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Using Language Models for Spam Detection in Social Bookmarking
August 8, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This paper describes the approach to the spam detection task of the 2008 ECML/PKDD Discovery Challenge. Their approach focuses on the use of language models and is based on the intuitive notion...
Provided by Tilburg University
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White Papers
The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002: Implications for Market Efficiency and Analysts' Performance
November 27, 2007, 12:00am PST
The Sarbanes-Oxley Act, enacted as a response to the multiple cases of corporate fraud during the years 2001-2002, is considered to be one of the most important re-forms in the corporate...
Provided by Tilburg University
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White Papers
Strategic Loan Defaults And Coordination: An Experimental Analysis
June 23, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The authors used experimental methods to study whether the uncertainty about bank and about borrower fundamentals affect borrowers repayment behavior. They find that solvent borrowers are more...
Provided by Tilburg University
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White Papers
Service-Oriented Computing: A Research Roadmap
September 29, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Service-Oriented Computing (SOC) is a new computing paradigm that utilizes services as the basic constructs to support the development of rapid, low-cost and easy composition of distributed...
Provided by Tilburg University
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White Papers
The FDI-growth Nexus In Latin America: The Role Of Source Countries And Local Conditions
June 25, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) has surged in Latin America (LA) since the mid 1990s. European and North American FDI are of capital importance. The authors investigate the FDI-growth nexus in LA...
Provided by Tilburg University
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White Papers
Essays On The Role Of Managerial Type In Financial Reporting
October 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The main focus of this dissertation is to examine whether and how individual managerial differences and their social context affect earnings quality. Earnings quality, as an important component of...
Provided by Tilburg University
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White Papers
Financial Integration And Liquidity Crises
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
This paper analyzes the effects of international financial integration on the stability of the banking system. Financial integration allows banks in different countries to smooth local liquidity...
Provided by Tilburg University
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White Papers
The Credit Crisis And The Moral Responsibility Of Professionals In Finance
April 1, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Starting from MacIntyre's virtue ethics, the authors investigate several codes of conduct of banks to identify the type of virtues that are needed to realize their mission. Based on this analysis,...
Provided by Tilburg University
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White Papers
Finance And Oil Is There A Resource Curse In Financial Development?
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
This paper shows that the finance and growth relationship is as important in resource-based economies as in other economies. This paper also documents less developed financial systems in...
Provided by Tilburg University
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White Papers
Essays On Pension Finance And Dynamic Asset Allocation
April 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
In most countries, pensions are provided in two major forms: Defined Benefit (DB) and Defined Contribution (DC). Under DB pension schemes, the employee's pension benefit is determined by a formula...
Provided by Tilburg University
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White Papers
Game Theory And Applications In Finance
June 3, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The authors study the risk capital allocation problem that arises when the total risk capital withheld by a firm needs to be divided over several portfolios within the firm. They propose to look...
Provided by Tilburg University
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White Papers
Essays On Financial Fragility
January 10, 2011, 12:00am PST
A number of financial crises started as an idiosyncratic shock to local banks, local securities or local markets, but the impacts eventually spread to markets with no direct economic linkage to...
Provided by Tilburg University
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White Papers
Economic Institutions And Stability: A Network Approach
August 1, 2011, 12:00am PDT
The authors consider a network economy in which economic agents are connected within a structure of value-generating relationships. Agents are assumed to be able to participate in three types of...
Provided by Tilburg University
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White Papers
Three Essays In Pension Finance
November 11, 2009, 12:00am PST
The recent financial crisis resulted in an unprecedented deterioration of Defined Benefit (DB) pension plans' funding ratios all over the world. Companies sponsoring these underfunded plans are...
Provided by Tilburg University
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White Papers
Where Angels Fear To Trade: The Role Of Religion In Household Finance
May 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Although the relationship between religion and economic development on the macro-level has been investigated, it is less clear how religious background influences economic attitudes and financial...
Provided by Tilburg University
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White Papers
Higher Order Risk Attitudes, Demographics, And Financial Decisions
April 18, 2011, 12:00am PDT
The authors conduct an experiment to study the prevalence of the higher order risk attitudes of prudence and temperance, in a large demographically representative sample, as well as in a sample of...
Provided by Tilburg University
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White Papers
Why Do Firms Evade Taxes? The Role Of Information Sharing And Financial Sector Outreach
August 28, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Informality is a wide-spread phenomenon across the globe. The authors show that firms in countries with better information sharing systems and greater financial sector outreach evade taxes to a...
