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Shunt capacitor banks are used to improve the quality of the electrical supply and the efficient operation of the power system. Studies show that a flat voltage profile on the system can significantly reduce line losses. Shunt capacitor banks are relatively inexpensive and can be easily installed anywhere on the network. This paper reviews principles of shunt capacitor bank design for substatio...

This study examines bank robberies across the fifty states and the District of Columbia for the decade of the 1990s. It was determined that bank robberies are positively associated with the ratio of police officers to population, and the unemployment rate. Bank robberies are also negatively associated with the poverty rates across states and over time. It was hypothesized that bank robberies we...

Venture capital (VC) improves the nation’s innovative capacity by making investments in early stage businesses that offer high potential but high risk. This paper is concerned with the venture investment fund programmes in Thailand. In particular, the study describes and analyses the VC management of the Small and Medium Enterprise Development Bank of Thailand (SME Bank), the bank set up to hel...

This paper considers a two-period model in which a firm needs outside financing in period 2. If a firm establishes a reputation with a bank already in the first period, it may reduce the cost and increase the availability of bank debt in the second period. To establish such a reputation, the firm must induce the bank to monitor in period 1. Bank monitoring effort is non-contractible, so the fir...

this research aimed at   applying servqual model to examine the relationship between mobile banking services and customer satisfaction. while the previous researchers had already examined the effect of qualities services on banking customer satisfaction, no previous study was done on mobile banking. thus, the current paper attempted to fill the gap in the literature by applying servqual model t...