Financial Derivatives Notation According to Maastricht Criteria after the ESA 2010 Implementation

The Maastricht criteria and the Euro: Has the convergence continued?

We analyze the performance of the Maastricht convergence criteria (inflation, long-term interest rate, annual and overall public debt) of the European Monetary Union (EMU) that led to the introduction of the Euro on Jan. 1 1999 as book currency. Defining 3 regimes, 1992-97, 1997-1999 and 2000-2001, we analyse convergence properties, like a smooth or a rough transition in the mean or variance sh...

Tumbling Giant: Germany’s Experience with the Maastricht Fiscal Criteria

Collaboration and Technology - 16th International Conference, CRIWG 2010, Maastricht, The Netherlands, September 20-23, 2010. Proceedings

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Clustering people according to their preference criteria

Learning preferences is a useful task in application fields such as collaborative filtering, information retrieval, adaptive assistants or analysis of sensory data provided by panels. SVMs, using preference judgments, can induce ranking functions that map objects into real numbers, in such a way that more preferable objects achieve higher values. In this paper we present a new algorithm to buil...

Financial Derivatives

The Merriam-Webster dictionary defi nes a derivative in the fi eld of chemistry as " a substance that can be made from another substance. " Derivatives in fi nance work on the same principle. These fi nancial instruments promise payoffs that are derived from the value of something else, which is called the " underlying. " The underlying is often a fi nancial asset or rate, but it does not have ...