Profit rate stickiness means the asymmetric behavior of banking profit rate with respect to positive and negative shocks. Scrutinizing this behavior would suggest a new perspective on policy tools and banking supervision. In this regard, this paper applies hidden panel cointegration, proposed by Hatemi-J (2018), to study profit rate and bank specific characteristics nexus for all banks listed o...

We estimate the CIMS sensitivity for the hydroxyhydroperoxides (ISOPOOH) and hydroperoxyaldehydes (HPALD) from the ion-molecule collision rate, calculated using the parameterization of Su and Chesnavich [1]. This requires knowledge of the average dipole moment and polarizibility of the neutral species. We obtain these parameters for the species of interest from ab initio calulations. For accura...

An algorithm is presented for the computation of analytical expressions for the extremal values of the α-cuts of the fuzzy weighted average, for triangular or trapeizoidal weights and attributes. Also, an algorithm for the computation of the inverses of these expressions is given, providing exact membership functions of the fuzzy weighted average. Up to now, only algorithms exist for the comput...

Let G be a given connected graph on n vertices. Suppose N facilities are located in the vertices of the graph. We consider the expected distance between two randomly chosen facilities. This is modelled by the following definition: Let G be a connected graph and let each vertex have weight c(v). The average distance of G with respect to c is defined as µ c (G) = N 2 −1 {u,v}⊆V (G) d G (u, v), wh...

A lagged ensemble is an ensemble of forecasts from the same model initialized at different times but verifying at the same time. The skill of a lagged ensemble mean can be improved by assigning weights to different forecasts in such a way as to maximize skill. If the forecasts are bias corrected, then an unbiased weighted lagged ensemble requires the weights to sum to one. Such a scheme is call...