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Estimation Of Employee Stock Option Exercise Rates And Firm Cost
June 9, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper is the first to perform a comprehensive estimation of employee stock option exercise behavior and option cost to firms. The authors develop a GMM-based methodology, robust to...
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Crisis Resolution And Bank Liquidity
August 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
When banks have relative expertise in employing risky assets, the market for these assets clears only at re-sale prices following a large number of bank failures. The gains from acquiring assets...
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The New Case For Functional Separation In Wholesale Financial Services
July 30, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper reexamines the separation of commercial and investment banking in the context of modern wholesale financial environment, dominated by a small cohort of "Systemic" institutions. The...
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A Behavioral Finance Explanation For The Success Of Low Volatility Portfolios
December 18, 2009, 12:00am PST
Arguably the most remarkable anomaly in finance is the violation of the risk?]return tradeoff within the stock market: Over the past 40 years, high volatility and high beta stocks in U.S. markets...
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The Efficient Markets Hypothesis: The Demise Of The Demon Of Chance?
November 11, 2009, 12:00am PST
Many commentators have suggested that economists in general and financial economists in particular have some responsibility for the recent global financial crisis. They were blinded by an...
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Dynamic Trading With Predictable Returns And Transaction Costs
July 21, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper derives in closed form the optimal dynamic portfolio policy when trading is costly and security returns are predictable by signals with different mean-reversion speeds. The optimal...
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When Everyone Runs For The Exit
August 20, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The dangers of shouting "Fire" in a crowded theater are well understood, but the dangers of rushing to the exit in the financial markets are more complex. Yet, the two events share several...
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Testing Asymmetric-Information Asset Pricing Models
August 10, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Theoretical asset pricing models routinely assume that investors have heterogeneous information. The authors provide direct evidence of the importance of information asymmetry for asset prices and...
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The Role Of Banks In Dividend Policy
August 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The authors document a significant inverse relationship between a firm's dividend payouts and reliance on bank loan financing. Banks limit dividend payouts to shareholders in order to protect the...
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Precautionary Hoarding Of Liquidity And Inter-Bank Markets: Evidence From The Sub-prime Crisis
July 3, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The paper consists of three pieces. First, the authors document that liquidity holdings of the large settlement banks in the UK experienced on average a 30% increase in the period immediately....
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Endogenizing Bidder?s Choice In Financial Assets Auctions ? An Experimental Investigation
June 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper is to investigate the preferences of potential bidders in choosing between uniform and discriminatory auction pricing methods. Many financial assets, particularly government bonds, are...
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Post-Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Performance: Avoiding Chapter 22
September 3, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper extends the use of bankruptcy prediction models to a new application: the assessment of the health of industrial companies as they emerge from the Chapter 11 bankruptcy process,...
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The Re-Emergence Of Distressed Exchanges In Corporate Restructurings
March 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
In 2008 and 2009, bondholders of ailing companies were affected by a reemergence of an important corporate restructuring strategy, known as a Distressed Exchange. Fourteen companies in 2008...
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Creditor Rights And Corporate Risk-Taking
June 27, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The authors analyze the link between creditor rights and firms' investment policies, proposing that stronger creditor rights in bankruptcy reduce corporate risk-taking. In cross-country analysis,...
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Illiquidity Or Credit Deterioration: A Study Of Liquidity In The US Corporate Bond Market During Financial Crises
July 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The authors use a unique data-set to study liquidity effects in the US corporate bond market, covering more than 30,000 bonds. The analysis explores time-series and cross-sectional aspects of...
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Background Risk And Trading In A Full-Information Rational Expectations Economy
August 19, 2009, 12:00am PDT
In this paper the authors assume that investors have the same information, but trade due to the evolution of their non-market wealth. In the formulation, investors rebalance their portfolios in...
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Crash Risk In Currency Markets
June 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
How much of carry trade excess returns can be explained by the presence of disaster risk? To answer this question, the authors propose a simple structural model that includes both Gaussian and...
