Currency logistics is becoming a field of increasing interest and importance both in government and academic circles. In this paper, a basic description of China's nationwide logistics network for the Renminbi is discussed and analyzed. In addition to its basic structure, its key problems such...

The correlation network amongst a group of twenty mutual funds spread across ten countries in seven different regions is studied. Using techniques from complex networks, it is shown that a chain of transmission can allow large scale volatility and financial turmoil to spread between markets. A...

Currency logistics is becoming a field of increasing interest and importance both in practitioners and academic circle. In this paper, China's nationwide logistics network for the Renminbi is discussed. In addition to its basic structure, its key problems such as production costs, inventory...

One of the basic tenets of materials management in manufacturing is the holding of inventory to meet specified customer service levels. Increases in safety stock can usually only be avoided by initiatives such as forecasting, just-in-time, or lean manufacturing whose combined result is to...

In a 1974 paper, Coale and Trussell described an empirical relationship between the age-specific fertility rate, the marital fertility rate, and the proportion of women with first marriages. However, their key assumption was no nonmarital fertility. This obscures the relationship between...

The credit crisis roiling the world's financial markets will likely take years and entire careers to fully understand and analyze. A short empirical investigation of the current trends, however, demonstrates that the losses in certain markets, in this case the US equity markets, follow a cascade...

Attempts to accurately measure the monetary velocity or related properties of Bitcoin have often attempted to either directly apply definitions from traditional macroeconomic theory or to use specialized metrics relative to the properties of the Blockchain such as bitcoin-days destroyed. In this...