the infrastructure of the electricity grid and super grid system in the hitherto industrialized world was to a large extent built up in the decades following world war ii with a peak in investments around 1960-1980. this means that the flotilla of power transformers is now starting to reach projected lifetime of around 40 years. during the last couple of decades there has also been an ongoing d...

now, on February 24th, 1888. He was then just convalescing from an attack of remittent fever for which he had been treated in the hospital of the Burmah Military Police, to which corps lie belonged. As the battalion of Burmah Police was leaving Lueknow for Burmah, he was left behind at the depot of the 12th Kelat-i-Ghilzi. On admission he was weak and generally pulled down from the effects of t...

The crisis of 2007–2008 was a crisis of collateral. Since then, financial market participants – particularly in the euro area and the United States – have shown an increased appetite for secured lending. In short-term bank funding markets, there has been a pronounced shift towards repurchase arrangements. And covered bonds have gained in popularity in long-term funding markets. The cyclical fli...