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Super-extreme event's influence on a Weierstrass-Mandelbrot Continuous-Time Random Walk
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The Economies of Scale in the French Power Distribution Utilities
(2010)CEPE Working PaperThis paper analyzes the cost structure of the French electricity distribution sector prior to the re-structuring reforms that have been initiated in 2005 and gradually implemented in the form of re-grouping certain activities across distribution units. The aim of this study is to assess the empirical evidence in support of these re-structuring measures. We explore the cost structure of the distribution units operating in France over the ...Working Paper -
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Money Makers as Peace Makers?
(2010)Swisspeace Working PapersSince the end of cold war, mediation processes have become more and more complex. Today, peace mediation includes a variety of actors, ranging from states, international organizations, NGOs to the private sector. Despite a growing number of practical examples for business engagement in conflict transformation, there are only a few insights into the contributions of business actors to mediation processes. Thus, the aim of this working paper ...Report -
Outcomes and Determinants of Success of a Performance Payment Scheme for Carnivore Conservation
(2010)CERE working paperThis paper presents a first empirical assessment of the outcomes and determinants of carnivore conservation success in Sweden’s pioneer performance payment scheme. Carnivores in northern Sweden depend on reindeer as prey which causes conflicts with reindeer herders. As compensation and conservation incentive, the government issues performance payments to reindeer herder villages based on the number of carnivore offspring certified on their ...Working Paper -
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GDB: Group Distance Bounding Protocols
(2010)Secure distance bounding (DB) protocols allow one entity, the verifier, to securely obtain an upper-bound on the distance to another entity, the prover. Thus far, DB was considered mostly in the context of a single prover and a single verifier. There has been no substantial prior work on secure DB in group settings, where a set of provers interact with a set of verifiers. The need for group distance bounding (GDB) is motivated by many ...Working Paper -
From Low-Distortion Norm Embeddings to Explicit Uncertainty Relations and Efficient Information Locking
(2010)arXivWorking Paper