We use indicators from the Global Financial Development Database to identify effects of financial fragility on finance-growth nexus for period 2000 2014. Regressions our cross-country sample show that and increased private credit have negative growth. This result is robust controlling systemic banking crises indicate remain whether these materialize or not. The results regulations clean up bala...

Over recent years stricter EU capital requirements have resulted in constraining bank lending to SMEs. Alternative finance is expected ease such constraints, but what would it be its impact on fragility? This paper examines whether alternative for Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) the euro area moderate fragility. We employ a profit model from which we derive novel measure of fragility that b...

INTRODUCTION Osteogenesis imperfecta (OI) is a genetic disorder of type I collagen that results in bone fragility. This fragility is believed to stem from a combination of bone mass deficiency and compromised bone material properties [13]. Little data, however, is yet available to describe bone material properties in individuals with OI. This study presents the first characterization of bone ma...

This is a second technical companion to the essay On Robustness and Fragility in the second edition of The Black Swan (a follow up the Fourth Quadrant). It makes the distinction between fragile an robust to model (or representational) error on the basis of convexity. It also introduces a simple practical method to measure (as an indicator of fragility) the sensitivity of a portfolio (or balance...

Based on fixed point theory, this paper proposes a simple but efficient method for image integrity authentication, which is different from Digital Signature and Fragile Watermarking. By this method, any given image can be transformed into a fixed point of a well-chosen function, which can be constructed with periodic functions. The authentication can be realized due to the fragility of the fixe...

Osteoporosis mostly affects postmenopausal women and substantially increases their risk of fracture. Fractures associated with osteoporosis (fragility fractures) have a major impact on quality of life, mortality, and health care costs. Therefore, it is important to prevent fragility fractures in patients with postmenopausal osteoporosis. The ideal osteoporosis treatment is a drug therapy with t...

The existence of torsion, as well as consideration of the Soil-Structure Interaction (SSI), increase the natural periods of the structure resulting from a subsequent decrease in the seismic demand of the system. This paper summarizes the probabilistic assessment for evaluation of collapse fragility curves in concrete moment resisting structure with different mass center eccentricities. A 12-sto...