This paper investigates the role of banking supervision in controlling bank risk. Banking supervision is measured in terms of enforcement outputs (i.e., on-site audits and sanctions). Our results show an inverted U-shaped relationship between on-site audits and bank risk, while the relationship between sanctions and risk appears to be linear and negative. We also consider the combined effect of...

The aim of this paper is to suggest an approach to build ontology library for academic portal using Semantic Web technologies: RDF, XML, ontology, Simple Protocol and RDF Query Language (SPARQL) besides ASP.NET language. Ontologies capture the semantics of information from various sources. OntoLib enables the academic portal faculty to have their research papers published in one centralized pla...

Free, Libre and Open source software (FLOSS) is an intriguing subject for study. Academic studies of FLOSS have quickly expanded over the past 5 years approaching the topic from software engineering, economics, information systems, sociology, social psychology to name just a few. The pre-print repository at MIT now has over 192 papers and even that is only a small cross-section of the research ...

Traceability between published scientific breakthroughs and their implementation is essential, especially in the case of open-source software which implements bleeding-edge science its code. However, aligning link GitHub repositories academic papers can prove difficult, current practice establishing maintaining such links remains unknown. This paper investigates role references contained these ...

Rotterdam (EUR). Postgraduate teaching programmes range from six-week diploma courses to the PhD programme. Research at ISS is fundamental in the sense of laying a scientific basis for the formulation of appropriate development policies. The academic work of ISS is disseminated in the form of books, journal articles, teaching texts, monographs and working papers. The Working Paper series provid...