MTEI Publications

2024

Journal Articles

Frequency Regulation with Storage: On Losses and Profits

D. Lauinger; F. Vuille; D. Kuhn 

European Journal of Operational Research. 2024. Vol. 319, num. 2, p. 442 – 455. DOI : 10.1016/j.ejor.2024.03.022.

Minimum-Cost Ordering for Selective Assembly

T. A. Weber 

IISE Transactions. 2024.  p. 1 – 15. DOI : 10.1080/24725854.2024.2347918.

MOBILIZING NEW SOURCES OF DATA: OPPORTUNITIES AND RECOMMENDATIONS

D. A. Gregoire; A. L. J. Ter Wal; L. M. Little; S. Bermiss; R. Kotha et al. 

Academy Of Management Journal. 2024. Vol. 67, num. 2, p. 289 – 298. DOI : 10.5465/amj.2024.4002.

HOW FOUNDER HUMAN CAPITAL AND FOUNDING CONDITIONS SHAPE NEW FIRM PERFORMANCE: A STUDY OF NECESSITY ENTREPRENEURSHIP DURING TIMES OF ECONOMIC CRISIS

M. Gruber; J. C. Dencker; A. (. Nikiforou 

Academy Of Management Journal. 2024. Vol. 67, num. 2, p. 382 – 406. DOI : 10.5465/amj.2022.0405.

Energy Management of Price-Maker Community Energy Storage by Stochastic Dynamic Programming

L. Deng; X. Zhang; T. Yang; H. Sun; Y. Fu et al. 

Csee Journal Of Power And Energy Systems. 2024. Vol. 10, num. 2, p. 492 – 503. DOI : 10.17775/CSEEJPES.2023.02720.

EXPANDING AMJ’S MANUSCRIPT PORTFOLIO: RESEARCH METHODS ARTICLES DESIGNED TO ADVANCE THEORY AND SPAN BOUNDARIES

M. Gruber; P. Bliese 

Academy Of Management Journal. 2024. Vol. 67, num. 1, p. 1 – 4. DOI : 10.5465/amj.2024.4001.

The spatial and economic footprint of the coal industry on rural livelihoods in Jharkhand, India

S. Pelz; A. Krumm; M. Aklin; V. Nandan; J. Urpelainen 

Energy Policy. 2024. Vol. 186, p. 113973. DOI : 10.1016/j.enpol.2023.113973.

A Pareto Dominance Principle for Data-Driven Optimization

T. Sutter; B. Van Parys; D. Kuhn 

Operations Research. 2024. Vol. 72, num. 5, p. 1751 – 2261. DOI : 10.1287/opre.2021.0609.

Equity ownership and identification with the founding team

E. Weissenböck; N. Breugst; H. Patzelt; R. Dibbern 

Applied Psychology-An International Review-Psychologie Appliquee-Revue Internationale. 2024. DOI : 10.1111/apps.12515.

Small Errors in Random Zeroth-Order Optimization are Imaginary

W. Jongeneel; M-C. Yue; D. Kuhn 

SIAM Journal on Optimization. 2024. Vol. 34, num. 3, p. 2638 – 2670. DOI : 10.1137/22M1510261.

A Planner-Trader Decomposition for Multi-Market Hydro Scheduling

K. Schindler; N. Rujeerapaiboon; D. Kuhn; W. Wiesemann 

Operations Research. 2024. Vol. 72, num. 1, p. 185 – 202. DOI : 10.1287/opre.2023.2456.

Regret Minimization and Separation in Multi-Bidder Multi-Item Auctions

C. Kocyigit; D. Kuhn; N. Rujeerapaiboon 

INFORMS Journal on Computing. 2024. DOI : 10.1287/ijoc.2022.0275.

Data-Driven Chance Constrained Programs over Wasserstein Balls

Z. Chen; D. Kuhn; W. Wiesemann 

Operations Research. 2024. Vol. 72, num. 1, p. 410 – 424. DOI : 10.1287/opre.2022.2330.

Reliable Frequency Regulation through Vehicle-to-Grid: Encoding Legislation with Robust Constraints

D. Lauinger; F. Vuille; D. Kuhn 

Manufacturing & Service Operations Management. 2024. Vol. 26, num. 2, p. 722 – 738. DOI : 10.1287/msom.2022.0154.

Monopoly Pricing with Unknown Demand

T. A. Weber 

Scandinavian Journal of Economics. 2024. DOI : 10.1111/sjoe.12564.

Conference Papers

A Cross-Moment Approach for Causal Effect Estimation

Y. Kivva; S. Salehkaleybar; N. Kiyavash 

2024. 37th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2023), New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, 2023-12-10 – 2023-12-16.

Optimal Depth of Discharge for Electric Batteries with Robust Capacity-Shrinkage Estimator

T. A. Weber 

2024. 2024 4th International Conference on Smart Grid and Renewable Energy (SGRE), Doha, Qatar, January 8-10, 2024. DOI : 10.1109/SGRE59715.2024.10428801.

A Large Deviations Perspective on Policy Gradient Algorithms

W. Jongeneel; D. Kuhn; M. Li 

2024. 6th Annual Learning for Dynamics & Control Conference, Oxford, UK, 2024-07-15 – 2024-07-17.

Theses

Reliable data-driven decision-making through optimal transport

B. Taskesen / D. Kuhn (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2024. 

Stability: a search for structure

W. Jongeneel / D. Kuhn (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2024. 

Working Papers

Wasserstein Distributionally Robust Optimization with Heterogeneous Data Sources

Y. Rychener; A. Esteban-Perez; J. M. Morales; D. Kuhn 

2024

A Geometric Unification of Distributionally Robust Covariance Estimators: Shrinking the Spectrum by Inflating the Ambiguity Set

M-C. Yue; Y. Rychener; D. Kuhn; V. A. Nguyen 

2024

2023

Journal Articles

The effects of war on Ukrainian research

G. de Rassenfosse; T. Murovana; W-H. P. Uhlbach 

Humanities & Social Sciences Communications. 2023. Vol. 10, num. 1, p. 856. DOI : 10.1057/s41599-023-02346-x.

A Unified Experiment Design Approach for Cyclic and Acyclic Causal Models

E. Mokhtarian; S. Salehkaleybar; A. Ghassami; N. Kiyavash 

Journal Of Machine Learning Research. 2023. Vol. 24, num. 118, p. 354.

FROM SCARCITY TO ABUNDANCE: SCHOLARS AND SCHOLARSHIP IN AN AGE OF GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

M. Grimes; G. von Krogh; S. Feuerriegel; F. Rink; M. Gruber 

Academy Of Management Journal. 2023. Vol. 66, num. 6, p. 1617 – 1624. DOI : 10.5465/amj.2023.4006.

International mobility of inventors and innovation: Empirical evidence from the collapse of the Soviet Union

G. de Rassenfosse; G. Pellegrino 

Economics Letters. 2023. Vol. 234, p. 111450. DOI : 10.1016/j.econlet.2023.111450.

POSITIONING RESEARCH ON NOVEL PHENOMENA: THE WINDING ROAD FROM PERIPHERY TO CORE

J. C. Dencker; M. Gruber; T. Miller; E. D. Rouse; G. von Krogh 

Academy Of Management Journal. 2023. Vol. 66, num. 5, p. 1295 – 1302. DOI : 10.5465/amj.2023.4005.

Opening Up Amj’S Research Methods Repertoire

A. Langley; E. Bell; P. Bliese; C. LeBaron; M. Gruber 

Academy Of Management Journal. 2023. Vol. 66, num. 3, p. 711 – 719. DOI : 10.5465/amj.2023.4003.

Price Discrimination with Robust Beliefs

J. Han; T. A. Weber 

European Journal of Operational Research. 2023. Vol. 306, num. 2, p. 795 – 809. DOI : 10.1016/j.ejor.2022.08.022.

Is The Patent System An Even Playing Field? The Effect Of Patent Attorney Firms

G. De Rassenfosse; P. H. Jensen; T. Julius; A. Palangkaraya; E. Webster 

Journal Of Industrial Economics. 2023. Vol. 71, num. 1, p. 124 – 142. DOI : 10.1111/joie.12319.

Recognizing And Utilizing Novel Research Opportunities With Artificial Intelligence

G. von Krogh; Q. Roberson; M. Gruber 

Academy Of Management Journal. 2023. Vol. 66, num. 2, p. 367 – 373. DOI : 10.5465/amj.2023.4002.

Do patent pledges accelerate innovation?

G. de Rassenfosse; A. Palangkaraya 

Research Policy. 2023. Vol. 52, num. 5, p. 104745. DOI : 10.1016/j.respol.2023.104745.

Maneuvering the odds: The dynamics of venture capital decision-making

J. S. S. Petty; M. Gruber; D. Harhoff 

Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal. 2023. DOI : 10.1002/sej.1455.

An Innovative Journal During Transformational Times: Embarking On The 23Rd Editorial Term

M. Gruber 

Academy Of Management Journal. 2023. Vol. 66, num. 1, p. 1 – 8. DOI : 10.5465/amj.2023.4001.

Utilizing additive manufacturing and mass customization under capacity constraints

R. Lacroix; A. Timonina-Farkas; R. W. Seifert 

Journal Of Intelligent Manufacturing. 2023. DOI : 10.1007/s10845-022-02007-x.

Information Retrieval Under Network Uncertainty: Robust Internet Ranking

A. Timonina-Farkas; R. W. Seifert 

Operations Research. 2023. Vol. Vol. 71(6), p. 2328 – 2351. DOI : 10.1287/opre.2022.2298.

Assortment optimization using an attraction model in an omnichannel environment

A. Vasilyev; S. Maier; R. W. Seifert 

European Journal Of Operational Research. 2023. Vol. 306, num. 1, p. 207 – 226. DOI : 10.1016/j.ejor.2022.08.002.

Examining Open Innovation in Science (OIS): what Open Innovation can and cannot offer the science of science

S. Beck; M. LaFlamme; C. Bergenholtz; M. Bogers; T-M. Brasseur et al. 

Innovation-Organization & Management. 2023. Vol. 25, num. 3, p. 221 – 235. DOI : 10.1080/14479338.2021.1999248.

Bridging Bayesian and Minimax Mean Square Error Estimation via Wasserstein Distributionally Robust Optimization

V. A. Nguyen; S. Shafieezadeh Abadeh; D. Kuhn; P. Mohajerin Esfahani 

Mathematics of Operations Research. 2023. Vol. 48, num. 1, p. 1 – 37. DOI : 10.1287/moor.2021.1176.

On Approximations of Data-Driven Chance Constrained Programs over Wasserstein Balls

Z. Chen; D. Kuhn; W. Wiesemann 

Operations Research Letters. 2023. Vol. 51, num. 3, p. 226 – 233. DOI : 10.1016/j.orl.2023.02.008.

Discrete Optimal Transport with Independent Marginals is #P-Hard

B. Taskesen; S. Shafieezadeh Abadeh; D. Kuhn; K. Natarajan 

SIAM Journal on Optimization. 2023. Vol. 33, num. 2, p. 589 – 614. DOI : 10.1137/22M1482044.

Semi-Discrete Optimal Transport: Hardness, Regularization and Numerical Solution

B. Taskesen; S. Shafieezadeh Abadeh; D. Kuhn 

Mathematical Programming. 2023. Vol. 199, p. 1033 – 1106. DOI : 10.1007/s10107-022-01856-x.

A Unified Theory of Robust and Distributionally Robust Optimization via the Primal-Worst-Equals-Dual-Best Principle

J. Zhen; D. Kuhn; W. Wiesemann 

Operations Research. 2023. DOI : 10.1287/opre.2021.0268.

Efficient Learning of a Linear Dynamical System with Stability Guarantees

W. Jongeneel; T. Sutter; D. Kuhn 

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control. 2023. Vol. 68, num. 5, p. 2790 – 2804. DOI : 10.1109/TAC.2022.3213770.