Provided by Tilburg University
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White Papers
Impact Of The Financial Crisis
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
The major thrust of insolvency reform across many jurisdictions over the last twenty years has been the development of legislation to both facilitate and promote business reorganizations. From...
Provided by Tilburg University
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White Papers
Financial Fragmentation And Insider Arbitrage
February 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
If there were no impediments to the flow of capital across space, then the returns to capital should be equalized. The authors provide evidence to the contrary. There are large differences in the...
Provided by Tilburg University
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White Papers
Bank Financing For SMEs: Evidence Across Countries And Bank-Ownership Types
September 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Using data for 91 large banks from 45 countries, this paper finds few differences in the extent, type, and pricing of SME loans across foreign, private, and government-owned banks, even though...
Provided by Tilburg University
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White Papers
The Degree Of Financial Liberalization And Aggregated Stock-Return Volatility In Emerging Markets
June 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors address whether the degree of financial liberalization affects the aggregated total volatility of stock returns by considering the time-varying nature of financial...
Provided by Tilburg University
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White Papers
Cross-Border Exposures And Financial Contagion
March 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
Integrated financial markets provide opportunities for expansion and improved risk sharing, but also pose threats of contagion risk through cross-border exposures. This paper examines cross-border...
Provided by Tilburg University
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White Papers
What Determines The Financing Decision In Corporate Takeovers: Cost Of Capital, Agency Problems, Or The Means Of Payment?
August 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
While the means of payment in takeovers has been a focal point in the takeover literature, what has largely been ignored is the analysis of how the takeover bid is financed and what its impact is...
Provided by Tilburg University
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White Papers
What Is The Role Of Legal Systems In Financial Intermediation? Theory And Evidence
March 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
The authors develop a theory and empirical test of how the legal system affects the relationship between venture capitalists and entrepreneurs. The theory uses a double moral hazard framework to...
Provided by Tilburg University
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White Papers
Optimal Fragile Financial Networks
December 1, 2007, 12:00am PST
The authors study a financial network characterized by the presence of depositors, banks and their shareholders. Belonging to a financial network is beneficial for both the depositors and banks'...
Provided by Tilburg University
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White Papers
Taking Stock And Moving Forward: The State Of Islamic Finance And Prospects For The Future
May 4, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This white paper discusses the current state of the Islamic finance industry. The authors argue that in an attempt to facilitate growth in the industry, the industry seems to have forgotten its...
Provided by Tilburg University
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White Papers
Pension Liability Valuation And Asset Allocation In The Presence Of Funding Risk
November 29, 2007, 12:00am PST
The current practice of valuing pension liabilities using discount rates that do not reflect the risk inherent in the pension promise has no foundation in financial economics. The authors propose...
Provided by Tilburg University
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White Papers
Option Pricing And Momentum
April 22, 2008, 12:00am PDT
When a stock pays a stochastic dividend, a negative correlation between the returns on the stock and the innovations to the dividend yield induces momentum in stock returns. This situation may...
Provided by Tilburg University
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White Papers
Foundations of Blueprint for Cloud-Based Service Engineering
June 1, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Current cloud-based service offerings are often provided as one-size-fits-all solution and give little or no room for customization. This limits the ability for application developers to pick and...
Provided by Tilburg University
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From UML 2.0 Sequence Diagrams to PROMELA Code by Graph Transformation Using AToM
November 29, 2011, 12:00am PST
A main challenge in software development process is to bring error detection to first phases of the software life cycle. The Verification and Validation (V&V) of UML diagrams is of interest in a...
Provided by Tilburg University
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Description of the Self-Chord P2P Application
June 9, 2011, 12:00am PDT
This paper presents the implementation of the "Self-Chord" P2P system. Self-Chord inherits the ability of Chord-like structured systems for the construction and maintenance of an overlay of peers,...
Provided by Tilburg University
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Whitepapers
A Near Maximum Likelihood Decoding Algorithm for MIMO Systems Based on Semi-Definite Programming
May 31, 2007, 12:00am PDT
In Multi-Input Multi-Output (MIMO) systems, Maximum-Likelihood (ML) decoding is equivalent to finding the closest lattice point in an N-dimensional complex space. In general, this problem is known...
