The valuation of dividend imputation credits is a currently unresolved issue facing managers, investors and regulators in the Australian market. This thesis builds upon Officer’s (1994) cost of capital, under imputation, framework by seeking to identify the value of imputation credits implied by option prices. It extends the existing imputation literature by using widely traded common stock opt...

The research presented in this paper reports an analysis of daylight in three offices with different exposures and characteristics located in Naples (Italy). The goal was to fully investigate daylight characteristics, also considering the circadian impact of daylight entering these offices, with the hope to develop guidelines to better assess daylight quality in built environments. One of the m...

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We propose a protection framework for resource sharing to promote cooperation among nodes in multi-hop wireless networks. In the resource sharing protocol, a node claims credits when it relays others’ packets. A node also issues rewards to the node which relays its packets. Rewards are used to validate the correctness of credits. In order to protect credits and rewards, we devise a secure regis...