We report on the design and implementation of a system that uses multiparty computation to enable banks to benchmark their customers’ confidential performance data against a large representative set of confidential performance data from a consultancy house. The system ensures that both the banks’ and the consultancy house’s data stays confidential, the banks as clients learn nothing but the com...

During the financial crisis in Asian countries such as Thailand, macro-economic aggregates were used to portray the health or state of the impacted economy. Negative GDP growth was taken to indicate a fall in household welfare, for example. Initially high interest rate policies to encourage foreign (re)investment and subsequent expansionary monetary and fiscal policies were the result. On top o...

M. Brodahl U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Water Management Research Unit, Fort Collins, CO 80526 Comparing distributions among fields, species, and management practices will help us understand the spatial dynamics of weed seed banks, but analyzing observational data requires nontraditional statistical methods. We used cluster analysis and classification and regre...

The assigned purpose of this paper is to explore new opportunities in liquidity management. The term is understood to mean a profitable mix of asset and liability management in the demanding new economic environment that is developing. My own preference is for the term "balance-sheet management" as a more accurate and concise way to describe the process. To establish a kind of controlling conte...