The paper focuses on financial transactions, addressing over-the-counter (OTC) trading of derivatives, which many analyses of the recent financial crisis argue produced significant problems. This area of financial activity grew massively from the 1990s, facilitated by legal developments in both the US and the UK that ruled out any state regulation of the market whilst at the same time affirming...

The paper proposes a new simulator that supports UMTS and Enhanced-UMTS performance evaluation. Existing UMTS simulators integrate linklevel and system-level simulators, implemented using time-based simulation techniques. The proposed simulator integrates time-based link level simulations into an event-based system level simulator by extending ns-2. The simulator can evaluate parameters associa...

Much of the underlying demand for OTC derivatives originates from non-dealer financial institutions, such as institutional investors, or non-financial corporations (collectively referred to as ‘non-dealers’ in this article). Often, such firms use OTC derivatives to hedge financial risks arising from their investments or real economic activities. A life insurance provider, for instance, may use ...

Robyn Ott is a third-year law student at the University of Oklahoma College of Law. She is also the Managing Editor of the Oklahoma Journal of Law and Technology for the 2004-2005 academic year. Ms. Ott wrote this eBrief under the direction of Professor Drew Kershen while working on the Project on Intellectual Property Rights in Living Matter. Below, Ms. Ott discusses the legal effect of India’...

Jens O Schmid, Meng Dong, Silke Haubeiß, Godehard Friedel, Sabine Bode, Andreas Grabner, German Ott, Thomas E Mürdter, Moshe Oren, Walter E Aulitzky, Heiko van der Kuip 1 Dr. Margarete Fischer-Bosch Institute of Clinical Pharmacology and University of Tuebingen, Auerbachstr. 112, 70376 Stuttgart, Germany 2 Klinik Schillerhöhe, Department of Thoracic Surgery, Gerlingen, Germany 3 Department of C...

This paper describes a bio-surveillance system designed to detect anomalous patterns in pharmacy retail data. The system monitors national-level over-the-counter (OTC) pharmacy sales on a daily basis. Fast space-time scan statistics are used to detect disease outbreaks, and user feedback is incorporated to improve system utility and usability.

The research presented in this work is motivated by recent papers by Brigo et al. [5, 6], Burgard and Kjaer [7, 8, 10], Crépey [14, 15], Fujii and Takahashi [21], Piterbarg [38] and Pallavicini et al. [37]. Our goal is to provide a sound theoretical underpinning for some results presented in these papers by developing a unified framework for the non-linear approach to hedging and pricing of OTC...

Alba Navarro, Guillem Clot, Cristina Royo, Pedro Jares, Anastasia Hadzidimitriou, Andreas Agathangelidis, Vasilis Bikos, Nikos Darzentas, Theodora Papadaki, Itziar Salaverria, Magda Pinyol, Xavier Puig, Jara Palomero, Maria Carmela Vegliante, Virgina Amador, Alejandra Martinez-Trillos, Lenka Stefancikova, Adrian Wiestner, Wyndham Wilson, Christiane Pott, Maria Jose Calasanz, Nicola Trim, Wendy ...

Recent changes in the German energy policy initiated a deregulation process from a monopolistic to a competitive market, fundamentally changing the market structure, transaction relationships and trading processes. While the mutual exchange of electric energy has been a business activity between vertically integrated utilities for a long time, wholesale electricity trading in an open market onl...

In this paper, a field test platform called OTTCAP (OTT Services Capture and Analyze Platform) is developed for capturing and analyzing QoS (Quality of Service) and QoE (Quality of Experience) parameters of OTT (over-the-top) services in HSPA+ (Evolved High Speed Packet Access) networks, including Network-Level and Application-Level QoS parameters, terminal parameters and wireless environment p...