Innovation in land transport management has revolutionised public and private transport in Singapore. The Electronic Road Pricing (ERP) is a good case study for this. Using Albury’s framework of public sector innovation, this paper investigates the sources, drivers, barriers and risks of the...

A technology of 3 D object description is realized in VRML 2.0 and is not very convenient for the geometrical smooths surfaces creations. Making this smooth consturction by some external software layer by layer, we are facing to some constructor difficulties, which lead to the algorithm...

This paper addresses recently raised concerns that cryptocurrency protocols are not quantum computer proof. We present clear evidence that attacks on bitcoin using quantum computers are not viable in terms of economic costs. The economic argument is presented under two strong assumptions: (i)...

Can algorithms assist firms in their decisions on nominating corporate directors? We construct algorithms to make out-of-sample predictions of director performance. Tests of the quality of these predictions show that directors predicted to do poorly indeed do poorly compared to a realistic pool...

This paper is a meta-analysis of national case studies of the governance of cybersecurity in Australia, South Africa and the United Kingdom. It examines its meanings in antitrust, crime, defence, intelligence, privacy, etc. It considers how governments and parliaments have responded to the...

This paper documents that an increase in the enforcement of value-added tax (VAT) caused by the adoption of a new technology significantly increased VAT payments by large manufacturing firms in China. The reform contributed to 27.1% of VAT revenues and 12.9% of total government revenues in the...

In the first half of the twentieth century, economists associated with the Austrian school argued information necessary to effective economic calculation requires the use of market prices and cannot be centralized in a way that would make central planning a viable alternative. It followed from...

An algorithm for computing the determinant of a matrix whose entries are multivariate polynomials is presented. It is based on classical multivariate Lagrange polynomial interpolation, and it exploits the Kronecker product structure of the coefficient matrix of the linear system associated with...