Financial intermediary institutions often compete and cooperate with each other at the same time. These financial actors provide services to their investors, and enter into transactions with them. Moreover, these players very often trade with each other to mitigate their market risks related to their exposures against their clients. Decentralized inter-dealer markets differ from the Walrasian t...

Any payment which uses mobile device as payment method is called M-payment whether it is proximity or remote and online or point of sale. Since it has been identified that mobile phone is everywhere and everpresent essential consumer device, and could be used for payment offline or online, Mobile payment has been hyped significantly. However early market adoption is facing some challenges and i...

We examine the effect of player-transfers entered into by football clubs owned, or financed, individuals who are key players in oil market on abnormal returns futures. In oil-financed clubs, sums expended buying frequently far exceeds amount received from selling player-transfer market. find that order to finance these deficits market, owners act opportunistically withholding supply, resulting ...

This research investigates models for engaging private sector investors and developers in financing or delivering social affordable housing, across different market segments tenures Australia internationally. It also identifies key existing potential players, financial, regulatory, development barriers to wider participation.

IP-telephony has been presented as a technology which can replace existing fixed-line services and disrupt the telecommunications industry by offering new low priced services. This study investigates the diffusion of IP-telephony in Denmark by focusing on vendors’ commercialisation strategies. The theory of disruptive innovation is introduced to investigate vendors’ perceptions about IP telepho...

With the increasing use of different types of auctions in market designing, modeling of participants’ behaviors to evaluate the market structure is one of the main discussions in the studies related to the deregulated power industries. In this article, we apply an approach of the optimal bidding behavior to the Iran wholesale electricity market as a restructured electric power industry and mode...