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The 2007-2009 Financial Crisis And Executive Compensation: Analysis And A Proposal For A Novel Structure
June 15, 2009, 12:00am PDT
In this paper the authors analyze first how the common executive compensation, which is composed of equity-based compensation (stocks and executive stock options) and a fixed cash compensation,...
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On The Economic Sources Of Stock Market Volatility
August 31, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The authors study long historical data series of aggregate stock market volatility, starting in the 19th century, as in Schwert (1989). They formulate models with the long term component driven by...
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Priced Risk And Asymmetric Volatility In The Cross-Section Of Skewness
January 10, 2008, 12:00am PST
The authors investigate the sources of skewness in aggregate risk-factors and the cross-section of stock returns. In an ICAPM setting with conditional volatility, they find theoretical time series...
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Semiparametric Vector MEM
September 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
In financial time series analysis the authors encounter several instances of non - negative valued processes which exhibit clustering and can be modeled as the product of a vector of conditionally...
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Term Structure Of Risk, The Role Of Known And Unknown Risks And Non-Stationary Distributions
May 29, 2007, 12:00am PDT
In this paper the authors document the presence of a term structure of risk and they propose how to measure it using alternative models to forecast volatility and the Value at Risk at different...
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A MEM-based Analysis Of Volatility Spillovers In East Asian Financial Markets
July 20, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Transmission mechanisms in financial markets reflect the degree of integration of capital markets, as well as the relative importance of real economies. Market volatility has components which may...
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Does Hedging Affect Commodity Prices? The Role Of Producer Default Risk
November 18, 2008, 12:00am PST
Do hedging and speculative activity in commodity futures affect spot prices? Yes, when commodity producers have hedging needs. The authors build a model in which producers are risk-averse to...
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Is CEO Pay Really Inefficient? A Survey Of New Optimal Contracting Theories
February 4, 2009, 12:00am PST
The authors argue that executive compensation is set by CEOs themselves rather than boards on behalf of shareholders, since many features of observed pay packages may appear inconsistent with the...
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Risk Premia In International Equity Markets Revisited
August 5, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Recent evidence suggests that global equity markets are becoming more risky. The authors find that much of the apparent increase in international variance and covariance of returns can be...
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Using Samples Of Unequal Length In Generalized Method Of Moments Estimation
January 18, 2008, 12:00am PST
Many applications in financial economics use data series with different starting or ending dates. This paper describes estimation methods, based on the Generalized Method of Moments (GMM), which...
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Competition And Bias
April 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The authors attempt to measure the effect of competition on bias in the context of analyst earnings forecasts, which are known to be excessively optimistic due to conflicts of interest. The...
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Deductio Ad Absurdum: Ceos Donating Their Own Stock To Their Own Family Foundations
September 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The author studies large charitable stock gifts by Chairmen and CEOs of public companies. These gifts, which are not subject to insider trading law, often, occur just before sharp declines in...
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Limited Arbitrage And Liquidity In The Market For Credit Risk
June 17, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Recent research has shown that default risk accounts for only a part of the total yield spread on risky corporate bonds relative to their risk-less benchmarks. One candidate for the unexplained...
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Predictability And ?Good Deals? In Currency Markets
August 15, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This paper studies predictability of currency returns over the period 1971-2006. To assess the economic significance of predictability, the authors construct an upper bound on the explanatory...
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Estimating The Implied Risk Neutral Density For The U.S. Market Portfolio
July 30, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The market's risk neutral probability distribution for the value of an asset on a future date can be extracted from the prices of a set of options that mature on that date, but two key technical...
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Can Microfinance Reduce Portfolio Volatility?
February 18, 2008, 12:00am PST
Microfinance is arguably one of the most effective techniques for poverty alleviation in developing countries. Although traditionally supported by nongovernmental organizations and...