Stability Verification of Neural Network Controllers using Mixed-Integer Programming

R. Schwan; C. N. Jones; D. Kuhn 

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control. 2023. Vol. 68, num. 12, p. 7514 – 7529. DOI : 10.1109/TAC.2023.3283213.

Estimation of Self-Exciting Point Processes from Time-Censored Data

P. Schneider; T. A. Weber 

Physical Review E. 2023. Vol. Vol. 108, num. No. 1, Article 015303, p. 1 – 29. DOI : 10.1103/PhysRevE.108.015303.

Relatively Robust Decisions

T. A. Weber 

Theory And Decision. 2023. Vol. 94, num. 1, p. 35—62. DOI : 10.1007/s11238-022-09866-z.

Productivity gains from migration: Evidence from inventors

G. Pellegrino; O. Penner; E. Piguet; G. de Rassenfosse 

Research Policy. 2023. Vol. 52, num. 1, p. 104631. DOI : 10.1016/j.respol.2022.104631.

Location is a major barrier for transferring US fossil fuel employment to green jobs

J. Lim; M. Aklin; M. R. Frank 

Nature Communications. 2023. Vol. 14, num. 1. DOI : 10.1038/s41467-023-41133-9.

Conference Papers

Causal Effect Identification in Uncertain Causal Networks

S. Akbari; F. Jamshidi; E. Mokhtarian; M. J. Vowels; J. Etesami et al. 

2023. 37th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2023)., New Orlean, USA, 2023-12-10 – 2023-12-16.

Causal imitability under context-specific independence relations

F. Jamshidi; S. Akbari; N. Kiyavash 

2023. 37th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), New Orleans, USA, 2023-12-10 – 2023-12-16.

On Identifiability of Conditional Causal Effects

Y. Kivva; J. Etesami; N. Kiyavash 

2023. Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, UAI 2013, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, 2023-07-31 – 2023-08-04. p. 1078 – 1086. DOI : https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2306.11755.

Novel Ordering-based Approaches for Causal Structure Learning in the Presence of Unobserved Variables

 

2023. Thirty-Seventh AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Washington DC, USA,

Contextual Stochastic Bilevel Optimization

Y. Hu; J. Wang; Y. Xie; A. Krause; D. Kuhn 

2023. 37th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), New Orleans, December 10-16, 2023. DOI : 10.48550/arXiv.2310.18535.

Distributionally Robust Linear Quadratic Control

B. Taskesen; D. Iancu; C. Kocyigit; D. Kuhn 

2023. 37th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), New Orleans, December 10-16, 2023. DOI : 10.48550/arXiv.2305.17037.

End-to-End Learning for Stochastic Optimization: A Bayesian Perspective

Y. Rychener; D. Kuhn; T. Sutter 

2023. 40th International Conference on Machine Learning, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, July 23-29 2023. DOI : 10.48550/arXiv.2306.04174.

PIQP: A Proximal Interior-Point Quadratic Programming Solver

R. Schwan; Y. Jiang; D. Kuhn; C. N. Jones 

2023. 62nd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Singapore, SINGAPORE, DEC 13-15, 2023. p. 1088 – 1093. DOI : 10.1109/CDC49753.2023.10383915.

Does Sharing Lead to Smarter Products? Managing Information Flows for Collective Servitization

T. A. Weber 

2023. International Conference on Information Technology & Systems (ICITS’23), Cusco, Peru, April 24-26, 2023. p. 585 – 593. DOI : 10.1007/978-3-031-33258-6_53.

Reviews

Publishing Multimethod Research In Amj: A Review And Best-Practice Recommendations

N. Wellman; C. Tro; M. Grimes; Q. Roberson; F. Rink et al. 

Academy Of Management Journal. 2023. Vol. 66, num. 4, p. 1007 – 1015. DOI : 10.5465/amj.2023.4004.

Twisting in the Wind: The Politics of Tepid Transitions to Renewable Energy

M. Aklin 

Perspective on Politics. 2023. 

Theses

Quantitative Methods for Omnichannel Decision-Making

A. Vasilyev / R. Seifert (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2023. 

Optimizing Sales Forecasting, Inventory, Pricing and Sourcing Decisions

Y. Kayyali El Alem / R. Seifert (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2023. 

Entrepreneurial Opportunities and Threats in the Era of Grand Societal Challenges

E. Bergamini / M. Gruber (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2023. 

Economic Effect of Patents and the Patent System: Insights from Linked Patent-Product Data

G. Abi Younes / G. J. A. de Rassenfosse (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2023. 

Book Chapters

The Politics of Sustainability: Energy Efficiency, Carbon Pricing, and the Circular Economy

M. Aklin; P. Bayer 

Handbook on the Geopolitics of the Energy Transition; Cheltenham Glos, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2023.

Working Papers

Policy Gradient Algorithms for Robust MDPs with Non-Rectangular Uncertainty Sets

M. Li; T. Sutter; D. Kuhn 

2023

New Perspectives on Regularization and Computation in Optimal Transport-Based Distributionally Robust Optimization

S. Shafieezadeh Abadeh; L. Aolaritei; F. Dörfler; D. Kuhn 

2023

2022

Journal Articles

A Machine Learning-based Framework for Forecasting Sales of New Products With Short Life Cycles Using Deep Neural Networks

Y. K. Elalem; S. Meier; R. Seifert 

International Journal of Forecasting. 2022. DOI : 10.1016/j.ijforecast.2022.09.005.

(Dis)assortative partitions on random regular graphs

F. Behrens; G. Arpino; Y. Kivva; L. Zdeborova 

Journal Of Physics A-Mathematical And Theoretical. 2022. Vol. 55, num. 39, p. 395004. DOI : 10.1088/1751-8121/ac8b46.

Scientific rewards for biomedical specialization are large and persistent

G. de Rassenfosse; K. Higham; O. Penner 

Bmc Biology. 2022. Vol. 20, num. 1, p. 211. DOI : 10.1186/s12915-022-01400-5.

Limiting the impact of supply chain disruptions in the face of distributional uncertainty in demand

A. Timonina-Farkas; R. Y. Glogg; R. W. Seifert 

Production And Operations Management. 2022. DOI : 10.1111/poms.13781.

Optimal Matching of Random Parts

T. A. Weber 

Journal of Mathematical Economics. 2022. Vol. 101, p. 1 – 14, 102688. DOI : 10.1016/j.jmateco.2022.102688.

International patent protection and trade: Transaction-level evidence?

G. de Rassenfosse; M. Grazzi; D. Moschella; G. Pellegrino 

European Economic Review. 2022. Vol. 147, p. 104160. DOI : 10.1016/j.euroecorev.2022.104160.

Special Section: Reevaluating Markets for Information

R. J. Kauffman; T. A. Weber 

Journal Of Management Information Systems. 2022. Vol. 39, num. 3, p. 824 – 833. DOI : 10.1080/07421222.2022.2096552.

A Wasserstein-based measure of conditional dependence

J. Etesami; K. Zhang; N. Kiyavash 

Behaviormetrika. 2022. Vol. 49, num. 2, p. 343 – 362. DOI : 10.1007/s41237-022-00170-2.

Managing Perishability in the Fruit and Vegetable Supply Chains

M. Kirci; O. Isaksson; R. Seifert 

Sustainability. 2022. Vol. 14, num. 9, p. 5378. DOI : 10.3390/su14095378.

A conceptual construct on value for infrastructure asset management

N. Almeida; M. Trindade; D. Komljenovic; M. Finger 

Utilities Policy. 2022. Vol. 75, p. 101354. DOI : 10.1016/j.jup.2022.101354.

Identity-Society (Mis)Alignment And The Instrumentalization Of Firm Creation: Creative Destruction And Creative Reconstruction

S. Foy; M. Gruber 

Academy Of Management Journal. 2022. Vol. 65, num. 2, p. 479 – 515. DOI : 10.5465/amj.2019.0754.

Dual Approach for Two-Stage Robust Nonlinear Optimization

F. J. C. T. de Ruiter; J. Zhen; D. den Hertog 

Operations Research. 2022. DOI : 10.1287/opre.2022.2289.

Public R&D funding and new regional specialisations: The contingent role of technological relatedness

W-H. Uhlbach; P-A. Balland; T. Scherngell 

Industry And Innovation. 2022. Vol. 29, num. 4, p. 511 – 532. DOI : 10.1080/13662716.2022.2043147.

Technology Protectionism and the Patent System: Evidence from China

G. De Rassenfosse; E. Raiteri 

Journal Of Industrial Economics. 2022. DOI : 10.1111/joie.12261.

Modeling and mitigating supply chain disruptions as a bilevel network flow problem

R. Y. Glogg; A. Timonina-Farkas; R. Seifert 

Computational Management Science. 2022. DOI : 10.1007/s10287-022-00421-3.

Robustness, replicability and scalability in topic modelling

O. Ballester; O. Penner 

Journal Of Informetrics. 2022. Vol. 16, num. 1, p. 101224. DOI : 10.1016/j.joi.2021.101224.

Why Do Companies Need Operational Flexibility to Achieve Sustainability at Source?

Y. K. Elalem; I. Bicer; R. W. Seifert 

Sustainability. 2022. Vol. 14, num. 1, p. 367. DOI : 10.3390/su14010367.

Causal Discovery in Probabilistic Networks with an Identifiable Causal Effect

S. Akbari; F. Jamshidi; E. Mokhtarian; M. J. Vowels; J. Etesami et al. 

ArXiv. 2022. DOI : 10.48550/arXiv.2208.04627.

The Open Innovation in Science research field: a collaborative conceptualisation approach

S. Beck; C. Bergenholtz; M. Bogers; T-M. Brasseur; M. L. Conradsen et al. 

Industry And Innovation. 2022. Vol. 29, num. 2, p. 136 – 185. DOI : 10.1080/13662716.2020.1792274.

Beyond scientific excellence: International mobility and the entrepreneurial activities of academic scientists

W-H. Uhlbach; V. Tartari; H. C. Kongsted 

Research Policy. 2022. Vol. 51, num. 1, p. 104401. DOI : 10.1016/j.respol.2021.104401.

On Linear Optimization over Wasserstein Balls

M-C. Yue; D. Kuhn; W. Wiesemann 

Mathematical Programming. 2022. Vol. 195, num. 1-2, p. 1107 – 1122. DOI : 10.1007/s10107-021-01673-8.

Scenario Reduction Revisited: Fundamental Limits and Guarantees

N. Rujeerapaiboon; K. Schindler; D. Kuhn; W. Wiesemann 

Mathematical Programming. 2022. Vol. 191, p. 207 – 242. DOI : 10.1007/s10107-018-1269-1.

Jobs for a just transition: Evidence on coal job preferences from India

B. Blankenship; M. Aklin; J. Urpelainen; V. Nandan 

Energy Policy. 2022. Vol. 165, p. 112910. DOI : 10.1016/j.enpol.2022.112910.

Topological Linear System Identification via Moderate Deviations Theory

W. Jongeneel; T. Sutter; D. Kuhn 

IEEE Control Systems Letters. 2022. Vol. 6, p. 307 – 312. DOI : 10.1109/LCSYS.2021.3072814.

Distributionally Robust Inverse Covariance Estimation: The Wasserstein Shrinkage Estimator

V. A. Nguyen; D. Kuhn; P. Mohajerin Esfahani 

Operations Research. 2022. Vol. 70, num. 1, p. 490 – 515. DOI : 10.1287/opre.2020.2076.

Robust Multidimensional Pricing: Separation without Regret

C. Kocyigit Yalcin; N. Rujeerapaiboon; D. Kuhn 

Mathematical Programming. 2022. Vol. 196, p. 841 – 874. DOI : 10.1007/s10107-021-01615-4.

