Whether the current financial crisis is a bona fide “Minsky moment” is a matter for debate. Davidson (2008) firmly disputes that subprime mortgages constitute “Ponzi finance” in the technical sense that Hyman Minsky intended. We don’t disagree. Yet the fact that current events have again raised the profile of Minsky’s contribution is still a good thing, and we propose here to take advantage of ...

In this paper, we considered the half logistic model and derived a probability density function that generalized it. The cumulative distribution function, the $n^{th}$ moment, the median, the mode and the 100$k$-percentage points of the generalized distribution were established. Estimation of the parameters of the distribution through maximum likelihood method was accomplished with the aid of c...

We present calculations for various properties of the ground and excited states of several arylamine-substituted acridinium ion systems that have been studied experimentally. Using ab initio and semiempirical quantum mechanical methods together with the generalized Mulliken-Hush (GMH) model, we examine the excitation energies, dipole moment shifts, and electronic coupling elements for the verti...

We propose a parametrization for the generalized parton distributions (GPDs) which is based on representation of parton distributions as an infinite series of tchannel exchanges. The entire generalized parton distribution is given as an infinite sum over contributions of generalized light-cone distribution amplitudes in the tchannel. We also discuss the relations of the lowest Mellin moments of...