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Liquidity Risk And Competition In Banking
January 30, 2008, 12:00am PST
Liquidity risk is one of the major risks faced by banks in addition to credit risk, market risk and operating risk. In this paper the authors construct a stylized model of bank management where...
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Investigating ICAPM With Dynamic Conditional Correlations
February 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
This paper examines the intertemporal relation between expected return and risk for 30 stocks in the Dow Jones Industrial Average. The mean-reverting dynamic conditional correlation model of Engle...
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When Is Noise Not Noise ? A Microstructure Estimate Of Realized Volatility
February 8, 2008, 12:00am PST
This paper studies the joint distribution of tick by tick returns and durations between trades. Returns are decomposed into changes in full information prices and microstructure noise, but the...
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Fitting And Testing Vast Dimensional Time-Varying Covariance Models
October 24, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Building models for high dimensional portfolios is important in risk management and asset allocation. Here the authors propose a novel way of estimating models of time-varying covariance's that...
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Negative Hedging: Performance Sensitive Debt And CEOs? Equity Incentives
December 8, 2007, 12:00am PST
The authors examine the relation between CEOs' equity incentives and their use of performance-sensitive debt contracts. These contracts require higher or lower interest payments when the...
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Elusive Return Predictability: Discussion
February 7, 2008, 12:00am PST
Two major conclusions follow from this very careful study. First, sophisticated prediction tools do not fare well relative to naive models predicting return based on past sample means. Second,...
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Hedge Fund Due Diligence: A Source Of Alpha In A Hedge Fund Portfolio Strategy
January 21, 2008, 12:00am PST
Due diligence is an important source of alpha in a well designed hedge fund portfolio strategy. It is generally understood that the high returns possible in investing in hedge funds are somewhat...
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Interference Channel Aided by an Infrastructure Relay
April 16, 2009, 12:00am PDT
A Gaussian Interference Channel with an Infrastructure Relay (ICIR) is investigated. The relay has finite-capacity links to both sources and destinations that are orthogonal to each other and to...
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Estimating Government Discretion In Fiscal Policy Making
July 26, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Varieties of Capitalism (VoC) is a relatively new approach to describe macroeconomic differences across countries, classifying them into Coordinated Market Economies (CMEs) and Liberal Market...
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Credit Market Conditions And Economy-Wide Consequences Of Financial Reporting Quality
January 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
The author examines the aggregate economic consequences of financial reporting quality (via its relation to the level of information asymmetry between firms and providers of capital). Economic...
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Packet Loss Characterization in WiFi-Based Long Distance Networks
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
Despite the increasing number of WiFi-based Long Distance (WiLD) network deployments, there is a lack of understanding of how WiLD networks perform in practice. In this paper, the authors perform...
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Attention Allocation Over The Business Cycle: Evidence From The Mutual Fund Industry
May 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The world of actively managed mutual funds, a multi-billion information-processing industry, provides a rich laboratory to study the link between information and investment choices. The authors...
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Gaussian Interference Channel Aided by a Relay With Out-of-Band Reception and In-Band Transmission
June 28, 2011, 12:00am PDT
A Gaussian Interference Channel (IC) is investigated in which a relay assists two source-destination pairs. The relay is assumed to receive over dedicated orthogonal channels from the sources...
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Pragmatic Information Rates, Generalizations Of The Kelly Criterion, And Financial Market Efficiency
February 21, 2011, 12:00am PST
This paper is part of an ongoing investigation of "Pragmatic information," defined in Weinberger (2002) as "The amount of information actually used in making a decision." Because a study of...
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Collusion-Resilient Credit-Based Reputations for Peer-to-Peer Content Distribution
September 9, 2010, 12:00am PDT
With growing demand for high-quality multimedia content, content providers face enormous pressure to scale the serving capacity. Peer-to-peer content distribution is a natural low cost option to...
