in the context of international trade factoring as one of the important ways of financing, is a dominant method of asset based financing for small and medium enterprises. financing through factoring be done in the form of a contract between the creditor and factor, and determining the legal nature of this contract is important to identify and determine its effects. with this regard, this paper ...

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This paper sets up a matching (decentralized trade) model with a technology that allows each pair of agents to report the transfer of goods in the end of each pairwise meeting. It examines (a) conditions under which an allocation that can be supported as an equilibrium allocation, and (b) whether the report system can replace money. JEL Classification: E40

I. INTRODUCTION In the call for paper for OIC 2008 the description of the conference contains the following optimistic outlook: New approaches are required to enable greater flexibility , precision, timeliness and automation of analysis in response to rapidly evolving threats. Ontology-based technology as applied in the areas such as bioinformatics has demonstrated the possibility of gains alon...

There is an active world trade in seed and edible molluscs, including such species as oysters, abalones, clams, scallops, and mussels. The supply of new and effectively-produced products, such as triploid oyster seed, is likely to increase due to greater world-wide demand for these high-value products, together with improved technology. Transfer to live molluscs is driven by need an availabilit...