Asset Thresholds and Social Protection: A ‘Think-Piece’

Asset Thresholds and Social Protection: a ‘think-piece’

Investor Protection and Asset Pricing∗

Corporations in most countries are run by controlling shareholders, who have substantially smaller cash flow rights than their control rights in the firm. This separation of ownership and control allows the controlling shareholders to pursue private benefits at the cost of outside minority investors by diverting resources away from the firm and distorting corporate investment and payout policie...

GVHD protection? ThiNK iNKT cells.

In this issue of Blood, Rubio et al report that posttransplant invariant NKT (iNKT) cell recovery is inversely correlated with the risk of developing GVHD after stem cell transplantation.1 A llogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) remains the best curative therapy for many patients with hematologic malignancies and/or marrow failure states. While significant advances in transpl...

a benchmarking approach to optimal asset allocation for insurers and pension funds

uncertainty in the financial market will be driven by underlying brownian motions, while the assets are assumed to be general stochastic processes adapted to the filtration of the brownian motions. the goal of this study is to calculate the accumulated wealth in order to optimize the expected terminal value using a suitable utility function. this thesis introduced the lim-wong’s benchmark fun...

A Multi-district Asset Protection Problem with Time Windows for Disaster Management

One of the most important goals of disaster management teams is to protect the assets and infrastructures of the community in the event of accidents such as wildfires and floods. This issue requires appropriate operations of all disaster management teams and analysis of available information for suitable decision making and consequently timely response. A mixed integer mathematical model is pre...