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GNUC: A New Universal Composability Framework
June 6, 2011, 12:00am PDT
The authors put forward a framework for the modular design and analysis of multi-party protocols. The framework is called "GNUC" (with the recursive meaning "GNUC's Not UC"), already alluding to...
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Structure Preserving CCA Secure Encryption and Its Application to Oblivious Third Parties
June 16, 2011, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors present the first public key encryption scheme that is structure preserving, i.e., the encryption scheme uses only algebraic operations. In particular, it does not use...
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Universally Composable Security With Global Setup
October 3, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Cryptographic protocols are often designed and analyzed under some trusted setup assumptions, namely in settings where the participants have access to global information that is trusted to have...
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Flexible, Wide-Area Storage for Distributed Systems With WheelFS
March 2, 2009, 12:00am PST
WheelFS is a wide-area distributed storage system intended to help multi-site applications share data and gain fault tolerance. WheelFS takes the form of a distributed file system with a familiar...
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Estimating the Performance of Hypothetical Cloud Service Deployments: A Measurement-Based Approach
August 9, 2010, 12:00am PDT
To optimize network performance, cloud service providers have a number of options available to them, including co-locating production servers in well-connected Internet eXchange (IX) points,...
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Alice Meets Bob: A Comparative Usability Study of Wireless Device Pairing Methods for a "Two-User" Setting
July 27, 2009, 12:00am PDT
When users want to establish wireless communication between/among their devices, the channel has to be bootstrapped first. To prevent any malicious control of or eavesdropping over the...
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We Can Remember It for You Wholesale: Implications of Data Remanence on the Use of RAM for True Random Number Generation on RFID Tags
September 7, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Random number generation is a fundamental security primitive for RFID devices. However, even this relatively simple requirement is beyond the capacity of today's average RFID tag. A recently...
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Using HB Family of Protocols for Privacy-Preserving Authentication of RFID Tags in a Population
July 7, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Radio Frequency IDentification (RFID) technology is increasingly used in many aspects of daily life. Low-cost RFID devices have numerous applications in military, commercial and medical domains....
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Somewhat Non-Committing Encryption and Efficient Adaptively Secure Oblivious Transfer
April 15, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Designing efficient cryptographic protocols tolerating adaptive adversaries, who are able to corrupt parties on the fly as the computation proceeds, has been an elusive task. Indeed, thus far no...
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Robust Fuzzy Extractors and Authenticated Key Agreement From Close Secrets
July 22, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Consider two parties holding samples from correlated distributions W and W', respectively that are within distance t of each other in some metric space. These parties wish to agree on a uniformly...
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Keyboard Acoustic Emanations: An Evaluation of Strong Passwords and Typing Styles
November 24, 2010, 12:00am PST
The sounds resulting from keyboard typing can reveal information about the input data. In this paper, the authors revisit such keyboard acoustic emanations for the purpose of eavesdropping over...
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Identity-Based Online/Offline Key Encapsulation and Encryption
April 8, 2010, 12:00am PDT
An Identity-Based Online/Offline Encryption (IBOOE) scheme splits the encryption process into two phases. The first phase performs most of the heavy computations, such as modular exponentiation or...
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Cryptography Against Continuous Memory Attacks
October 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The authors say that a cryptographic scheme is Continuous Leakage-Resilient (CLR), if it allows users to refresh their secret keys, using only fresh local randomness, such that: The scheme remains...
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Locality Prediction for Oblivious Clients
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
To improve performance, large-scale Internet systems require clients to access nearby servers. While centralized systems can leverage static topology maps for rough network distances,...
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Non-Transitive Connectivity and DHTs
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
The most basic functionality of a Distributed Hash Table, or DHT, is to partition a key space across the set of nodes in a distributed system such that all nodes agree on the partitioning. For...
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Democratizing Content Publication With Coral
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
CoralCDN is a peer-to-peer content distribution network that allows a user to run a web site that offers high performance and meets huge demand, all for the price of a cheap broadband Internet...
