During the recent debt crisis in Europe, policy makers responded to the controversy surrounding CDS by implementing a series of policies that banned CDS trading. Sambalaibat (2014) documents that a temporary CDS ban increased bond market liquidity but a permanent ban instead decreased bond market liquidity. To explain these patterns, I build a search-theoretic model of OTC bond and CDS markets ...

Status of this Memo This document specifies an Internet standards track protocol for the Internet community, and requests discussion and suggestions for improvements. Please refer to the current edition of the "Internet Official Protocol Standards" (STD 1) for the standardization state and status of this protocol. Distribution of this memo is unlimited. Abstract This document defines the use of...

The use of cross-over trials in investigating treatments for infertility is discussed. A simple possible approach to analyzing such trials using the Mantel-Haenszel procedure is explained. A more flexible approach based on the normal-binomial mixture model of Ezzet and Whitehead is examined. It is shown how this may be implemented in various statistical packages by applying it to two real examp...

A tessellation is a process that surrounds us every day. It is an old problem in mathematics and in computational geometry Preparata, 1985 . Several tessellations are known, although only some of them are interesting in the computational geometry. The main aim of the tessellation is to tile or divide the space of the interest into smaller parts tiles upon which other problems could be solved mo...

In this paper, the successive overrelaxation iteration and the variation of parameters formula are used to discuss the stability of linear and nonlinear Volterra integrodifferential equations. Some sufficient conditions are obtained, such that the trivial solution of the Volterra integrodifferential equations is asymptotically stable; these stability conditions are given directly from the coeff...

This RFC defines a proposed standard protocol to support NetBIOS services in a TCP/IP environment. Both local network and internet operation are supported. Various node types are defined to accommodate local and internet topologies and to allow operation with or without the use of IP broadcast. This RFC gives the detailed specifications of the NetBIOS-over-TCP packets, protocols, and defined co...

Orbital dynamic simulations show that many asteroids in the main asteroid belt are driven toward Mars-crossing orbits by numerous weak mean motion resonances, which slowly increase the orbital ellipticity of the asteroids. In addition, half of the Mars-crossing asteroids (MCAs) transition to Earth-crossing asteroids (ECAs) in less than 20 million years. This scenario quantitatively explains the...

Public health nutrition sits at the nexus of a global crisis in food, environmental and health systems that has generated - along with numerous other problems - an urgent and changing problem of food insecurity. The 'new' food insecurity, however, is different from the old: it is bimodal, encompassing issues of both under- and over-consumption, hunger and obesity, quantity and quality; it has a...

Although reproducible results can be obtained in photometric set-point titrations of submicromolar amounts (5 -lo+ M and higher) of calcium(I1) and zinc(I1) by using an ? automatic titrator, the systematic error can be considerable. This error is partly intrinsic ; in nature, but there is an additional error caused by dilution in successive titrations_ Accurate values can be obtained only when ...