We analyzed patterns of sand deposit distribution on the reef platform, and documented relationships between sand deposits and reef morphology. Sand deposit patterns, the surrounding morphology, and the environments they are located in are best understood using a combination of statisitics, GIS software, spatial analysis tools, and analyst interpretation. The work consisted of several steps inc...

This paper analyzes the investment decisions of insured banks under fixed-rate deposit insurance. The model takes into account the charter value and allows banks to dynamically revise their asset portfolios. Trade-offs exist between preserving the charter and exploiting deposit insurance. The optimal bank portfolio problem is solved analytically for a constant charter value. In any audit period...

the gheshlagh bauxite deposit is located 110 km southeast of gorgan. the deposit has been developed as a stratiform horizon with more than 2 km length and a thickness of about 25 m along the contact of ruteh and elika carbonate formations. textural analysis indicates both allochthonous and autochtonous origins for the bauxites. bohemite, diaspore, anatase, rutile, hematite, goethite, kaolinite,...

Significant industrial facilities typically operate a steam system with multiple generators (or boilers) that are potentially vulnerable to under deposit corrosion (UDC). This mechanism begins the deposition of porous layer magnetite particles on waterside heat transfer surfaces. Beneath this layer, wick-boiling causes concentration contaminants (such as chlorides) until exceeds some critical t...

We re-examine the relationship between the degree of deposit market competition and bank risk taking in a model where banks compete in differentiated deposit services. When banks invest their deposits directly, as has already been established in the extant literature, an increased degree of competition, measured either by greater degree of substitutability or by greater number of banks, induces...

Behavioral economic-based interventions are emerging as powerful tools to help individuals accomplish their own goals, including weight loss. Deposit contract incentive systems give participants the opportunity to put their money down toward losing weight, which they forfeit if they fail to lose weight; lottery incentive systems enable participants to win money if they attain weight loss goals....

Many recent institutional reforms of the financial system have relied on the introduction of an explicit scheme of Deposit Insurance. This instrument aims at two main targets, contributing to systemic stability and protecting depositors. However it may also affect the interest rate spread in the banking system, which can be viewed as an indicator of market power in this financial segment. This ...

In nascent markets with relatively immature institutions, do depositors have the capacity to discipline banks with poor fundamentals? If so, what information specifically guides their response? Using a database from post-communist, pre-deposit-insurance Russia, we present evidence for quantity-based sanctioning of weaker banks by both firms and households, particularly after the 1998 financial ...