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On-the-Fly Verification of Erasure-Encoded File Transfers (Extended Abstract)
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
The quality of peer-to-peer content distribution can suffer from the malicious behavior of participants that corrupt or mislabel content. While systems using simple block-by-block downloading can...
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On-the-Fly Verification of Rateless Erasure Codes for Efficient Content Distribution
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
Peer-to-Peer Content Distribution Networks (P2P-CDNs) are trafficking larger and larger files, but end-users have not witnessed meaningful increases in their available bandwidth, nor have...
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Shark: Scaling File Servers Via Cooperative Caching
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
Network file systems offer a powerful, transparent interface for accessing remote data. Unfortunately, in current network file systems like NFS, clients fetch data from a central file server,...
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Efficient Private Matching and Set Intersection
May 4, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The authors consider the problem of computing the intersection of private datasets of two parties, where the datasets contain lists of elements taken from a large domain. This problem has many...
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Keyword Search and Oblivious Pseudorandom Functions
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
The authors study the problem of privacy-preserving access to a database. Particularly, they consider the problem of privacy-preserving Keyword Search (KS), where records in the database are...
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The Role Of Competition Policy In The Promotion Of Economic Growth
March 30, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This paper discusses the role that competition policy can play in promoting economic growth. The paper begins by outlining the main components of modern antitrust policy. The paper then discusses...
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The Growing Influence Of Economics And Economists On Antitrust: An Extended Discussion
January 24, 2008, 12:00am PST
Over the past two to three decades economics has played an increasingly important role in the development of U.S. antitrust enforcement and policy. This paper first reviews the major facets of...
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Forward-Secure Hierarchical IBE With Applications to Broadcast Encryption
July 23, 2008, 12:00am PDT
A forward-secure encryption scheme protects secret keys from exposure by evolving the keys with time. Forward security has several unique requirements in Hierarchical Identity-Based Encryption...
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A Universal Calculus for Stream Processing Languages (Extended)
January 6, 2010, 12:00am PST
Stream processing applications such as algorithmic trading, MPEG processing, and web content analysis are ubiquitous and essential to business and entertainment. Language designers have developed...
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Typical: Taking the Tedium Out of Typing
November 16, 2007, 12:00am PST
The implementation of real-world type checkers requires a nontrivial engineering effort. The resulting code easily comprises thousands of lines, which increases the probability of software defects...
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Declarative Syntax Tree Engineering? Or, One Grammar to Rule Them All
November 16, 2007, 12:00am PST
Grammars for many parser generators not only specify a language's syntax but also the corresponding syntax tree. Unfortunately, most parser generators pick a somewhat arbitrary combination of...
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PADS: A Policy Architecture for Distributed Storage Systems (Extended)
March 3, 2009, 12:00am PST
This paper presents PADS, a policy architecture for building distributed storage systems. A policy architecture has two aspects. First, a common set of mechanisms that allow new systems to be...
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A Universal Calculus for Stream Processing Languages
January 4, 2010, 12:00am PST
Stream processing applications such as algorithmic trading, MPEG processing, and web content analysis are ubiquitous and essential to business and entertainment. Language designers have developed...
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Adjudging The Exceptional At International Law: Security, Public Order And Financial Crisis
November 12, 2008, 12:00am PST
This paper examines the impact of international law on the ability of states to mitigate the effects of financial crises. It focuses on the invocation of investment treaty disciplines in the...
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Proportionality: An Assault On Human Rights?
November 25, 2008, 12:00am PST
Balancing is the main method used by a number of constitutional courts around the world to resolve conflicts of fundamentals rights. The European Court of Human Rights is routinely balancing human...
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Gambling On The Stock Market: The Case Of Bankrupt Companies
January 21, 2011, 12:00am PST
This paper asks whether the stocks of bankrupt firms are correctly priced, and explores who trades the stocks of these firms, and why. This sample consists of firms that enter into Chapter 11 and...
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