operations centers (MOC), in which multiple DMs with partial information and partial control over assets are involved in the development of operational level plans. The MOC emphasizes standardized processes and methods, centralized assessment and guidance, networked distributed planning capabilities, and decentralized execution for assessing, planning and executing missions across a range of mi...

As part of the recent comprehensive revision of the ’s,  introduced an improved methodology for calculating depreciation. The improved methodology uses empirical evidence on the prices of used equipment and structures in resale markets, which has shown that depreciation for most types of assets approximates a geometric pattern. Previously, the depreciation estimates were derived using st...

operations centers (MOC), in which multiple DMs with partial information and partial control over assets are involved in the development of operational level plans. The MOC emphasizes standardized processes and methods, centralized assessment and guidance, networked distributed planning capabilities, and decentralized execution for assessing, planning and executing missions across a range of mi...

Intangible assets are a very economically significant asset class yet are largely excluded by accounting conventions from corporate balance sheets. Ownership (or control) of intangible assets can allow firms to differentiate their offerings to customers and establish some degree of competitive advantage. However, intangibles do not, apart from a few cases of licensing, generate value on their o...

Bitcoin is an online distributed ledger in which coins are distributed according to the unspent transaction output (UTXO) set, and transactions describe changes to this set. Every UTXO has associated to it an amount and signature verification key, representing the quantity that can be spent and the entity authorized to do so, respectively. Because the ledger is distributed and publicly verifiab...

A 2015 Lancet paper by Patel et al. on healthcare access in India comprehensively discussed national health programmes where some benefits are linked with the country's Below Poverty Line (BPL) registration scheme. BPL registration aims to support poor families by providing free/subsidised healthcare. Technical issues in obtaining BPL registration by poor families have been previously reported ...

Bernanke (2005) hypothesized that a "global savings glut" was causing large trade imbalances. However, we show that the global savings rates did not show a robust upward trend during the relevant period. Moreover, if there had been a global savings glut there should have been a large investment boom in the countries that imported capital. Instead, those countries experienced consumption booms. ...

Nonperforming assets (NPA) reflect the risk factor of the concerned commercial bank. Some of these banks operate at a threshold point where further reduction of NPA is not possible without reducing loans and advances, a desirable output. Pursuing an additive slack based efficiency DEA model the potential rate of reduction of NPA is explored for 50 commercial banks operating on Indian soil.

We present a model incorporating both social and economic components, and analyze their interaction. The notion of a social asset, an attribute that has value only because of the social institutions governing society, is introduced. In the basic model, agents match on the basis of income and unproductive attributes. An attribute has value in some equilibrium social institutions (matching patter...

We are living in the age of information technology and software has become the driving force behind almost everything being done all around the world. The people developing this software are, thus, the real assets in the present world; ordinary people whose brains are working day and night to bring the extraordinary technical touches in our day-to-day lives. Therefore, taking care of these valu...