Submitted: Jul 13, 2013; Accepted: Aug 15, 2013; Published: Aug 25, 2013 Abstract: Prior to Asian economic crisis in 1997, bond markets in lots of Asian countries were small and relatively undeveloped. The Asian financial crisis demonstrated the need for a broader range of funding sources, which led the governments of Asian countries to embark on a major program to develop a local bond market. ...

In this paper, we propose a new privacy-preserving smart coupon delivery system called PiCoDa. Like prior work on private behavioral targeted advertising, PiCoDa protects user data by performing targeting on the end-user’s device. However, PiCoDa makes two more guarantees: it verifies a user’s eligibility for a coupon, and it protects the vendor’s privacy by not revealing the targeting strategy...

The goal of this paper is to analyze the effect of OTC-DVP (over the counter delivery versus payment) fixed income market introduction in Slovenia on the term structure estimation and on the volatility of zero coupon yields and forward interest rates. For the purpose of the analysis Slovenian zero coupon and forward curves were estimated. The model used for yield curve estimation was Nelson-Sie...

A digital multi-coupon is similar to a paper-based booklet containing k coupons that can be purchased from one vendor and later redeemed at a vendor in exchange for services. Current schemes, offering privacy-protection and strong security properties such as unsplittability of multi-coupons, address business scenarios with a single vendor and multiple customers, and require customers to redeem ...

File swarming (or file sharing) is one of the most important applications in P2P networks. In this paper, we propose a stochastic framework to analyze a file swarming system under realistic setting: constraints in upload/download capacity, collaboration among peers and incentive for chunk exchange. We first extend the results in the coupon system [18] by providing a tighter performance bound. T...

The paper introduces a modified version of the classical Coupon Collector’s Problem entailing exchanges and cooperation between multiple players. Results of the development show that, within a proper Markov framework, the complexity of the Cooperative Multiplayer Coupon Collectors’ Problem can be attacked with an eye to the modeling of resource harvesting and sharing within the context of Next ...