Quantifying Endogeneity of Cryptocurrency Markets

M. Mark; J. Sila; T. A. Weber 

European Journal of Finance. 2022. Vol. 28, num. 7, p. 784—799. DOI : 10.1080/1351847X.2020.1791925.

Inflation concerns and mass preferences over exchange‐rate policy

M. Aklin; E. Arias; J. Gray 

Economics & Politics. 2022. Vol. 34, num. 1, p. 5 – 40. DOI : 10.1111/ecpo.12176.

Supply preferences and productive electricity use constraints among micro and small enterprises in Bihar, India

S. Pelz; M. Aklin; J. Urpelainen 

Energy for Sustainable Development. 2022. Vol. 67, p. 151 – 162. DOI : 10.1016/j.esd.2022.01.004.

Optimal recovery of unsecured debt via interpretable reinforcement learning

M. Mark; N. Chehrazi; H. Liu; T. A. Weber 

Machine Learning with Applications. 2022. Vol. 8, p. 1 – 9, 100280. DOI : 10.1016/j.mlwa.2022.100280.

Conference Papers

Stochastic Second-Order Methods Improve Best-Known Sample Complexity of SGD for Gradient-Dominated Function

S. Masiha; S. Salehkaleybar; N. He; N. Kiyavash; P. Thiran 

2022. 

Minimum Cost Intervention Design for Causal Effect Identification

S. Akbari; J. Etesami; N. Kiyavash 

2022. International Conference on Machine Learning 2022, Baltimore, USA, DOI : 10.48550/arxiv.2205.02232.

Revisiting the General Identifiability Problem

Y. Kivva; E. Mokhtarian; J. Etesami; N. Kiyavash 

2022. Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, Eindhoven, Netherlands, August 2nd – August 4th, 2022. p. 1022 – 1030.

Causal Effect Identification with Context-specific Independence Relations of Control Variables

E. Mokhtarian; F. Jamshidi; J. Etesami; N. Kiyavash 

2022. International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics, ELECTR NETWORK, Mar 28-30, 2022.

Reviews

Political Economies of Energy Transition: Wind and Solar Power in Brazil and South Africa

M. Aklin 

Political Science Quarterly. 2022. Vol. 137, num. 2, p. 424 – 426. DOI : 10.1002/polq.13323.

Theses

Technology Strategy in Dynamic Environments: A Computational Analysis of the Automation of Routines, the Organization of AI, and the Evaluation of Technology Risk

M. W. Hofer / K. Younge (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2022. 

Essays on the Role of Policy and Venture Financing in Clean Technology Innovation

M. D. van den Heuvel / G. J. A. de Rassenfosse (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2022. 

Vehicle-to-Grid for Reliable Frequency Regulation

D. Lauinger / D. Kuhn; F. R. Vuille (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2022. 

Self-Exciting Point Processes: Identification and Control

M. Mark / T. A. Weber (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2022. 

Book Chapters

Nothing New Under the Sun: Novelty Constructs and Measures in Social Studies

D. Bavato 

The Generation, Recognition and Legitimation of Novelty; Bingley: Emerald Publishing Limited, 2022. p. 27 – 49.

Renewable Energy, Energy Poverty, and Climate Change

M. Aklin 

The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Environmental Politics; New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2022. p. 658 – 678.

Working Papers

Momentum-Based Policy Gradient with Second-Order Information

S. Salehkaleybar; M. Khorasani; N. Kiyavash; N. He; P. Thiran 

2022

Meta-Learners for Estimation of Causal Effects: Finite Sample Cross-Fit Performance

G. Okasa 

2022

Metrizing Fairness

Y. Rychener; B. Taskesen; D. Kuhn 

2022

Distributionally Robust Optimal Allocation with Costly Verification

H. İ. Bayrak; C. Kocyigit; D. Kuhn; M. Pinar 

2022

Power Shifts, Emigration, and Population Sorting

M. Aklin; V. Eichenauer 

2022

Reports

Targeting Agricultural Electricity Subsidies in Haryana

A. Viswamohanan; S. Shruti; M. Aklin; T. Moerenhout 

2022

Jharkhand Rural Energy Access: Enduring Challenges in Quality, Affordability, and Billing

B. Diksha; M. Aklin; B. Blankenship; V. Nanda; J. Urpelainen 

2022

Media

Enable a just transition for American fossil fuel workers through federal action

M. Aklin; J. Urpelainen 

2022.

2021

Journal Articles

Low-Quality Patents in the Eye of the Beholder: Evidence from Multiple Examiners

G. de Rassenfosse; W. E. Griffiths; A. B. Jaffe; E. Webster 

Journal Of Law Economics & Organization. 2021. Vol. 37, num. 3, p. 607 – 636. DOI : 10.1093/jleo/ewaa026.

Basic Needs as the Boundary Condition for a Reconceptualization of Necessity Entrepreneurship across Contexts

J. C. Dencker; S. Bacq; M. Gruber 

Academy Of Management Review. 2021. Vol. 46, num. 4, p. 830 – 835. DOI : 10.5465/amr.2020.0491.

Continuums and Dichotomies in Necessity Entrepreneurship research

J. C. Dencker; S. Bacq; M. Gruber 

Academy Of Management Review. 2021. Vol. 46, num. 4, p. 825 – 827. DOI : 10.5465/amr.2021.0231.

Does It Pay to Do Novel Science? The Selectivity Patterns in Science Funding

C. Ayoubi; M. Pezzoni; F. Visentin 

Science And Public Policy. 2021. Vol. 48, num. 5, p. 635 – 648. DOI : 10.1093/scipol/scab031.

A new meta-coupling framework to diagnose the inequity hidden in China’s cultivated land use

X. Chuai; R. Gao; J. Li; X. Guo; Q. Lu et al. 

Environmental Science & Policy. 2021. Vol. 124, p. 635 – 644. DOI : 10.1016/j.envsci.2021.08.001.

Special Section: Improving New Digital Market Mechanisms

R. J. Kauffman; T. A. Weber 

Journal Of Management Information Systems. 2021. Vol. 38, num. 3, p. 574 – 578. DOI : 10.1080/07421222.2021.1958541.

Buyers’ role in innovation procurement: Evidence from US military R&D contracts

F. Decarolis; G. Rassenfosse; L. M. Giuffrida; E. Iossa; V. Mollisi et al. 

Journal Of Economics & Management Strategy. 2021. Vol. 30, num. 4, p. 697 – 720. DOI : 10.1111/jems.12430.

Editorial

A. Gandhi; N. Kiyavash; J. Wang 

Proceedings Of The Acm On Measurement And Analysis Of Computing Systems. 2021. Vol. 5, num. 2, p. 13. DOI : 10.1145/3466793.

The embodied flow of built-up land in China?s interregional trade and its implications for regional carbon balance

X. Chuai; R. Gao; X. Huang; Q. Lu; R. Zhao 

Ecological Economics. 2021. Vol. 184, p. 106993. DOI : 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2021.106993.

Adversarial orthogonal regression: Two non-linear regressions for causal inference

M. R. Heydari; S. Salehkaleybar; K. Zhang 

Neural Networks. 2021. Vol. 143, p. 66 – 73. DOI : 10.1016/j.neunet.2021.05.018.

Strategic Citation: A Reassessment

J. Kuhn; K. Younge; A. Marco 

The Review of Economics and Statistics. 2021.  p. 1 – 24. DOI : 10.1162/rest_a_01051.

Getting more from many – A framework of community resourcefulness in new venture creation

C. Hertel; J. Binder; E. Fauchart 

Journal Of Business Venturing. 2021. Vol. 36, num. 3, p. 106094. DOI : 10.1016/j.jbusvent.2021.106094.

Paradoxical simulation results of chaos-like chattering in the bouncing ball system

K. Schindler; R. I. Leine 

Physica D-Nonlinear Phenomena. 2021. Vol. 419, p. 132854. DOI : 10.1016/j.physd.2021.132854.

Patent Quality: Towards a Systematic Framework for Analysis and Measurement

K. Higham; G. de Rassenfosse; A. B. Jaffe 

Research Policy. 2021. Vol. 50, num. 4, p. 104215. DOI : 10.1016/j.respol.2021.104215.

Decentralising the patent system

G. de Rassenfosse; K. Higham 

Government Information Quarterly. 2021. Vol. 38, num. 2, p. 101559. DOI : 10.1016/j.giq.2020.101559.

A general framework for stock dynamics of populations and built and natural environments

D. Lauinger; R. G. Billy; F. Vásquez; D. B. Müller 

Journal of Industrial Ecology. 2021. Vol. 25, num. 5, p. 1136 – 1146. DOI : 10.1111/jiec.13117.

Imputation of missing information in worldwide patent data

G. de Rassenfosse; F. Seliger 

Data In Brief. 2021. Vol. 34, p. 106615. DOI : 10.1016/j.dib.2020.106615.

Re-evaluating natural resource investments under uncertainty: An alternative to limited traditional approaches

S. Maier 

Annals Of Operations Research. 2021. Vol. 299, p. 907 – 937. DOI : 10.1007/s10479-020-03569-w.

Benefiting from additive manufacturing for mass customization across the product life cycle

R. Lacroix; R. W. Seifert; A. Timonina-Farkas 

Operations Research Perspectives. 2021. Vol. 8, p. 100201. DOI : 10.1016/j.orp.2021.100201.

COVID-19: data-driven dynamic asset allocation in times of pandemic

A. Timonina-Farkas 

Quantitative Finance And Economics. 2021. Vol. 5, num. 2, p. 198 – 227. DOI : 10.3934/QFE.2021009.

The formation of Coasean institutions to provide university knowledge for innovation: a case study and econometric evidence for Switzerland

D. Foray; M. Woerter 

Journal Of Technology Transfer. 2021. Vol. 46, p. 1584 – 1610. DOI : 10.1007/s10961-020-09828-z.

Smart specialization strategies – insights gained from a unique European policy experiment on innovation and industrial policy design

D. Foray; M. Eichler; M. Keller 

Review of Evolutionary Political Economy. 2021. Vol. 2, p. 83 – 103. DOI : 10.1007/s43253-020-00026-z.

The role of demand in fostering product vs process innovation: a model and an empirical test

H. Dawid; G. Pellegrino; M. Vivarelli 

Journal Of Evolutionary Economics. 2021. Vol. 31, p. 1553 – 1572. DOI : 10.1007/s00191-020-00695-3.

Optimal Adversarial Policies in the Multiplicative Learning System With a Malicious Expert

S. R. Etesami; N. Kiyavash; V. Leon; H. V. Poor 

Ieee Transactions On Information Forensics And Security. 2021. Vol. 16, p. 2276 – 2287. DOI : 10.1109/TIFS.2021.3052360.

Manufacturing Management in Process Industries: The Impact of Market Conditions and Capital Expenditure on Firm Performance

P. U. Moser; O. Isaksson; S. Okwir; R. Seifert 

IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management. 2021. Vol. 68, num. 3, p. 810 – 822. DOI : 10.1109/TEM.2019.2914995.

Reconceptualizing Necessity Entrepreneurship: A Contextualized Framework Of Entrepreneurial Processes Under The Condition Of Basic Needs

J. C. Dencker; S. Bacq; M. Gruber; M. Haas 

Academy Of Management Review. 2021. Vol. 46, num. 1, p. 60 – 79. DOI : 10.5465/amr.2017.0471.

Energy and Reserve Dispatch with Distributionally Robust Joint Chance Constraints

C. Ordoudis; V. A. Nguyen; D. Kuhn; P. Pinson 

Operations Research Letters. 2021. Vol. 49, num. 3, p. 291 – 299. DOI : 10.1016/j.orl.2021.01.012.

From Data to Decisions: Distributionally Robust Optimization is Optimal

B. P. Van Parys; P. Mohajerin Esfahani; D. Kuhn 

Management Science. 2021. Vol. 67, num. 6, p. 3321 – 3984. DOI : 10.1287/mnsc.2020.3678.