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Whitepapers
A Near Maximum Likelihood Decoding Algorithm for MIMO Systems Based on Semi-Definite Programming
May 31, 2007, 12:00am PDT
In Multi-Input Multi-Output (MIMO) systems, Maximum-Likelihood (ML) decoding is equivalent to finding the closest lattice point in an N-dimensional complex space. In general, this problem is known...
Provided by Tilburg University
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White Papers
Description of the Self-Chord P2P Application
June 9, 2011, 12:00am PDT
This paper presents the implementation of the "Self-Chord" P2P system. Self-Chord inherits the ability of Chord-like structured systems for the construction and maintenance of an overlay of peers,...
Provided by Tilburg University
-
White Papers
From UML 2.0 Sequence Diagrams to PROMELA Code by Graph Transformation Using AToM
November 29, 2011, 12:00am PST
A main challenge in software development process is to bring error detection to first phases of the software life cycle. The Verification and Validation (V&V) of UML diagrams is of interest in a...
Provided by Tilburg University
-
White Papers
Foundations of Blueprint for Cloud-Based Service Engineering
June 1, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Current cloud-based service offerings are often provided as one-size-fits-all solution and give little or no room for customization. This limits the ability for application developers to pick and...
Provided by Tilburg University
-
White Papers
Option Pricing And Momentum
April 22, 2008, 12:00am PDT
When a stock pays a stochastic dividend, a negative correlation between the returns on the stock and the innovations to the dividend yield induces momentum in stock returns. This situation may...
Provided by Tilburg University
-
White Papers
Pension Liability Valuation And Asset Allocation In The Presence Of Funding Risk
November 29, 2007, 12:00am PST
The current practice of valuing pension liabilities using discount rates that do not reflect the risk inherent in the pension promise has no foundation in financial economics. The authors propose...
Provided by Tilburg University
-
White Papers
Taking Stock And Moving Forward: The State Of Islamic Finance And Prospects For The Future
May 4, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This white paper discusses the current state of the Islamic finance industry. The authors argue that in an attempt to facilitate growth in the industry, the industry seems to have forgotten its...
Provided by Tilburg University
-
White Papers
Optimal Fragile Financial Networks
December 1, 2007, 12:00am PST
The authors study a financial network characterized by the presence of depositors, banks and their shareholders. Belonging to a financial network is beneficial for both the depositors and banks'...
Provided by Tilburg University
-
White Papers
What Is The Role Of Legal Systems In Financial Intermediation? Theory And Evidence
March 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
The authors develop a theory and empirical test of how the legal system affects the relationship between venture capitalists and entrepreneurs. The theory uses a double moral hazard framework to...
Provided by Tilburg University
-
White Papers
What Determines The Financing Decision In Corporate Takeovers: Cost Of Capital, Agency Problems, Or The Means Of Payment?
August 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
While the means of payment in takeovers has been a focal point in the takeover literature, what has largely been ignored is the analysis of how the takeover bid is financed and what its impact is...
Provided by Tilburg University
-
White Papers
Cross-Border Exposures And Financial Contagion
March 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
Integrated financial markets provide opportunities for expansion and improved risk sharing, but also pose threats of contagion risk through cross-border exposures. This paper examines cross-border...
Provided by Tilburg University
-
White Papers
The Degree Of Financial Liberalization And Aggregated Stock-Return Volatility In Emerging Markets
June 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors address whether the degree of financial liberalization affects the aggregated total volatility of stock returns by considering the time-varying nature of financial...
Provided by Tilburg University
-
White Papers
Bank Financing For SMEs: Evidence Across Countries And Bank-Ownership Types
September 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Using data for 91 large banks from 45 countries, this paper finds few differences in the extent, type, and pricing of SME loans across foreign, private, and government-owned banks, even though...
Provided by Tilburg University
-
White Papers
Financial Fragmentation And Insider Arbitrage
February 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
If there were no impediments to the flow of capital across space, then the returns to capital should be equalized. The authors provide evidence to the contrary. There are large differences in the...
Provided by Tilburg University
-
White Papers
Impact Of The Financial Crisis
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
The major thrust of insolvency reform across many jurisdictions over the last twenty years has been the development of legislation to both facilitate and promote business reorganizations. From...
Provided by Tilburg University
-
White Papers
Why Do Firms Evade Taxes? The Role Of Information Sharing And Financial Sector Outreach
August 28, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Informality is a wide-spread phenomenon across the globe. The authors show that firms in countries with better information sharing systems and greater financial sector outreach evade taxes to a...
