Cooperation in Small Industrial and Banking Business

Banking Consolidation and Small Business Lending

4 Non-technical summary 5 1 Motivation 7 2 The model setup 9 3 Solving the model 12 3.1 The utility Bellman equations 12 3.2 Solving the Bellman equations 13 3.3 The contract offered 14 3.3.1 The Frankfurt policy 16 3.3.2 The London policy 17 3.4 Constrained optimal contract 18 4 An extension: centralization vs. decentralization 19 4.1 Centralized bank 19 4.2 Decentralized bank 20 4.3 Small ban...

Cooperation of human operator and small industrial robot

Cooperation between a small industrial robot and human operator is studied in this paper. To ensure safe human-robot interaction several safety features should be introduced into the industrial cell. Despite all the precautions undertaken the collision between robot and man can occur. In present study impact assessments of point robot end-effector with passive mechanical arm were carried out. T...

Cooperation in Industrial Systems

ARCHON is an ongoing ESPRIT II project (P-2256) which is approximately half way through its five year duration. It is concerned with defining and applying techniques from the area of Distributed Artificial Intelligence to the development of real-size industrial applications. Such techniques enable multiple problem solvers (e.g. expert systems, databases and conventional numerical software syste...

Italian Small Business Development Lessons for U . S . Industrial Policy

Assessing the profitability and riskiness of small business lenders in the banking industry

The opinions and recommendations of the authors of this study do not necessarily reflect official positions of the SBA or other agencies of the U.S. government. ii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The present report would not have been possible without the generous support of the U.S. Small Business Administration. In this regard, we would like to thank Dr. Charles Ou, Senior Economist, for technical advice and...