The hedonic treadmill: Electricity access in India has increased, but so have expectations

M. Aklin; N. Chindarkar; J. Urpelainen; A. Jain; K. Ganesan 

Energy Policy. 2021. Vol. 156, p. 112391. DOI : 10.1016/j.enpol.2021.112391.

The great equalizer: Inequality in tribal energy access and policies to address it

M. Aklin; B. Blankenship; V. Nandan; J. Urpelainen 

Energy Research & Social Science. 2021. Vol. 79, p. 102132. DOI : 10.1016/j.erss.2021.102132.

Do high electricity bills undermine public support for renewables? Evidence from the European Union

M. Aklin 

Energy Policy. 2021. Vol. 156, p. 112400. DOI : 10.1016/j.enpol.2021.112400.

Inequality in policy implementation: caste and electrification in rural India

M. Aklin; C-Y. Cheng; J. Urpelainen 

Journal of Public Policy. 2021. Vol. 41, num. 2, p. 331 – 359. DOI : 10.1017/S0143814X20000045.

Minimum-Error Classes for Matching Parts

T. A. Weber 

Operations Research Letters. 2021. Vol. 49, p. 106 – 112. DOI : 10.1016/j.orl.2020.12.003.

The off-grid catch-22: Effective institutions as a prerequisite for the global deployment of distributed renewable power

M. Aklin 

Energy Research & Social Science. 2021. Vol. 72, p. 101830. DOI : 10.1016/j.erss.2020.101830.

The evolving role of solar-based lighting solutions in rural India: Global lessons for distributed renewables

M. Aklin; J. Urpelainen 

Energy for Sustainable Development. 2021. Vol. 63, p. 113 – 118. DOI : 10.1016/j.esd.2021.05.009.

Electrification and productive use among micro- and small-enterprises in rural North India

S. Pelz; M. Aklin; J. Urpelainen 

Energy Policy. 2021. Vol. 156, p. 112401. DOI : 10.1016/j.enpol.2021.112401.

The Side Effects of Central Bank Independence

M. Aklin; A. Kern 

American Journal of Political Science. 2021. Vol. 65, num. 4, p. 971 – 987. DOI : 10.1111/ajps.12580.

Conference Papers

Impact of Data Processing on Fairness in Supervised Learning

S. Khodadadian; A. Ghassami; N. Kiyavash 

2021. IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), ELECTR NETWORK, Jul 12-20, 2021. p. 2643 – 2648. DOI : 10.1109/ISIT45174.2021.9517766.

The KDD 2021 Workshop on Causal Discovery (CD2021)

Thuc Duy Le; J. Li; G. Cooper; S. Triantafyllou; E. Bareinboim et al. 

2021. 27th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), ELECTR NETWORK, Aug 14-18, 2021. p. 4141 – 4142. DOI : 10.1145/3447548.3469462.

A Statistical Test for Probabilistic Fairness

B. Taskesen; J. Blanchet; D. Kuhn; V. A. Nguyen 

2021. ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency, March 3-10, 2021. DOI : 10.1145/3442188.3445927.

Sequential Domain Adaptation by Synthesizing Distributionally Robust Experts

B. Taskesen; M-C. Yue; J. Blanchet; D. Kuhn; V. A. Nguyen 

2021. 38th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2021), Virtual, July 18-24, 2021. p. 7168 – 7179.

On Topological Equivalence in Linear Quadratic Optimal Control

W. Jongeneel; D. Kuhn 

2021. 2021 European Control Conference (ECC), Rotterdam, Netherlands, June 29 – July 2, 2021. p. 2002 – 2007. DOI : 10.23919/ECC54610.2021.9654863.

Robust Generalization despite Distribution Shift via Minimum Discriminating Information

T. Sutter; A. Krause; D. Kuhn 

2021. 35th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), Virtual, December 7-10, 2021.

Distributionally Robust Optimization with Markovian Data

M. Li; T. Sutter; D. Kuhn 

2021. 38th International Conference on Machine Learning, Virtual, July 18-24, 2021. p. 6493 – 6503.

Theses

Modeling Supply Chain Disruptions: A Network Flow Approach

R. Y. Glogg / R. Seifert (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2021. 

Industry 4.0 Technologies and Customer-centricity for Digital Supply Chains

R. A. L. R. M. Lacroix / R. Seifert (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2021. 

Exploring policy change through agent-based simulation

R. Klein / M. Finger (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2021. 

Seeking methods for improving sustainability in the extractive sector

F. Eslamishoar / C. Tucci (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2021. 

Essays on the Economics of Innovation: Incentives, Diffusion, and Disparity

L. Zhou / G. J. A. de Rassenfosse (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2021. 

Working Papers

Does Central Bank Independence Increase Inequality?

M. Aklin; A. Kern; M. Negre 

2021

Mean-Covariance Robust Risk Measurement

V. A. Nguyen; S. Shafieezadeh Abadeh; D. Filipovic; D. Kuhn 

2021

Reports

How to Target LPG Subsidies in India: Step 2. Evaluating policy options in Jharkhand

S. Sharma; T. Moerenhout; M. Aklin; K. Bajaj 

2021

2020

Journal Articles

Imbalance and drivers of carbon emissions embodied in trade along the Belt and Road Initiative

Q. Lu; K. Fang; R. Heijungs; K. Feng; J. Li et al. 

Applied Energy. 2020. Vol. 280, p. 115934. DOI : 10.1016/j.apenergy.2020.115934.

Footprint of SO2 in China’s international trade and the interregional hotspot analysis

X. Chuai; Q. Lu; J. Li 

Applied Geography. 2020. Vol. 125, p. 102282. DOI : 10.1016/j.apgeog.102282.

Graph Signal Processing: Foundations and Emerging Directions [From the Guest Editors]

A. G. Marques; N. Kiyavash; J. M. F. Moura; D. van de Ville; R. Willett 

Ieee Signal Processing Magazine. 2020. Vol. 37, num. 6, p. 11 – 13. DOI : 10.1109/MSP.2020.3020715.

Product assortment and space allocation strategies to attract loyal and non-loyal customers

A. Timonina-Farkas; A. Katsifou; R. W. Seifert 

European Journal Of Operational Research. 2020. Vol. 285, num. 3, p. 1058 – 1076. DOI : 10.1016/j.ejor.2020.02.019.

China’s construction industry-linked economy-resources-environment flow in international trade

X. Chuai; Q. Lu; X. Huang; R. Gao; R. Zhao 

Journal of Cleaner Production. 2020. Vol. 278, p. 123990. DOI : 10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.123990.

Sustainability as a Competitive Tool for the Brave? Or for the Best? A Behavioral Theory Perspective

E. L. M. Bettinazzi; L. Massa; K. Neumann 

Organization & Environment. 2020. Vol. 33, num. 3, p. 408 – 436. DOI : 10.1177/1086026619839364.

Six additional replies – one more chorus of the S3 ballad

D. Foray 

European Planning Studies. 2020. Vol. 28, num. 8, p. 1685 – 1690. DOI : 10.1080/09654313.2020.1797307.

Renormalizing individual performance metrics for cultural heritage management of sports records

A. M. Petersen; O. Penner 

Chaos Solitons & Fractals. 2020. Vol. 136, p. 109821. DOI : 10.1016/j.chaos.2020.109821.

Motivating Innovation: The Effect of Loss Aversion on the Willingness to Persist

Y. Rosokha; K. A. Younge 

Review of Economics and Statistics. 2020. Vol. 102, num. 3, p. 569 – 582. DOI : 10.1162/rest_a_00846.

Tracing China’s external driving sources and internal emission hotspots of export-driven PM10 emission

Y. Yuan; X. Chuai; R. Zhao; Q. Lu; X. Huang et al. 

Journal Of Cleaner Production. 2020. Vol. 253, p. 119867. DOI : 10.1016/j.jclepro.2019.119867.

Robust Identification of Controlled Hawkes Processes

M. Mark; T. A. Weber 

Physical Review E. 2020. Vol. 101, num. 4, p. 043305. DOI : 10.1103/PhysRevE.101.043305.

Mitigating Product Shortage Due to Disruptions in Multi-Stage Supply Chains

F. Lucker; S. Chopra; R. W. Seifert 

Production And Operations Management. 2020. Vol. 30, num. 4, p. 941 – 964. DOI : 10.1111/poms.13286.

On the economics of social innovation – a conceptual framework and its policy implications

A. Cuntz; D. Foray; E. Mostovova 

Innovation – Organization & Management. 2020. Vol. 22, num. 4, p. 469 – 487. DOI : 10.1080/14479338.2020.1735394.

Innovation, industry and firm age: are there new knowledge production functions?

G. Pellegrino; M. Piva 

Eurasian Business Review. 2020. Vol. 10, num. 1, p. 65 – 95. DOI : 10.1007/s40821-019-00129-6.

Patent citations reexamined

J. Kuhn; K. Younge; A. Marco 

Rand Journal Of Economics. 2020. Vol. 51, num. 1, p. 109 – 132. DOI : 10.1111/1756-2171.12307.

Optimizing the trade-off between performance measures and operational risk in a food supply chain environment

S. Voldrich; P. Wieser; N. Zufferey 

Soft Computing. 2020. Vol. 24, num. 5, p. 3365 – 3378. DOI : 10.1007/s00500-019-04099-9.

Sources of knowledge flow between developed and developing nations

G. de Rassenfosse; F. Seliger 

Science And Public Policy. 2020. Vol. 47, num. 1, p. 16 – 30. DOI : 10.1093/scipol/scz042.

The Lean Startup Framework: Closing the Academic-Practitioner Divide

D. A. Shepherd; M. Gruber 

Entrepreneurship Theory And Practice. 2020.  p. 1042258719899415. DOI : 10.1177/1042258719899415.

Learning Linear Non-Gaussian Causal Models in the Presence of Latent Variables

S. Salehkaleybar; A. Ghassami; N. Kiyavash; K. Zhang 

Journal Of Machine Learning Research. 2020. Vol. 21.

I Am What I Pledge: The Importance of Value Alignment for Mobilizing Backers in Reward-Based Crowdfunding

K. Roed Nielsen; J. Binder 

Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice. 2020.  p. 1042258720929888. DOI : 10.1177/1042258720929888.

The European Union Emissions Trading System reduced CO 2 emissions despite low prices

P. Bayer; M. Aklin 

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 2020. Vol. 117, num. 16, p. 8804 – 8812. DOI : 10.1073/pnas.1918128117.

Design of a quality control network for an international food company

S. Voldrich; P. Wieser; N. Zufferey 

Infor. 2020. Vol. 58, num. 1, p. 1 – 16. DOI : 10.1080/03155986.2018.1533206.

Distributionally Robust Optimization with Polynomial Densities: Theory, Models and Algorithms

E. de Klerk; D. Kuhn; K. Postek 

Mathematical Programming. 2020. Vol. 181, p. 265 – 296. DOI : 10.1007/s10107-019-01429-5.

Distributionally Robust Mechanism Design

C. Kocyigit; G. Iyengar; D. Kuhn; W. Wiesemann 

Management Science. 2020. Vol. 66, num. 1, p. 159 – 189. DOI : 10.1287/mnsc.2018.3219.

How to Market Smart Products: Design and Pricing for Sharing Markets

T. A. Weber 

Journal of Management Information Systems. 2020. Vol. 37, num. 3 (Winter 2020), p. 631—667. DOI : 10.1080/07421222.2020.1790179.

Trials and tribulations: Lost energy access gains in rural India

M. Aklin; J. Urpelainen 

Energy for Sustainable Development. 2020. Vol. 55, p. 190 – 200. DOI : 10.1016/j.esd.2020.01.002.

Discrimination against foreigners in the U.S. patent system

G. de Rassenfosse; R. Hosseini 

Journal of International Business Policy. 2020. Vol. 3, p. 349 – 366. DOI : 10.1057/s42214-020-00058-6.

