An efficient realization of a low delay filter−bank will be proposed, which can be regarded as a filter−bank used as equalizer with either fixed or time−varying spectral gain factors. The proposed filter−bank equalizer (FBE) results in a time−domain filter whose coefficients are adapted in the (short−term) spectral−domain. Perfect signal reconstruction is obtained for a broad class of spectral ...

This paper studies the impact of foreign bank entry on domestic firms’ access to bank credit using a within-country staggered geographic variation in the policy of foreign bank lending in China. The paper finds that after foreign bank entry profitable firms use more long-term bank loans; whereas firms with higher value of potential collateral do not. It also finds that non-state-owned firms bec...

The Cloud Bank model, which is derived from Grid bank [1], is a kind of commerce model of cloud computing that provides pay-as-you-go computing resources. In this model, Cloud Bank is an agent platform of resource transaction. Cloud computing uses the concept of service level agreement (S LA) to control the use and receipt of computing resources from, and by, Cloud Bank. As computing resources ...

This paper examines the association between government ownership and bank stability over 1997-2010 across a sample of 103 countries. With a continuous variable to proxy for government ownership, our system GMM estimates indicate that the association between government ownership and bank stability depends on a country’s economic development and regulatory quality. In developed, high income count...

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The regulatory framework in Europe does not prevent banks from taking large or controlling equity stakes in non-financial firms, potentially contributing to higher levels of bank risk and financial instability. Using a panel of European commercial banks for the period 2004-2008, we find that higher levels of equity positions in industrial firms and higher proportions of industrial firms where t...

Uniform filter bank approach can be considered to perform independent component analysis (ICA) for convolved mixtures. It achieves better separation performance than the frequency domain approach and gives faster convergence speed with less computational complexity than the time domain approach. However, when the uniform filter bank approach is applied to natural audio signals, for high frequen...