of this challenge is reflected in the trade among nations of virtual water, i.e. the amount of water used ...

2011

Collaborative working capital management in supply networks

Daniel Seifert

Supply chain management is widely accepted as a means for companies to gain competitive advantage. While product and information flows have been widely covered in the literature, relatively little attention has been paid to the management of a supply chain ...

EPFL2010

Co-Movements of Index Options and Futures Quotes

Rüdiger Fahlenbrach

We report evidence that the co-movements of index options and index futures quotes differ sharply from perfect correlation in periods with option trades. In half-hour intervals with (without) option trades 25% (12%) of call option quote changes have either ...

2008

Patterns of dominant flows in the world trade web

The large-scale organization of the world economies is exhibiting increasingly levels of local heterogeneity and global interdependency. Understanding the relation between local and global features calls for analytical tools able to uncover the global emer ...

Springer-Verlag2007

Modeling and validating the performance of atomic broadcast algorithms in high-latency networks

André Schiper, Nils Richard Ekwall

The performance of consensus and atomic broadcast algorithms using failure detectors is often affected by a trade-off between the number of communication steps and the number of messages needed to reach a decision. In this paper, we model the performance o ...

Springer2007

Cryptography in radio frequency identification and fair exchange protocols

Gildas Avoine

This PhD thesis focuses on fair exchange protocols and radio frequency identification protocols. Fair exchange stems from a daily life problem: how can two people exchange objects (material or immaterial) fairly, that is, without anyone being hurt in the e ...

EPFL2005