The present article focuses on whether the Bitcoin shows sign of increased confidence as a value storage vehicle, prerequisite to becoming fully fledged currency. Using Bloomberg data over period 2008-2017, we find cointegration relationship between dollar prices Bitcoin, Gold and Swiss Franc. two latter assets are classic safe haven assets, suggesting that at least some buyers interested in bo...

1 Summary In Western Africa, two economic integrations, WAEMU (West African Economic and Monetary Union) and ECOWAS(Economic Community of West African Countries) exist. WAEMU is consisted of eight countries around French possession in Africa and issued the unique legal tender, the CFA franc. On the other hand, ECOWAS is the wider economic integration for 15 countries encompassing the entire WAE...

Equivalence Classes of Circuit Mutants for Experimental Design Debabrata Ghosh Franc Brglez CBL (Collaborative Benchmarking Lab), Dept. of Computer Science, Box 7550 NC State University, Raleigh, NC 27695, USA http://www.cbl.ncsu.edu/ Abstract { Experimental Design, as de ned in science and manufacturing, relies on data sets that belong to well-de ned equivalence classes. This paper introduces ...

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Varietal Thiols in Wine: Discovery, Analysis and Applications Aur elie Roland, R emi Schneider,* Alain Razungles, and Florine Cavelier* Interloire, 12 rue Etienne Pallu, BP 1921, 37019 Tours Cedex 01, France UMR 1083 Sciences pour l’!nologie, INRA, SupAgro, Universit e Montpellier I, 34060 Montpellier Cedex 01, France Institut Franc ) ais de la Vigne et du Vin, at UMR 1083 Sciences pour l’!nolo...

This paper characterizes the integration patterns of international currency unions (such as the CFA Franc zone). We empirically explore different features of currency unions, and compare them to countries with sovereign monies by examining the criteria for Mundell’s concept of an optimum currency area. We find that members of currency unions are more integrated than countries with their own cur...