COVID-19 : Insights from innovation economists

G. Abi Younes; C. C. Ayoubi; O. Ballester Gonzalez; G. Cristelli; G. de Rassenfosse et al. 

Science and Public Policy. 2020.  p. 1 – 13. DOI : 10.1093/scipol/scaa028.

Wanted: A standard for virtual patent marking

G. de Rassenfosse; K. W. Higham 

Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice. 2020. Vol. 15, num. 7, p. 544 – 553. DOI : 10.1093/jiplp/jpaa063.

Prisoners of the Wrong Dilemma: Why Distributive Conflict, Not Collective Action, Characterizes the Politics of Climate Change

M. Aklin; M. Mildenberger 

Global Environmental Politics. 2020. Vol. 20, num. 4, p. 4 – 27. DOI : 10.1162/glep_a_00578.

Conference Papers

Model-Augmented Conditional Mutual Information Estimation for Feature Selection

A. Yang; A. Ghassami; M. Raginsky; N. Kiyavash; E. Rosenbaum 

2020. 36th Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI), Virtual Conference, August 3-6, 2020. p. 1139 – 1148.

LazyIter: A Fast Algorithm for Counting Markov Equivalent DAGs and Designing Experiments

A. AhmadiTeshnizi; S. Salehkaleybar; N. Kiyavash 

2020. 37th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2020), Online, July 13-18, 2020. p. 125 – 133.

A Catalyst Framework for Minimax Optimization

J. Yang; S. Zhang; N. Kiyavash; N. He 

2020. 34th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), ELECTR NETWORK, Dec 06-12, 2020.

Characterizing Distribution Equivalence and Structure Learning for Cyclic and Acyclic Directed Graphs

A. Ghassami; A. Yang; N. Kiyavash; K. Zhang 

2020. 37th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2020), Online, July 13-17, 2021. p. 3494 – 3504.

Global Convergence and Variance Reduction for a Class of Nonconvex-Nonconcave Minimax Problems

J. Yang; N. Kiyavash; N. He 

2020. 34th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 20, Vancouver, Canada, December 6-12, 2020.

Achievability of nearly-exact alignment for correlated Gaussian databases

O. E. Dai; N. Kiyavash; D. Cullina 

2020. 2020 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Los Angeles, CA, USA, Virtual Conference, June 21-26, 2020. p. 1230 – 1235. DOI : 10.1109/ISIT44484.2020.9174507.

The Devil is in the Detail: A Framework for Macroscopic Prediction via Microscopic Models

Y. Yang; N. Kiyavash; L. Song; N. He 

2020. 34th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2020), Vancouver, Canada, December 7-12, 2020.

Societal impact at the nexus of entrepreneurship and community—Taking stock and looking ahead

S. C. Bacq; C. J. Hertel; G. T. Lumpkin 

2020. 80th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Virtual Event, August 7-11, 2020. DOI : 10.5465/AMBPP.2020.288.

Planning Supply with ‘Opportunity Goods’ : Complementing Premium Parts with Select Discount Components

T. A. Weber 

2020. 3rd International Conference on Computers in Management and Business, Tokyo, Japan, January, 2020. p. 243 – 247. DOI : 10.1145/3383845.3383897.

Nonlinear Pricing of Shareable Products

T. A. Weber 

2020. 53rd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Maui, Hawaii, January 7-10, 2020. DOI : 10.24251/HICSS.2020.737.

Reviews

Creating New Ventures: A Review and Research Agenda

D. A. Shepherd; V. Souitaris; M. Gruber 

Journal Of Management. 2020.  p. 0149206319900537. DOI : 10.1177/0149206319900537.

Introduction to the Minitrack on Strategy, Information, Technology, Economics, and Society (SITES)

R. J. Kauffman; T. A. Weber 

Proceedings of the 53rd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS). 2020.  p. 5972—5973. DOI : 10.24251/hicss.2020.731.

Special Section: The Economics of Sharing and Information Security

R. Kauffman; T. A. Weber 

Journal of Management Information Systems. 2020. Vol. 37, num. 3, p. 598—601. DOI : 10.1080/07421222.2020.1790176.

Theses

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

C. C. Ayoubi / D. Foray (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2020. 

The triangular value of patents

A. Neklyudova-Khairullina / C. Tucci (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2020. 

Entrepreneurship across Sociocultural Contexts: Empirical and Theoretical Perspectives

S. E. Foy / M. Gruber (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2020. 

Assessing Technology Adoption in the European Air Traffic Management: The Cases of Virtual Centre and Flight-Centric Operations

E. Zeki / M. Finger (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2020. 

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

J. Shen / M. Finger; M. Gruber (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2020. 

The shaping effects of innovation and technology: from micro business model evolution to macro environment sustainability

Q. Lu / C. Tucci (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2020. 

Financing Biomedical Ventures – Myths and Realities

J. S. Behrens / C. Tucci (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2020. 

Distributional Robustness in Mechanism Design

C. Kocyigit / D. Kuhn (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2020. 

Scalable Stochastic Optimization: Scenario Reduction with Guarantees

K. Schindler / D. Kuhn (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2020. 

Wasserstein Distributionally Robust Learning

S. Shafieezadeh Abadeh / D. Kuhn (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2020. 

The organisation of science: topics, incentives and funding.

O. Ballester Gonzalez / G. J. A. de Rassenfosse (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2020. 

Book Chapters

Entrepreneurship and Identity

E. Fauchart Foray; M. Gruber 

The Oxford Handbook of Identities in Organizations; Oxford University Press, 2020.

Digital Transformation and Business Model Innovation in the Film Industry: The Case of Movieday.it

A. Solidoro; G. Viscusi 

Technology and Creativity Production, Mediation and Evaluation in the Digital Age; Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. p. 239 – 265.

Working Papers

Free Movement of Inventors: Open-Border Policy and Innovation in Switzerland

G. Cristelli; F. Lissoni 

2020

Environmental care and morality: An economic model with heterogeneous agents

C. C. Ayoubi; B. Thurm 

2020

Reports

How to Target Residential Electricity Subsidies in India: Step 2. Evaluating policy options in the State of Jharkhand

S. Sharma; T. Moerenhout; M. Aklin 

2020

Media

Le mieux est l’ennemi du bien: les bienfaits de la loi sur le CO2 compensent ses carences

M. Aklin 

2020.

2019

Journal Articles

R&D offshoring and home industry productivity

G. de Rassenfosse; R. Thomson 

Industrial And Corporate Change. 2019. Vol. 28, num. 6, p. 1497 – 1513. DOI : 10.1093/icc/dtz020.

Geocoding of worldwide patent data

G. de Rassenfosse; J. Kozak; F. Seliger 

Scientific Data. 2019. Vol. 6, p. 260. DOI : 10.1038/s41597-019-0264-6.

The Who, Where, What, How and When of Market Entry

G. D. Markman; P. Gianiodis; G. Tyge Payne; C. Tucci; I. Filatotchev et al. 

Journal Of Management Studies. 2019. Vol. 56, num. 7, p. 1241 – 1259. DOI : 10.1111/joms.12448.

Are Foreigners Treated Equally under the Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights Agreement?

G. de Rassenfosse; P. H. Jensen; T. Julius; A. Palangkaraya; E. Webster 

Journal Of Law & Economics. 2019. Vol. 62, num. 4, p. 663 – 685. DOI : 10.1086/705801.

Effectiveness of a strategic energy reserve during the energy transition: The case of Switzerland

P. A. van Baal 

Competition and Regulation in Network Industries. 2019.  p. 178359171987936. DOI : 10.1177/1783591719879365.

Large scale extreme risk assessment using copulas: an application to drought events under climate change for Austria

S. Hochrainer-Stigler; J. Balkovic; K. Silm; A. Timonina-Farkas 

Computational Management Science. 2019. Vol. 16, num. 4, p. 651 – 669. DOI : 10.1007/s10287-018-0339-4.

On the Exact Gevrey Order of Formal Puiseux Series Solutions to the Third Painleve Equation

A. Parusnikova; A. Vasilyev 

Journal Of Dynamical And Control Systems. 2019. Vol. 25, num. 4, p. 681 – 690. DOI : 10.1007/s10883-019-09449-2.

Big Data Use and Challenges: Insights from Two Internet-Mediated Surveys

E. Rossi; C. Rubattino; G. Viscusi 

Computers. 2019. Vol. 8, num. 4, p. 1 – 15, 73. DOI : 10.3390/computers8040073.

In response to ‘Six critical questions about smart spezialisation’

D. Foray 

European Planning Studies. 2019. Vol. 27, num. 10, p. 2066 – 2078. DOI : 10.1080/09654313.2019.1664037.

Strategic Objectives For State-Owned Enterprises As A Means To Mitigate Political Interference: An Empirical Analysis Of Two Swiss State-Owned Enterprises

F. Liechti; M. Finger 

Annals Of Public And Cooperative Economics. 2019. Vol. 90, num. 3, p. 513 – 534. DOI : 10.1111/apce.12227.

Discovering The Discoveries: What Amd Authors’ Voices Can Tell Us

C. Tucci; J. Mueller; M. Christianson; G. Whiteman; P. Bamberger 

Academy Of Management Discoveries. 2019. Vol. 5, num. 3, p. 209 – 216. DOI : 10.5465/amd.2019.0210.

Beyond R&D: the role of embodied technological change in affecting employment

G. Pellegrino; M. Piva; M. Vivarelli 

Journal Of Evolutionary Economics. 2019. Vol. 29, num. 4, p. 1151 – 1171. DOI : 10.1007/s00191-019-00635-w.

Necessity entrepreneurship and industry choice in new firm creation

A. (. Nikiforou; J. C. Dencker; M. Gruber 

Strategic Management Journal. 2019. Vol. 40, num. 13, p. 2165 – 2190. DOI : 10.1002/smj.3075.

The procurement of innovation by the U.S. government

G. de Rassenfosse; A. Jaffe; E. Raiteri 

PLoS One. 2019. Vol. 14, num. 8, p. e0218927. DOI : 10.1371/journal.pone.0218927.

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

A. Mahzouni 

Facilities. 2019. Vol. 37, num. 11/12, p. 780 – 798. DOI : 10.1108/F-02-2017-0025.

Ex-ante measure of patent quality reveals intrinsic fitness for citation-network growth

K. W. Higham; M. Governale; A. B. Jaffe; U. Zulicke 

Physical Review E. 2019. Vol. 99, num. 6, p. 060301. DOI : 10.1103/PhysRevE.99.060301.

Innovation persistence and employment dynamics

S. Bianchini; G. Pellegrino 

Research Policy. 2019. Vol. 48, num. 5, p. 1171 – 1186. DOI : 10.1016/j.respol.2018.12.008.

Dynamic Credit-Collections Optimization

N. Chehrazi; P. W. Glynn; T. A. Weber 

Management Science. 2019.  p. 2737—2769. DOI : 10.1287/mnsc.2018.3070.

Quantifying Commitment in Nash Equilibria

T. A. Weber 

International Game Theory Review. 2019. Vol. 21, num. 2, p. 1940011. DOI : 10.1142/S0219198919400115.

The Effect of European Integration on Swiss Energy Policy and Governance

P. A. Van Baal; M. Finger 

Politics and Governance. 2019. Vol. 7, num. 1, p. 6 – 16. DOI : 10.17645/pag.v7i1.1780.

On the price elasticity of demand for trademarks

G. de Rassenfosse 

Industry And Innovation. 2019. Vol. 27, num. 1-2, p. 11 – 24. DOI : 10.1080/13662716.2019.1591939.

On sector-non-neutral innovation policy: towards new design principles

D. Foray 

Journal of Evolutionary Economics. 2019. Vol. 29, p. 1379 – 1397. DOI : 10.1007/s00191-018-0599-8.

Is Demand Planning Ready for AI

R. Markoff; R. Seifert 

Supply Chain Quarterly. 2019. Vol. 2, num. 2, p. 18 – 20.

