Constant pressure to increase return on assets has firms seeking ways to reduce their working capital costs. In the cash management area, firms are employing more sophisticated collection and disbursement systems. Cash management systems today efficiently speed up collections and, at the end of the day, sweep excess balances into money market accounts. Cash managers focus on finding the optimal...

We propose a novel neural network architecture to learn the task of clustering end-to-end: salient features for any similarity criterion specified through weakly labeled training data are extracted with an embedding network; during evaluation, the network groups similar data of any modality together, by assigning a probabalistic cluster index, and further gives a probabilistic estimate of the n...

In this thesis, I provide new insights in the field of asset pricing and portfolio optimization by investigating the role of information and factor decompositions. In particular, I investigate the effect of disentangling specific risk factors as used in the earlier asset pricing and portfolio allocation literature into their different sub-components. In Chapter 2, I propose an extension to the ...

Spending the big bucks may seem inevitable to a cash-strapped city goer. This is especially true if you're a student pressed between a heavy load of school work and a tight budget. But have no fear ? the city that never sleeps offers a plethora of opportunities to learn, explore, and enjoy without blowing all your savings. You could start by checking out NYC: The Official Guide [2]. You can als...

Spending the big bucks may seem inevitable to a cash-strapped city goer. This is especially true if you're a student pressed between a heavy load of school work and a tight budget. But have no fear ? the city that never sleeps offers a plethora of opportunities to learn, explore, and enjoy without blowing all your savings. You could start by checking out NYC: The Official Guide [2]. You can als...

The automatic teller machine (ATM) will be for the foreseeable future the dominant mode of access to cash for those living in industrialized societies. In this article we present the ATM as a political site where a multiplicity of relationships—primarily but not exclusively between the customer and the bank—become configured in ways that serve some interests and not others. The article draws on...

where u1 is the proportion of the portfolio held in stocks, and u2 is the consumption rate. Evidently it is natural to take 0 ≤ u1 ≤ 1 and u2 ≥ 0, but in fact we shall allow −∞ < u1 <∞. If u1 > 1 then the cash part of the portfolio is negative, so we are borrowing money to buy stocks. If u1 < 0 then the stock part of the portfolio is negative, so we are so called shorting the stock. The goal is...

Spending the big bucks may seem inevitable to a cash-strapped city goer. This is especially true if you're a student pressed between a heavy load of school work and a tight budget. But have no fear ? the city that never sleeps offers a plethora of opportunities to learn, explore, and enjoy without blowing all your savings. You could start by checking out NYC: The Official Guide [2]. You can als...