Despite the fact that processes of deregulation and concomitant prudential re-regulation have recently been a dominant feature in financial markets of both developed and developing countries, relatively little empirical work has been done on their impact on bank competition and performance. This paper examines the impact of financial sector reforms on the cost structure characteristics and on t...

This paper details how folklore notions of hygiene and referential transparen y of R5RS ma ros are defeated by a systemati atta k. We demonstrate syntax-rules that seem to apture user identi ers and allow their own identi ers to be aptured by the losest lexi al bindings. In other words, we have written R5RS ma ros that a omplish what ommonly believed to be impossible. We build on the the fundam...

Abstract The study empirically investigates selected macroeconomic determinants of non-performing loans (NPLs) for a panel 8 South Asian Association Regional Cooperation countries (Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Maldives, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka), using annual data the period 2008–2019. To examine association, this study, primarily, conducted OLS model, fixed effect estimates, r...

Macros improve expressiveness, concision, abstraction, and language interoperability without changing the programming language itself. They are indispensable for building increasingly prevalent multilingual applications. Unfortunately, existing macro systems are wellencapsulated but unsafe (e.g., the C preprocessor) or are safe but tightlyintegrated with the language implementation (e.g., Schem...

(1) For every macro instruction I and for every integer location a holds card(if a = 0 then I; Goto(insloc(0)) else (StopSCMFSA)) = card I +6. (2) For every macro instruction I and for every integer location a holds card(if a > 0 then I; Goto(insloc(0)) else (StopSCMFSA)) = card I +6. Let a be an integer location and let I be a macro instruction. The functor while a = 0 do I yields a macro inst...

Minimax regret is an exact method for deriving a recommendation based on a small sample. It can incorporate costs in its measurement of opportunity loss (regret) in terms of not making the best choice. In this paper we present the methodolgy and implement it in four examples from di¤erent …elds: medicine, development policy, experimental game theory and macro economics. We focus on the comparis...

In this study, we propose dynamic prioritization of image macro-blocks for Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks (WMSN). An encoding scheme is employed at the source node by labeling the blocks as “important” or “not-important” based on the information they contain. We introduce a set of novel priority measures to weigh importance of macro-blocks using their intrinsic properties. Experimental res...