The Minimization of Public Facilities With Enhanced Genetic Algorithms Using War Elimination

P. Seda; M. Mark; K-W. Su; J. Hosek; J-S. Leu et al. 

Ieee Access. 2019. Vol. 7, p. 9395 – 9405. DOI : 10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2891424.

Painting with All the Colors: The Value of Social Identity Theory for Understanding Social Entrepreneurship

N. D. Pan; M. Gruber; J. Binder 

Academy Of Management Review. 2019. Vol. 44, num. 1, p. 213 – 215. DOI : 10.5465/amr.2017.0504.

The important thing is not to win, it is to take part: What if scientists benefit from participating in research grant competitions?

C. C. Ayoubi; M. Pezzoni; F. Visentin 

Research Policy. 2019. Vol. 48, num. 1, p. 84 – 97. DOI : 10.1016/j.respol.2018.07.021.

Evidence of gender inequality in energy use from a mixed-methods study in India

M. Rosenberg; D. E. Armanios; M. Aklin; P. Jaramillo 

Nature Sustainability. 2019. Vol. 3, num. 2, p. 110 – 118. DOI : 10.1038/s41893-019-0447-3.

The Decision Rule Approach to Optimisation under Uncertainty: Methodology and Applications

A. Georghiou; W. Wiesemann; D. Kuhn 

Computational Management Science. 2019. Vol. 16, num. 4, p. 545 – 576. DOI : 10.1007/s10287-018-0338-5.

Are the Innovation Needs of Low-Technological Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises in Line with Knowledge Production by Research Institutions?

C. Aouinait; D. Christen; A. Kosinska; W. Andlauer; C. Carlen 

Journal Of Innovation Economics & Management. 2019. num. 29, p. 183 – 211. DOI : 10.3917/jie.029.0183.

Generalized maximum entropy estimation

T. Sutter; D. Sutter; P. M. Esfahani; J. Lygeros 

Journal Of Machine Learning Research. 2019. Vol. 20, p. 138.

Regularization via Mass Transportation

S. Shafieezadeh Abadeh; D. Kuhn; P. Mohajerin Esfahani 

Journal of Machine Learning Research. 2019. Vol. 20, num. 103, p. 1 – 68.

“Dice”-sion Making under Uncertainty: When Can a Random Decision Reduce Risk?

E. Delage; D. Kuhn; W. Wiesemann 

Management Science. 2019. Vol. 65, num. 7, p. 3282 – 3301. DOI : 10.1287/mnsc.2018.3108.

Strategic Durability with Sharing Markets

M. Razeghian Jahromi; T. A. Weber 

Sustainable Production and Consumption. 2019. Vol. 19, p. 79 – 96. DOI : 10.2139/ssrn.2842550.

Size Matters: Cardinality-Constrained Clustering and Outlier Detection via Conic Optimization

N. Rujeerapaiboon; K. Schindler; D. Kuhn; W. Wiesemann 

SIAM Journal on Optimization. 2019. Vol. 29, num. 2, p. 1211 – 1239. DOI : 10.1137/17M1150670.

Moral Hazard and Financial Crises: Evidence from American Troop Deployments

M. Aklin; A. Kern 

International Studies Quarterly. 2019. Vol. 63, num. 1, p. 15 – 29. DOI : 10.1093/isq/sqy047.

The Advent of the Sharing Culture and its Effect on Product Pricing

M. Razeghian; T. A. Weber 

Electronic Commerce Research and Applications. 2019. Vol. 33, p. 100801. DOI : 10.1016/j.elerap.2018.06.001.

Conference Papers

Learning Positive Functions with Pseudo Mirror Descent

Y. Yang; H. Wang; N. Kiyavash; N. He 

2019. 33rd Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2019), Vancouver, December 8-14, 2019. p. 14144 – .

Managerial challenges of co-creation and social innovation: the case of Dokk1

A. Solidoro; C. I. Caldarusa; G. Viscusi 

2019. 35th Colloquium of the European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS 2019), Edinburgh, UK, Jul 04, 2019 – Jul 06, 2019.

Learning Hawkes Processes Under Synchronization Noise

W. Trouleau; J. Etesami; M. Grossglauser; N. Kiyavash; P. Thiran 

2019. 36th International Conference on Machine Learning, Long Beach, California, USA, June 9-15, 2019. p. 6325 – .

Analysis of a Canonical Labeling Algorithm for the Alignment of Correlated Erdős-Rényi Graphs

O. E. Dai; D. Cullina; N. Kiyavash; M. Grossglauser 

2019. Joint International Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems – SIGMETRICS ’19, Phoenix, AZ, USA, June, 2019. p. 36:1 – 36:25. DOI : 10.1145/3326151.

Database Alignment with Gaussian Features

O. E. Dai; D. Cullina; N. Kiyavash 

2019. AISTATS, Naha, Okinawa, Japan, April 16-18, 2019. p. 3225 – 3233.

Counting and Sampling from Markov Equivalent DAGs Using Clique Trees

A. E. Ghassami; S. Salehkaleybar; N. Kiyavash; K. Zhang 

2019. Thirty-Third AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence – AAAI 2019, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, January 27 – February 1, 2019. p. 3664 – 3671. DOI : 10.1609/aaai.v33i01.33013664.

From Public Value to Social Value of Digital Government: Co-Creation and Social Innovation in European Union Initiatives

A. Halmos; G. Misuraca; G. Viscusi 

2019. 52nd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS 2019), Maui, Hawaii, January 8-11, 2019.

Evolution of Topics and Novelty in Science

O. Ballester; O. Penner 

2019. 17th International Conference of the International-Society-for-Scientometrics-and-Informetrics (ISSI) on Scientometrics and Informetrics, Rome, ITALY, Sep 02-05, 2019. p. 1606 – 1611.

Empower or Thwart? Insights from Vienna and Helsinki regarding the role of public authorities in the development of MaaS schemes

M. Audouin; M. Finger 

2019. International Scientific Conference on Mobility and Transport (Mobil.TUM), Munich, GERMANY, Jun 13-14, 2018. p. 6 – 16. DOI : 10.1016/j.trpro.2019.09.003.

Five Management Pillars for Digital Transformation Integrating the Lean Thinking Philosophy

D. Romero; M. Flores; M. Herrera; H. Resendez 

2019. 25th IEEE International Conference on Engineering, Technology and Innovation / 25th ICE/IEEE International Technology Management Conference (ITMC), FRANCE, Jun 17-19, 2019. DOI : 10.1109/ICE.2019.8792650.

Optimistic Distributionally Robust Optimization for Nonparametric Likelihood Approximation

V. A. Nguyen; S. Shafieezadeh Abadeh; M-C. Yue; D. Kuhn; W. Wiesemann 

2019. 33rd Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), Vancouver, Canada, December 8-14, 2019.

Calculating Optimistic Likelihoods Using (Geodesically) Convex Optimization

V. A. Nguyen; S. Shafieezadeh Abadeh; M-C. Yue; D. Kuhn; W. Wiesemann 

2019. Neural Information Processing Systems, Vancouver, Canada, December 8-14, 2019.

Introduction to the Minitrack on Strategy, Information, Technology, Economics, and Society (SITES)

R. Kauffman; T. A. Weber 

2019. 52nd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Grand Wailea, Hawaii, US, January 8 – 11, 2019. DOI : 10.24251/hicss.2019.788.

Dynamic Learning in Markets: Pricing, Advertising, and Information Acquisition

T. A. Weber 

2019. 52nd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Honolulu, Hawaii, January 8-11, 2019. DOI : 10.24251/HICSS.2019.794.

Reviews

Special Section: Social Influence and Networked Business Interaction

R. Kauffman; T. A. Weber 

Journal of Management Information Systems. 2019. Vol. 36, num. 4, p. 1040—1042. DOI : 10.1080/07421222.2019.1661086.

Theses

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

C. M. Aouinait / D. Foray (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2019. 

Policy analysis during socio-technical energy transitions: three essays on the Swiss electricity sector

P. A. Van Baal / M. Finger (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2019. 

Towards Mobility-as-a-Service: a cross-case analysis of public authorities’ roles in the development of ICT-supported integrated mobility schemes

M. U. J. Audouin / M. Finger (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2019. 

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

F. Liechti / M. Finger (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2019. 

A Digital Platform connecting Academia and Small Businesses: An opportunity for Knowledge Management Experiments

Q. A. Cavillier / P. Wieser (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2019. 

Adversarial Analytics

V. A. Nguyen / D. Kuhn (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2019. 

Book Chapters

For What It’s Worth: A Multi-industry Survey on Current and Expected Use of Big Data Technologies

E. Rossi; C. Rubattino; G. Viscusi 

Information Systems – 15th European, Mediterranean, and Middle Eastern Conference, EMCIS 2018, Limassol, Cyprus, October 4-5, 2018, Proceedings; Springer International Publishing, 2019.

Wasserstein Distributionally Robust Optimization: Theory and Applications in Machine Learning

D. Kuhn; P. Mohajerin Esfahani; V. A. Nguyen; S. Shafieezadeh Abadeh 

Operations Research & Management Science in the Age of Analytics; 2019. p. 130 – 166.

Reports

Global Progress in Electrification

M. Aklin 

2019

Posters

Crowd Dynamics and Crowd Capital: Insights from Five Years of contests in Higher Education

G. Viscusi; C. Tucci 

Collective Intelligence 2019 (CI2019), Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA, June 13-14, 2019.

A method for improving ideas selection in crowdsourcing

R. Bonazzi; G. Viscusi 

14th International Conference on Design Science Research in Information Systems and Technology (DESRIST2019), Worcester, MA, US, June 4-June 6, 2019.

Talks

Crowd dynamics, Co-creation, and Values in technology innovation: A case study in robotics infrastructures

G. Viscusi 

International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS) 2019, Munich, Germany, December 15-18, 2019.

Digital Governance Drivers and Challenges for Resilience in AI-Driven Innovation of Public Sector

G. Misuraca; G. Viscusi 

2019 Pre-ICIS Workshop on e-Government – Critical Questions in Public Sector IT: Outlining a Collaborative Research Agenda, Co-sponsored by AIS SIG eGovernment and The Digital Government Society, Munich, Germany, December 15, 2019.

Crowd Dynamics in Internal Crowdsourcing: Insights From Challenges in Management Higher Education

G. Viscusi; C. Tucci 

Strategic Management Society 39th Annual Conference (SMS2019), Minneapolis, USA, October 19-22, 2019.

Crowd dynamics, Co-creation, and Values in technology innovation: a case study in robotics

G. Viscusi 

4S 2019 New Orleans. Innovations, Interruptions, Regenerations. Society for Social Studies of Science Annual Meeting, New Orleans, USA, September 4-7, 2019.

2018

Journal Articles

Business Models and Complexity

L. Massa; G. Viscusi; C. Tucci 

Journal of Business Models. 2018. Vol. 6, num. 1, p. 59 – 71. DOI : 10.5278/ojs.jbm.v6i1.2579.

Articulating natural resources and sustainable development goals through green economy indicators: A systematic analysis

A. Merino-Saum; M. G. Baldi; I. Gunderson; B. Oberle 

Resources Conservation And Recycling. 2018. Vol. 139, p. 90 – 103. DOI : 10.1016/j.resconrec.2018.07.007.

Translating Science Into Business Innovation: The Case of Open Food and Nutrition Data Hackathons

C. Tucci; G. Viscusi; H. C. Gautschi 

Frontiers in Nutrition. 2018. Vol. 5, num. 96, p. 1 – 6. DOI : 10.3389/fnut.2018.00096.

A Brief Primer On Data Visualization Opportunities In Management Research

G. Ertug; M. Gruber; A. Nyberg; H. K. Steensma 

Academy Of Management Journal. 2018. Vol. 61, num. 5, p. 1613 – 1625. DOI : 10.5465/amj.2018.4005.

