The purpose of this paper is to see whether and how G-10 banks have complied with the 1988 Basel Capital Accord. The interest of this study lies in the fact that the standardized approach of the New Basel Accord is similar to the 1988 agreement. However, very little is known about the reaction of non-US banks to the imposition of fixed minimum capital requirements. Building on previous studies,...

Can we detect the merger paradox in the year 1908 in Germany? An event-study method that uses daily returns in contrast to former historical research gives answers. The merger paradox is not confirmed by our data, and the adaptation process of stock prices according to newly available information is finished in a few days around the event. In addition, we use cumulated abnormal returns as depen...

Recently, numerous statistical machine translation models which can utilize various kinds of translation rules are proposed. In these models, not only the conventional syntactic rules but also the non-syntactic rules can be applied. Even the pure phrase rules are includes in some of these models. Although the better performances are reported over the conventional phrase model and syntax model, ...

We briefly discuss the latest ASCA results on the X–ray spectral properties of high-redshift radio-quiet quasars.

In this paper the simultaneous localization and mapping problem in an unknown indoor environment is addressed. A probabilistic approach based on FastSLAM algorithm and line feature map is described. Experimental results performed with a smart wheelchair in an indoor environment are introduced and discussed. Copyright IFAC 2006 c ©

In this paper we use nonparametric kernel density estimation techniques to develop a new class of smooth estimators for the parameters in SURE and simultaneous equations models. The eeciency property of the proposed estimators is also analysed. are thankful to H. L utkepohl and a referee for useful comments on the earlier version of this paper.

CDF and DØ detectors have already collected 1.3 fb−1 of data delivered by the Tevatron collider at 1.96 TeV center-of-mass energy. We present here the various analyses that are currently testing the possibility of a supersymmetric extension of the Standard Model. No evidence for such processes have been found in luminosities that range from 300 to 800 pb−1 and different limits on the different ...

Conventional work on scienti c discovery such as BACON derives empirical law equations from experimental data. In recent years, SDS introducing mathematical admissibility constraints has been proposed to discover rst principle based law equations, and it has been further extended to discover law equations from passively observed data. Furthermore, SSF has been proposed to discover the structure...

Pure methods and model fields are useful and common specification constructs that can be interpreted by the introduction of axioms in a program verifier’s underlying proof system. Care has to be taken that these axioms do not introduce an inconsistency into the proof system. This paper describes and proves sound an approach that ensures no inconsistencies are introduced. Unlike some previous sy...