This study analyses the current competitive performances of SEACEN countries and suggest policies for their improvement. It focuses on a discussion of analytical frameworks than on drawing specific conclusions about each country's competitive standing.

This study takes a pedagogical approach to securitisation. The findings suggest that although securitisation has a huge potential for deepending the debt securities market in the SEACEN countries, the prudential risk involved could destabilise the financial market. Thus, managing the risk...

There is a large disparity in the amount of wind power capacity installed in each of the states in the U.S. It is often thought that the different policies of individual state governments are the main reason for these differences, but this may not necessarily be the case. The aim of this paper...

In this paper, we present a novel multi-modal optimization algorithm for finding multiple local optima in objective function surfaces. We build from Species-based particle swarm optimization (SPSO) by using deterministic sampling to generate new particles during the optimization process, by...