1 Variables collected 1.1 Household and individual level 1. Assets (a) Movable assets i. Livestock: Sum of all livestock assets owned by respondents in Kenyan Shillings, including cows, small livestock, and birds. ii. Furniture: Value of cupboards, sofas, chairs, tables, clocks, stoves, and beds as self reported in Kenyan Shillings. iii. Agricultural tools: Value of farming tools, wheelbarrows,...

This paper investigates the circumstances under which negotiating simultaneously over multiple issues or assets helps reduce ineffi ciencies due to the presence of asymmetric information. Consider the case where one agent controls all assets. One would expect that strong substitutabilities among assets, would help trade, as the seller would value the additional units less. We show that this int...

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We provide the first economic research on `buy now, pay later' (BNPL): an unregulated FinTech credit product enabling consumers to defer payments interest-free into instalments. In 2021 transactions by BNPL firms are charged $19.5\%$ of active cards in our UK data. Charging a $0\%$ interest, amortizing debt cards, where typical interest rates $20\%$ and amortization schedules decades-long, rais...

this paper presents dynamic portfolio model based on the merton's optimal investment-consumption model, which combines dynamic synthetic put option using risk-free and risky assets. this paper is extended version of methodological paper published by yuan yao (2012) cite{26}. because of the long history of the development of foreign financial market, with a variety of financial derivatives, the ...

with organizations entering knowledge-based economy, knowledge and as a result intangible assets is considered as one of the most important competitive advantages in organizations. nowadays using intangible assets has a very significant influence on organizations’ success and survival social and intellectual capitals are among the most important intangible assets. social capital enjoys being au...

A fund’s performance is usually compared to the performance of an index or other funds. If a fund trails the benchmark, the fund manager is often replaced. We argue that this may lead to excessive risk-taking if fund managers differ in ability and have the opportunity to take excessive risk. To match the benchmark, fund managers may increase the risk of their portfolio even if this decreases th...

This paper presents methods for helping users understand reusable software assets. We present a model and architecture for visualizing reusable software assets. We described visualizations techniques based on design principles for helping the user understand and compare reusable components.

The Internet in its current form relies on extensive cooperation between network operators to ensure the integrity and security of its core infrastructure. Here we describe how routing registries can be used to improve the security of the Internet infrastructure in general and the BGP routing protocol in particular. Routing registries can be used to generate accurate prefix filter lists as well...