The Impact of the European Emission Trading Scheme on Multiple Measures of Economic Performance

G. Marin; M. Marino; C. Pellegrin 

Environmental & Resource Economics. 2018. Vol. 71, num. 2, p. 551 – 582. DOI : 10.1007/s10640-017-0173-0.

Optimal Information Collection Policies in a Markov Decision Process Framework

L. E. Cipriano; J. D. Goldhaber-Fiebert; S. Liu; T. A. Weber 

Medical Decision Making. 2018. Vol. 38, num. 7, p. 797 – 809. DOI : 10.1177/0272989X18793401.

University technology transfer office business models: One size does not fit all

D. Baglieri; F. Baldi; C. L. Tucci 

Technovation. 2018. Vol. 76-77, p. 51 – 63. DOI : 10.1016/j.technovation.2018.05.003.

Digital Information Asset Evaluation: A Case Study in Manufacturing

C. Batini; M. Castelli; G. Viscusi; C. Cappiello; C. Francalanci 

ACM SIGMIS Database: the DATABASE for Advances in Information Systems. 2018. Vol. 49, num. 3, p. 19 – 33. DOI : 10.1145/3242734.3242737.

The development of Mobility-as-a-Service in the Helsinki metropolitan area: A multi-level governance analysis

M. Audouin; M. Finger 

Research In Transportation Business And Management. 2018. Vol. 27, p. 24 – 35. DOI : 10.1016/j.rtbm.2018.09.001.

Roles of inventory and reserve capacity in mitigating supply chain disruption risk

F. C. M. Lücker; R. W. Seifert; I. Biçer 

International Journal of Production Research. 2018. Vol. 57, num. 4, p. 1238 – 1249. DOI : 10.1080/00207543.2018.1504173.

Optimal replenishment cycle for perishable items facing demand uncertainty in a two-echelon inventory system

M. Kırcı; I. Biçer; R. W. Seifert 

International Journal of Production Research. 2018. Vol. 57, num. 4, p. 1250 – 1264. DOI : 10.1080/00207543.2018.1504244.

Smart specialization strategies as a case of mission-oriented policy – a case study on the emergence of new policy practices

D. Foray 

Industrial and Corporate Change. 2018. Vol. 27, num. 5, p. 817 – 832. DOI : 10.1093/icc/dty030.

Smart specialization strategies and industrial modernization in European regions – theory and practice

D. Foray 

Cambridge Journal of Economics. 2018. Vol. 42, num. 6, p. 1505 – 1520. DOI : 10.1093/cje/bey022.

Competitive Pressure on the Rate and Scope of Innovation

K. Younge; T. Tong 

Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. 2018. Vol. 150, p. 162 – 181. DOI : 10.1016/j.jebo.2018.03.026.

Data-Driven Distributionally Robust Optimization Using the Wasserstein Metric: Performance Guarantees and Tractable Reformulations

P. Mohajerin Esfahani; D. Kuhn 

Mathematical Programming. 2018. Vol. 171, num. 1-2, p. 115 – 166. DOI : 10.1007/s10107-017-1172-1.

Econometric evidence on the depreciation of innovations

G. de Rassenfosse; A. Jaffe 

EUROPEAN ECONOMIC REVIEW. 2018. Vol. 101, p. 625 – 642. DOI : 10.1016/j.euroecorev.2017.11.005.

Heuristic policies for the stochastic economic lot sizing problem with remanufacturing under service level constraints

O. Kilic; H. Tunc; S. Tarim 

EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF OPERATIONAL RESEARCH. 2018. Vol. 267, num. 3, p. 1102 – 1109. DOI : 10.1016/j.ejor.2017.12.041.

The “Global Arctic” as a New Geopolitical Context and Method

L. Heininen; M. Finger 

JOURNAL OF BORDERLANDS STUDIES. 2018. Vol. 33, num. 2, p. 199 – 202. DOI : 10.1080/08865655.2017.1315605.

THE ROLE OF TEAMS IN ACADEMIC SPIN-OFFS

A. Nikiforou; T. Zabara; B. Clarysse; M. Gruber 

ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT PERSPECTIVES. 2018. Vol. 32, num. 1, p. 78 – 103. DOI : 10.5465/amp.2016.0148.

Robust auction design under multiple priors by linear and integer programming

Ç. Koçyiğit; H. I. Bayrak; M. Ç. Pınar 

Annals of Operations Research. 2018. Vol. 260, num. 1-2, p. 233 – 253. DOI : 10.1007/s10479-017-2416-4.

Innovation complementarities and firm growth

S. Bianchini; G. Pellegrino; F. Tamagni 

INDUSTRIAL AND CORPORATE CHANGE. 2018. Vol. 27, num. 4, p. 657 – 676. DOI : 10.1093/icc/dty008.

A time to nourish? Evaluating the impact of public procurement on technological generality through patent data

E. Raiteri 

RESEARCH POLICY. 2018. Vol. 47, num. 5, p. 936 – 952. DOI : 10.1016/j.respol.2018.02.017.

Social acceptance of new energy technology in developing countries: A framing experiment in rural India

M. Aklin; C-Y. Cheng; J. Urpelainen 

Energy Policy. 2018. Vol. 113, p. 466 – 477. DOI : 10.1016/j.enpol.2017.10.059.

Scenario-based system dynamics modeling for the cost recovery of new energy technology deployment: The case of smart metering roll-out

A. Dehdarian 

JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION. 2018. Vol. 178, p. 791 – 803. DOI : 10.1016/j.jclepro.2017.12.253.

Smart Governance for Smart Cities

M. Razaghi; M. Finger 

Proceedings of the IEEE. 2018. Vol. 106, num. 4, p. 680 – 689. DOI : 10.1109/JPROC.2018.2807784.

New Ways of Seeing: Radical Theorizing

S. Nadkarni; M. Gruber; K. DeCelles; B. Connelly; M. Baer 

Academy of Management Journal. 2018. Vol. 61, num. 2, p. 371 – 377. DOI : 10.5465/amj.2018.4002.

A Linear-Quadratic Gaussian Approach to Dynamic Information Acquisition

T. A. Weber; V. A. Nguyen 

European Journal of Operational Research. 2018. Vol. 270, num. 1, p. 260 – 281. DOI : 10.1016/j.ejor.2018.03.003.

Barriers to innovation in young and mature firms

G. Pellegrino 

Journal of Evolutionary Economics. 2018. Vol. 28, num. 1, p. 181 – 206. DOI : 10.1007/s00191-017-0538-0.

From Infinite to Finite Programs: Explicit Error Bounds with Applications to Approximate Dynamic Programming

P. Mohajerin Esfahani; T. Sutter; D. Kuhn; J. Lygeros 

SIAM Journal on Optimization. 2018. Vol. 28, num. 3, p. 1968 – 1998. DOI : 10.1137/17M1133087.

Decision Rule Bounds for Two-Stage Stochastic Bilevel Programs

I. Yanikoglu; D. Kuhn 

SIAM Journal on Optimization. 2018. Vol. 28, num. 1, p. 198 – 222. DOI : 10.1137/16M1098486.

Conic Programming Reformulations of Two-Stage Distributionally Robust Linear Programs over Wasserstein Balls

G. Hanasusanto; D. Kuhn 

Operations Research. 2018. Vol. 66, num. 3, p. 849 – 869. DOI : 10.1287/opre.2017.1698.

Data-Driven Inverse Optimization with Incomplete Information

P. Mohajerin Esfahani; S. Shafieezadeh Abadeh; G. A. Hanasusanto; D. Kuhn 

Mathematical Programming. 2018. Vol. 167, num. 1, p. 191 – 234. DOI : 10.1007/s10107-017-1216-6.

Population-Level Intervention and Information Collection in Dynamic Healthcare Policy

L. E. Cipriano; T. A. Weber 

Health Care Management Science. 2018. Vol. 21, num. 4, p. 604 – 631. DOI : 10.1007/s10729-017-9415-5.

Chebyshev Inequalities for Products of Random Variables

N. Rujeerapaiboon; D. Kuhn; W. Wiesemann 

Mathematics of Operations Research. 2018. Vol. 43, num. 3, p. 887 – 918. DOI : 10.1287/moor.2017.0888.

How robust is the renewable energy industry to political shocks? Evidence from the 2016 U.S. elections

M. Aklin 

Business and Politics. 2018. Vol. 20, num. 4, p. 523 – 552. DOI : 10.1017/bap.2018.15.

A global analysis of progress in household electrification

M. Aklin; S. Harish; J. Urpelainen 

Energy Policy. 2018. Vol. 122, p. 421 – 428. DOI : 10.1016/j.enpol.2018.07.018.

Are patent fees effective at weeding out low-quality patents?

G. de Rassenfosse; A. B. Jaffe 

Journal of Economics & Management Strategy. 2018. Vol. 27, num. 1, p. 134 – 148. DOI : 10.1111/jems.12219.

Economics of household technology adoption in developing countries: Evidence from solar technology adoption in rural India

M. Aklin; P. Bayer; S. Harish; J. Urpelainen 

Energy Economics. 2018. Vol. 72, p. 35 – 46. DOI : 10.1016/j.eneco.2018.02.011.

Geography, community, household: Adoption of distributed solar power across India

M. Aklin; C-y. Cheng; J. Urpelainen 

Energy for Sustainable Development. 2018. Vol. 42, p. 54 – 63. DOI : 10.1016/j.esd.2017.09.010.

Conference Papers

Text Similarity in Vector Space Models: A Comparative Study

O. Shahmirzadi; A. Lugowski; K. Younge 

2018. IEEE-ICMLA (18th International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications 2019), Boca Raton, Florida, USA, December 16-19, 2019. p. 659 – 666. DOI : 10.1109/ICMLA.2019.00120.

Understanding the Social Implications of the Digital Transformation: Insights from Four Case Studies on the Role of Social Innovation to Foster Resilience of Society, Electronic Participation

G. Misuraca; G. Pasi; G. Viscusi 

2018. Electronic Participation. ePart 2018, Krems, Austria, September 3-5, 2018. p. 145 – 156. DOI : 10.1007/978-3-319-98578-7_12.

Social Innovation and Resilience: exploring the dynamics and impacts on the digital transformation of governance & society

G. Misuraca; G. Pasi; G. Viscusi 

2018. 11th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance (ICEGOV2018), Galway, Ireland, April 04 – 06, 2018. p. 91 – 100. DOI : 10.1145/3209415.3209488.

You Talking to Me? The TED digital infrastructure as a Recognition Device

H. Gautschi; G. Viscusi 

2018. AOM Specialized Conference on Big Data and Managing in a Digital Economy, University of Surrey, UK, April 18-20, 2018.

Decision Fusion Of Spot6 And Multitemporal Sentinel2 Images For Urban Area Detection

C. Wendl; A. Le Bris; N. Chehata; A. Puissant; T. Postadjian 

2018. 38th IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), Valencia, SPAIN, Jul 22-27, 2018. p. 1734 – 1737. DOI : 10.1109/IGARSS.2018.8517476.

The Construction Value Chain in a BIM Environment

M. Flores; A. Al-Ashaab; O. Morth; P. C. Uso; H. Pinar et al. 

2018. IFIP WG 5.7 International Conference on Advances in Production Management Systems (APMS), Seoul, SOUTH KOREA, Aug 26-30, 2018. p. 255 – 262. DOI : 10.1007/978-3-319-99707-0_32.

What Regulations For Ict-Based Mobility Services In Urban Transportation Systems? The Cases Of Ride-Booking Regulation In Sao-Paulo And Rio De Janeiro

M. Audouin; C. Neves 

2018. 23rd International Conference on Urban Transport and the Environment, Rome, ITALY, Sep 05-07, 2016. p. 95 – 106. DOI : 10.2495/UT170091.