Provided by Tilburg University
-
White Papers
Higher Order Risk Attitudes, Demographics, And Financial Decisions
April 18, 2011, 12:00am PDT
The authors conduct an experiment to study the prevalence of the higher order risk attitudes of prudence and temperance, in a large demographically representative sample, as well as in a sample of...
Provided by Tilburg University
-
White Papers
Where Angels Fear To Trade: The Role Of Religion In Household Finance
May 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Although the relationship between religion and economic development on the macro-level has been investigated, it is less clear how religious background influences economic attitudes and financial...
Provided by Tilburg University
-
White Papers
Three Essays In Pension Finance
November 11, 2009, 12:00am PST
The recent financial crisis resulted in an unprecedented deterioration of Defined Benefit (DB) pension plans' funding ratios all over the world. Companies sponsoring these underfunded plans are...
Provided by Tilburg University
-
White Papers
Economic Institutions And Stability: A Network Approach
August 1, 2011, 12:00am PDT
The authors consider a network economy in which economic agents are connected within a structure of value-generating relationships. Agents are assumed to be able to participate in three types of...
Provided by Tilburg University
-
White Papers
Essays On Financial Fragility
January 10, 2011, 12:00am PST
A number of financial crises started as an idiosyncratic shock to local banks, local securities or local markets, but the impacts eventually spread to markets with no direct economic linkage to...
Provided by Tilburg University
-
White Papers
Game Theory And Applications In Finance
June 3, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The authors study the risk capital allocation problem that arises when the total risk capital withheld by a firm needs to be divided over several portfolios within the firm. They propose to look...
Provided by Tilburg University
-
White Papers
Essays On Pension Finance And Dynamic Asset Allocation
April 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
In most countries, pensions are provided in two major forms: Defined Benefit (DB) and Defined Contribution (DC). Under DB pension schemes, the employee's pension benefit is determined by a formula...
Provided by Tilburg University
-
White Papers
Finance And Oil Is There A Resource Curse In Financial Development?
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
This paper shows that the finance and growth relationship is as important in resource-based economies as in other economies. This paper also documents less developed financial systems in...
Provided by Tilburg University
-
White Papers
The Credit Crisis And The Moral Responsibility Of Professionals In Finance
April 1, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Starting from MacIntyre's virtue ethics, the authors investigate several codes of conduct of banks to identify the type of virtues that are needed to realize their mission. Based on this analysis,...
Provided by Tilburg University
-
White Papers
Financial Integration And Liquidity Crises
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
This paper analyzes the effects of international financial integration on the stability of the banking system. Financial integration allows banks in different countries to smooth local liquidity...
Provided by Tilburg University
-
White Papers
Essays On The Role Of Managerial Type In Financial Reporting
October 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The main focus of this dissertation is to examine whether and how individual managerial differences and their social context affect earnings quality. Earnings quality, as an important component of...
Provided by Tilburg University
-
White Papers
The FDI-growth Nexus In Latin America: The Role Of Source Countries And Local Conditions
June 25, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) has surged in Latin America (LA) since the mid 1990s. European and North American FDI are of capital importance. The authors investigate the FDI-growth nexus in LA...
Provided by Tilburg University
-
White Papers
Service-Oriented Computing: A Research Roadmap
September 29, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Service-Oriented Computing (SOC) is a new computing paradigm that utilizes services as the basic constructs to support the development of rapid, low-cost and easy composition of distributed...
Provided by Tilburg University
-
White Papers
Strategic Loan Defaults And Coordination: An Experimental Analysis
June 23, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The authors used experimental methods to study whether the uncertainty about bank and about borrower fundamentals affect borrowers repayment behavior. They find that solvent borrowers are more...
Provided by Tilburg University
-
White Papers
The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002: Implications for Market Efficiency and Analysts' Performance
November 27, 2007, 12:00am PST
The Sarbanes-Oxley Act, enacted as a response to the multiple cases of corporate fraud during the years 2001-2002, is considered to be one of the most important re-forms in the corporate...
Provided by Tilburg University
-
White Papers
Using Language Models for Spam Detection in Social Bookmarking
August 8, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This paper describes the approach to the spam detection task of the 2008 ECML/PKDD Discovery Challenge. Their approach focuses on the use of language models and is based on the intuitive notion...
Provided by Tilburg University
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