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Discovering Lobby-Parliamentarian Alignments through NLP

Matthias Grossglauser, Victor Kristof, Aswin Suresh

We discover alignments of views between interest groups (lobbies) and members of the European Parliament (MEPs) by automatically analyzing their texts. Specifically, we do so by collecting novel datasets of lobbies’ position papers and MEPs’ speeches, and ...

2024

Echoing Swiss Coloniality. Land, Archive and Visuality between Brazil and Switzerland

Denise Bertschi

Informed by longstanding artistic practice, this doctoral thesis approaches entanglements of Swiss coloniality in Brazil and Switzerland under the lens of land, archive, and visuality. The enduring legacies of imperial capitalism in the former Colonia Leop ...

EPFL2024

Demand-based Asset Pricing: Theory, Estimation and Applications

Philippe van der Beck

This thesis investigates the relationship between investors' demand shocks and asset prices through the use of data on portfolio holdings. In three chapters, I study the theory, estimation, and application of demand-based asset pricing models, which incorp ...

EPFL2023

Risk governance and the low-carbon transition

Marie-Valentine Renée Agnès Florin

This IRGC policy brief focuses on the risks associated with the transition to a low-carbon society and economy. It is based on a multi-stakeholder expert workshop held in September 2020. It incorporates views and insights from academia, industry, non-gover ...

EPFL International Risk Governance Center2021

Institutions and Incentives in Knowledge Production and Diffusion: From Science to Innovation

Charles Chadi Ayoubi

This thesis presents four essays providing novel empirical and theoretical insights on the incentives and institutional structures that favor knowledge production and diffusion. The first two studies analyze these processes in the realm of scientific resea ...

EPFL2020

Metropolitan Innovation Systems: Inquiry into the co-evolving relations between Industry, University and Government

Jiayun Shen

Innovation is crucial and decisive for the long-term development of a metropolitan region in the global economy. While firms certainly play a significant role in the development of specific innovation, the environment that nur-tures innovative firms and di ...

EPFL2020

The institutional challenges of scaling-up housing retrofit: the Swiss cities of Basel and Sion

Eghbal Arian Mahzouni

Purpose This paper aims to discuss the nexus between two societal (sub) systems of housing and energy supply to shed new light on the key institutional barriers to socio-technical energy transition in the built environment. The key research question is to ...

EMERALD GROUP PUBLISHING LTD2019

Innovation capacity of the agricultural sector: network of productive interactions, knowledge transfer and differentiation mechanisms

Camille Marguerite Aouinait

Economic growth is increasingly explained and driven by knowledge acquisition and firmsâ capabilities to adapt to new evolving situations to fit economic, societal and environmental frames. Strategic behavior of private companies in differentiating and p ...

EPFL2019

Testing Analytical Frameworks in Transdisciplinary Research for Sustainable Development

Jean-Claude Bolay, Gabriela Tejada Guerrero, Silvia Hostettler, Clémence Noëlie Marie Ranquet Bouleau, Marina Cracco

This article discusses the concept and the practice of transdisciplinary research, including how it is conceived and implemented through the cooperation of different actors involved. With transdisciplinarity gaining recognition as an approach to addressing ...

2019

The geographic evolution of political cleavages in Switzerland: A network approach to assessing levels and dynamics of polarization between local populations

Shin Alexandre Koseki

Scholarly studies and common accounts of national politics enjoy pointing out the resilience of ideological divides among populations. Building on the image of political cleavages and geographic polarization, the regionalization of politics has become a tr ...

2018

Towards the implementation of a safety education program in a teaching and research institution

Thierry Meyer

Education is a continuing process for improving the level of knowledge including the pro-cess of learning and acquiring information. It is widely believed that constant exposure tonew ideas and skills makes people better workers, thinkers, and societal con ...

Elsevier Sci Ltd2017

Coming Full Circle Why Social and Institutional Dimensions Matter for the Circular Economy

Vincent Moreau, François Richard Vuille

In light of the environmental consequences of linear production and consumption processes, the circular economy (CE) is gaining momentum as a concept and practice, promoting closed material cycles by focusing on multiple strategies from material recycling ...

Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press2017

Dépasser les bornes : mise en oeuvre de projets d'urbanisation supracommunaux dans les agglomérations urbaines

Marc Antoine Messer

Urban areas across Europe are constantly expanding under the pressure of demographics and of ever-increasing mobility. Meanwhile, the institutional boundaries of the various communities that make up these urban areas remain remarkably stable. The resulting ...

EPFL2017

Ambiguïtés de la « ville créative » : néolibéralisation, condition urbaine et puissances politiques de l'art

Mischa-Sébastien Piraud

Art and culture have a renewed role in the contemporary city. Theories relative to the creative class, the creative economy and the creative city are both descriptive and prescriptive; they focus on the role of culture in the urban production process and, ...

EPFL2017

Agile, Versatile, and Comprehensive Social Media Platform for Creating, Sharing, Exploiting, and Archiving Personal Learning Spaces, Artifacts, and Traces

Denis Gillet, Maria Jesus Rodriguez Triana, Adrian Christian Holzer, Andrii Vozniuk

Nowadays, students bring their full ecosystem of social media platforms and their own devices to school, while teachers benefit from and contribute to local or global repositories of educational resources. As a consequence, educational institutions have to ...

2016

Explaining the diversity of motivations behind community renewable energy

Thomas Jean F Bauwens

Community-based renewable energy initiatives may be important actors in the transition toward low-carbon energy systems. In turn, stimulating investments in renewable energy production at the community level requires a better understanding of investors' mo ...

Elsevier2016

Institutions, Innovation and Public Health

Viviana Carolina Munoz Tellez de Kieffer

This study concerns the economics of innovation in the area of medical innovation -new diagnostics, medicines and vaccines-, and in particular how innovation contributes to meeting public health needs. Significant advances have taken place in medical scien ...

EPFL2015

Smart Microgrids as a Solution for Rural Electrification: Ensuring Long-Term Sustainability Through Cadastre and Business Models

Lorenzo Enrique Reyes Chamorro

The provision of energy at the local level by using renewable and local resources is increasingly acknowledged as a techno-economic solution for rural electrification. This work describes an approach for implementing microgrid projects at the institutional ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2014