infonet-economy

The nexus between ownership and competition in the banking sector is a major concern to policymakers around the world but one that is rarely comprehensively examined. For 131 countries and 13 years we match bank ownership with over 50,000 bank-year estimates of individual bank market power. We find that ownership does not explain market power at the individual bank level. However, at...

In this paper, a new technique for pricing of European and American Parisian options, that we call the québécoisation method, is developed. We study the pricing of Parisian options in a hyper-exponential jump-diffusion model using the double Laplace-Carson transform with respect to the time to maturity and the residual Parisian time (time to expiration of the Parisian window) of the...

Under the TRIPS Agreement (Art. 41 para. 5) countries are given the option to create specialised
intellectual property (IP) courts. On this basis, countries are free to decide what types of judicial
body or bodies have the jurisdiction to hear IP disputes. Although IP disputes are sometimes
primarily viewed as relating to the enforcement of intellectual property...

There exist many popular crowdsourcing and social services (Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI)) to share information and documents such as Flickr, Foursquare, Twitter , Facebook, etc. They all use metadata, folksonomy and more importantly a geographic axis with GPS coordinates and/or geographic tags. Using this available folksonomy in VGI services we propose a logical approach...

The human knee joint is the largest and most complex joint of the human body. The interdependencies encountered in the musculoskeletal system are crucial in understanding musculoskeletal conditions. Patient-specific models are promising methods to unravel clinical diagnosis. However, as the range of medical and experimental data is expanding, it has become a challenge to integrate...

We propose the extraction of musculoskeletal structures (bones, muscles) from the lower limb, following three main objectives: development of an MRI protocol, processing and labelling of the image data, and the exploitation of multi-channel data during the segmentation of individual muscles. We propose an MR acquisition protocol that generates seamless, high-resolution images of...