The selection of an optimal access network is an essential aspect of service delivery in heterogeneous wireless networks. Many efficient methods are used in the selection of the best network. The relation between monetary cost and bandwidth affects the network selection process, but this consideration is not accounted for in other selection processes. This study proposes the use of golden ratio...

The purpose of this study was to determine the impact mobile money services on access trade credit by microenterprises in Kamukunji market, Nairobi City County, Kenya. specific objectives were; assess whether digital payment-buy goods application (till number), saving and loan product (mshwari), mpesa for business application, pochi la biashara have influence market. guided by; Technology Accep...

In this paper we model the volatility of the spread between the overnight interest rate and the central bank policy rate (the policy spread) for the euro area and the UK during the two main phases of the financial crisis that began in late 2007. During the crisis, the policy spread exhibited signs of volatility, owing to the breakdown in interbank market activity. The determinants of this volat...

Along with the economic and technological developments of the past decades, obesity has become a growing public health problem. This study empirically investigates whether the large and widespread increases in body-mass index (BMI) that have been observed around the world are related to economic freedom, as measured and defined by the Economic Freedom of the World Index. Economic freedom is par...

This paper examines the role of collateralized money supply for short-run macroeconomic effects of monetary policy. We apply a simple sticky price model, where the central bank supplies money in exchange for securities that are discounted with the nominal interest rate. The central assumption is that only government bonds are eligible as collateral. If they are dominated in rate of return by pr...

Abstract Groups around Puget Sound have been formed to recover salmon, protect marine resources and address other natural resource issues. They are drafting plans to guide future restoration and protection actions by governments and nongovernmental organizations. Despite concern about the potential for development to degrade ecological functions, they have done very little to guide the associat...