Shadow Insurance

Shadow Insurance

www.SwissFinanceInstitute.ch The Swiss Finance Institute (SFI) is a private foundation created in 2006 by Switzerland’s banking and finance community in cooperation with leading Swiss universities. The Institute supports and advances research, doctoral training, knowledge transfer and education in banking and finance. SFI also fosters interaction between researchers and practitioners with the g...

Robust insurance mechanisms and the shadow prices of information constraints

Legal aspects of Shadow Banking

Shadow Banking system, as an investment method, while being an integral part of the supervised banking system, is a rival for banks and governance institutions in financing and oversight. As a result, its development has created a situation for regulated institutions, which leads to concerns about the legal and regulatory responsibilities of the banking and financial system for investment not g...

Shadow Mapping and Shadow Volumes: Recent Developments in Real-Time Shadow Rendering

In recent years , both Williams’ original Z-buffer shadow mapping algorithm [Williams 1978] and Crow’s shadow volumes [Crow 1977] have seen many variations, additions and enhancements, greatly increasing the visual quality and efficiency of renderings using these techniques. Additionally, the fast evolution of commodity graphics hardware allows for a nearly complete mapping of these algorithms ...

Shadow Carving

The shape of an object may be estimated by observing the shadows on its surface. We present a method that is robust with respect to a conservative classification of shadow regions. Assuming that a conservative estimate of the object shape is available, we analyze images of the object illuminated with known point light sources taken from known camera locations. We adjust our surface estimate usi...