Awareness Towards Industry 4.0: Key Enablers and Applications for Internet of Things and Big Data

M. Flores; D. Maklin; M. Golob; A. Al-Ashaab; C. Tucci 

2018. 19th IFIP Working Conference on Virtual Enterprises (PRO-VE 2018), Cardiff, WALES, Sep 17-19, 2018. p. 377 – 386. DOI : 10.1007/978-3-319-99127-6_32.

The Dynamics of Asset Sharing and Private Use

T. A. Weber 

2018. Proceedings of the 51st Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. DOI : 10.24251/HICSS.2018.649.

Paradoxical Chaos-Like Chattering In The Bouncing Ball System

K. Schindler; R. I. Leine 

2018. ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences (IDETC) / Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (CIE), Quebec City, CANADA, Aug 26-29, 2018. DOI : 10.1115/DETC2018-85202.

Wasserstein Distributionally Robust Kalman Filtering

S. Shafieezadeh Abadeh; V. A. Nguyen; D. Kuhn; P. Mohajerin Esfahani 

2018. Neural Information Processing Systems, Montréal, Canada, December 2-8, 2018.

On Risk Reduction in Kelly Betting Using the Conservative Expected Value

N. Rujeerapaiboon; B. R. Barmish; D. Kuhn 

2018. 57th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Miami Beach, Florida, USA, December 17-19, 2018. p. 5801 – 5806. DOI : 10.1109/CDC.2018.8619186.

Introduction to the Minitrack on Strategy, Information, Technology, Economics, and Society (SITES)

R. Kauffman; T. A. Weber; E. Clemons; R. Dewan 

2018. 51st Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Maui, Hawaii, January 8–11, 2019. DOI : 10.24251/HICSS.2018.643.

Reviews

Special Section: The Digital Transformation of Vertical Organizational Relationships

R. Kauffman; T. A. Weber 

Journal of Management Information Systems. 2018. Vol. 35, num. 3, p. 837 – 839. DOI : 10.1080/07421222.2018.1481646.

Books

Economie de la Connaissance

D. Foray 

Paris: La Découverte Repères, 2018.

Creating and Capturing Value through Crowdsourcing

A. Afuah 

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018.

Renewables: the politics of a global energy transition

M. Aklin; J. Urpelainen 

Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 2018.

Escaping the energy poverty trap: when and how governments power the lives of the poor

 

Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2018.

Theses

For Their Own Good and For the Good of Others: Identity Duality in New Venture Evaluation and Investor Decision-Making

N. D. Pan / M. Gruber (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2018. 

Three methodological contributions towards modelling endogenous policy-emergence in societal transitions

R. Verhoog / M. Finger (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2018. 

IT Investment and its impacts : does IT matter during crisis, during financing and in Innovation?

S. Hasan / C. Tucci (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2018. 

Routines and Practices in Cross-boundary Creative Projects

G. Baldessarelli / C. Tucci (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2018. 

Book Chapters

System Dynamics Simulation to Explore the Impact of Low European Electricity Prices on Swiss Generation Capacity Investments

R. Verhoog; P. van Baal; M. Finger 

Energy Economy, Finance and Geostrategy; Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2018.

Three’s a Crowd?

G. Viscusi; C. Tucci 

Creating and Capturing Value through Crowdsourcing; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018.

Natural resources and the resource – based view

B. L. Bastian; C. Tucci; U. Richter 

Managing Natural Resources: Organizational Strategy, Behaviour, and Dynamics; Cheltenham: Elgar, 2018.

International Relations Theories and Climate Change Politics

M. Aklin 

Global climate policy : actors, concepts, and enduring challenges; Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2018.

Working Papers

Exploring the diversity of social preferences: Is a heterogeneous population evolutionarily stable under assortative matching?

C. C. Ayoubi; B. Thurm 

2018

Posters

Crowd Dynamics in Small Teams in Higher Education

G. Viscusi; C. Tucci 

The 6th Collective Intelligence Conference (CI2018), Zurich, Switzerland, July 7-8, 2018..

Media

Middle-Income Countries Big Winner from Off-Grid Energy. Who’s Next?

M. Aklin 

2018.

Six Nuclear Reactors Worth of Off-Grid Renewable Energy Deployed in Last 10 Years – But Sub-Saharan Africa Lagging

M. Aklin 

2018.

Taking part, not winning, counts most in grant applications

C. C. Ayoubi; M. Pezzoni; F. Visentin 

2018.

How India’s impressive electrification compares with South Asian nations

M. Aklin 

2018.

2017

Journal Articles

Building up Resilience in a Pharmaceutical Supply Chain through Inventory, Dual Sourcing and Agility Capacity

F. Lucker; R. W. Seifert 

Omega-International Journal Of Management Science. 2017. Vol. 73, p. 114 – 124. DOI : 10.1016/j.omega.2017.01.001.

A test of inventory models with permissible delay in payment

D. Seifert; R. W. Seifert; O. H. D. Isaksson 

International Journal Of Production Research. 2017. Vol. 55, num. 4, p. 1117 – 1128. DOI : 10.1080/00207543.2016.1224947.

How Process Industries Can Improve Supply Chain Performance

P. U. Moser; O. Isaksson; R. Seifert 

Supply Chain Quarterly. 2017. Vol. 3, num. 3.

Inventory dynamics in process industries: An empirical investigation

P. Moser; O. H. D. Isaksson; R. W. Seifert 

International Journal Of Production Economics. 2017. Vol. 191, p. 253 – 266. DOI : 10.1016/j.ijpe.2017.06.019.

Benefits of working capital sharing in supply chains

M. Protopappa-Sieke; R. W. Seifert 

Journal Of The Operational Research Society. 2017. Vol. 68, num. 5, p. 521 – 532. DOI : 10.1057/s41274-016-0009-2.

Commercialization Strategy and IPO Underpricing

S. Morricone; F. Munari; R. Oriani; G. De Rassenfosse 

Research Policy. 2017. Vol. 46, num. 6, p. 1133 – 1141. DOI : 10.1016/j.respol.2017.04.006.

Reviving demand-pull perspectives: The effect of demand uncertainty and stagnancy on R&D strategy

J. Garcia-Quevedo; G. Pellegrino; M. Savona 

Cambridge Journal Of Economics. 2017. Vol. 41, num. 4, p. 1087 – 1122. DOI : 10.1093/cje/bew042.

Entrepreneurial advice sources and their antecedents Venture stage, innovativeness and internationalization

B. L. Bastian; C. L. Tucci 

Journal Of Enterprising Communities-People And Places Of Global Economy. 2017. Vol. 11, num. 2, p. 214 – 236. DOI : 10.1108/Jec-03-2015-0023.

An assessment of how well we account for intangibles

G. De Rassenfosse 

Industrial And Corporate Change. 2017. Vol. 26, num. 3, p. 517 – 534. DOI : 10.1093/icc/dtw034.

Optimal Dynamic Order Scheduling Under Capacity Constraints Given Demand-forecast Evolution

I. Bicer; R. Seifert 

Production and Operations Management. 2017. Vol. 26, num. 12, p. 2266 – 2286. DOI : 10.1111/poms.12759.

R&D Team Diversity and Performance in Hypercompetitive Environment

K. Hoisl; M. Gruber; A. Conti 

Strategic Management Journal. 2017. Vol. 38, num. 7, p. 1455 – 1477. DOI : 10.1002/smj.2577.

Entrepreneurial Behavior: A Reconceptualization and Extension Based on Identity Theory

M. Gruber; I. C. Macmillan 

Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal. 2017. Vol. 11, num. 3, p. 271 – 286. DOI : 10.1002/sej.1262.

Platformed! Network Industries and the New Digital Paradigm

M. Finger; J. Montero 

Competition and Regulation in Network Industries. 2017. Vol. 17, num. 3-4, p. 217 – 239. DOI : 10.1177/1783591718782310.

Conceptualizing Smart Cities

M. Finger; M. Razaghi 

Informatik-Spektrum. 2017. Vol. 40, num. 1, p. 6 – 13. DOI : 10.1007/s00287-016-1002-5.

Conference Papers

A heterogeneous evolutionary stable population under assortative matching: Exploring the diversity of preferences

C. C. Ayoubi; B. Thurm 

2017. Gerzensee Alumni Conference, Study Center Gerzensee, December 5, 2017.

Digital transformation and open innovation ecosystems in the tilm industry: the case of the Movieday platform

A. Solidoro; G. Viscusi; C. Tucci 

2017. 4th Annual World Open Innovation Conference (WOIC2017), San Francisco, CA, USA, December 14 -15, 2017.

Crowd organizations: towards a definition

J. Pereira; G. Viscusi; C. L. Tucci 

2017. DOI : 10.5465/AMBPP.2017.14424abstract.

Performance versus Risk in a Food Supply Chain

S. L. Voldrich; P. Wieser; N. Zufferey 

2017. Prolog Conference, La Rochelle, May 11-12, 2017.

Getting Emotional: A Study of Emotions in Routines in Inter-firm Design Projects

G. Baldessarelli 

2017. EGOS – European Group for Organizational Studies, Copenhagen, Denmark, 6-8 July 2017.

Getting Emotional: A Study of Emotions in Routines in Inter-firm Design Projects

G. Baldessarelli 

2017. DRUID Conference, New York University – Stern School of Business, 12-14 June 2017.

The open innovation research landscape: established perspectives and emerging themes across different levels of analysis

M. Bogers; A-K. Zobel; A. Afuah; E. Almirall; S. Brunswicker et al. 

2017. Open Innovation and Business Model Workshop, Cass Business Sch, London, ENGLAND, JUN 07-08, 2016. p. 8 – 40. DOI : 10.1080/13662716.2016.1240068.

Books

Air transport liberalization: a critical assessment

S. Barrett; M. Baumgartner; P. Berster; V. Bilotkach; K. Button et al. 

Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2017.

Information Technology Governance in Public Organizations

 

Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2017.

Where to Play: 3 steps for discovering your most valuable market opportunities

M. Gruber; S. Tal 

FT Publishing International, 2017.

Theses

Improving firm performance through sustainable operations

M. Kirci / R. Seifert (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2017. 

Environmental innovation, policy and economic performance

C. Pellegrin / D. Foray (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2017. 

Diving into the dynamics of product evolution : analyzing technological discontinuities during the era of incremental change and cognitive convergence on a dominant design

O. Waeber / C. Tucci (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2017. 

Three Essays on Methodologies for Dynamic Modeling of Emerging Socio-technical Systems : The Case of Smart Grid Development

M. A. Dehdarian / C. Tucci (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2017. 

Book Chapters

Open Innovation: An emerging and inc reasingly important topic

C. Tucci 

Europe’s Future: Open Innovation, Open Science, Open to the World; Brussels: European Commission, 2017.

Working Papers

Hybrid organizations influence on market competitive dynamics: the Azorean case

J. Pereira 

2017

Posters

Crowd Dynamics and Crowd Capital in Small Teams: Insights from three crowdsourcing exercises in higher education

C. Tucci; G. Viscusi 

5th Collective Intelligence Conference, New York University’s Tandon School of Engineering, New York, US, June 15-16, 2017.

Talks

Quantified Cars: An exploration of the position of ICT start-ups vs. car manufacturers towards digital car services and sustainable business models

C. Kaiser; A. Stocker; G. Viscusi; A. Festl; P. Mörtl et al. 

2nd International Conference on New Business Models (NBM2017), Graz, Austria, June 21-22, 2017.

Open Innovation in the Public Sector: Review and Integration of the Management and Public Administration Literatures

D. Poulin; C. Tucci; G. Viscusi 

14th Scandinavian Workshop on E-Government (SWEG), Sundsvall, Sweden, February 1-2.2017.

Media

Off-grid power not a silver bullet for rural India

M. Aklin 

2017.

Off-grid solar power and the future of rural electrification in India

M. Aklin; P. Bayer; S. Harish; J. Urpelainen 

2017.

Policy Briefs