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Most analyses of banking crises assume that banks use real contracts. However, in practice contracts are nominal and this is what is assumed here. We consider a standard banking model with aggregate return risk, aggregate liquidity risk and idiosyncratic liquidity shocks. We show that, with non-contingent nominal deposit contracts, the first-best efficient allocation can be achieved in a decent...

Purpose – The aim of this study is to examine interpersonal trust in Muslim matrimonial sites (MMS) from a male perspective. Specifically how users perceive interpersonal trust in MMS; what are the signs of lack of trust in MMS (if any); and what strategies do users adopt to handle the lack of trust in MMS. Design/methodology/approach – This empirical qualitative study used ethnographic techniq...

To get insights into how Internet users perceive the quality and user-friendliness of website design, this study intend to conduct a controlled experiment using an eye-tracking device to examine the effects of different levels of the three primary features of website complexity, namely the component, coordinative, and dynamic complexities on the satisfaction and intentions to reuse of website u...

This paper presents our on-going project called "Generative Website Project". We design and develop generative systems that visualise possible contexts, that is, possible sequences of information out of existing information in order to stimulate human creative thinking. Possible sequences of information segments, usually called storytelling, scenarios, narratives, or, have been used as a tool f...