RETURNABLE FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS OF SELF-GOVERNMENT UNITS

Capability-Based Financial Instruments

Every novel cooperative arrangement of mutually suspicious parties interacting electronically — every smart contract — effectively requires a new cryptographic protocol. However, if every new contract requires new cryptographic protocol design, our dreams of cryptographically enabled electronic commerce would be unreachable. Cryptographic protocol design is too hard and expensive, given our unl...

ACCOUNTING FOR FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS FOR BANKS Joint Working Group of Banking Associations on Financial Instruments

Tracking of Returnable Packaging and Transport Units with active RFID in the grocery supply chain

The fresh products supply chain still has room to improve and increase efficiency and even become an intelligent supply chain by means of automating simple but valuable data flows which will be the foundations and first stage for developing new value-added services. The Spanish company ECOMOVISTAND has developed an innovative and ecological packaging and transport unit, called MT, for the groce...

Financial Instruments in Recommendation Mechanisms

Prices of financial instruments with stochastic volatility

This interim draft represents work in progress. It is submitted for discussion purposes at the Aggregation of Opinions conference sponsored by the Cowles Foundation, Yale University, September 15–17, 2006.