Abstract: Cryptocurrencies (e.g., Bitcoin and Ethereum), which promise to become the future of money transactions, are mainly implemented with blockchain technology. However, blockchain suffers from ...

Interest Rate Probability Distributions Implied by Derivatives Prices is a daily measure of the distribution of future short-term interest rates, calculated from prices of fixed-income derivatives ...

Hypergeometric expansions are found for incomplete and absolute moments of the bivariate normal distribution. The use of incomplete moments in problems of truncation is indicated and a table of ...

Future events are far from certain in the business world. This is especially true for smaller businesses, which tend to have more volatility than larger organizations, or newer businesses without a ...

1 Department of Mathematics, Kotebe University of Education, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia 2 Department of Statistics, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia The main purpose of this paper is to ...

Private foundations contribute a staggering $105.21 billion to public charities annually, representing $1 out of every $5 donated. Internal Revenue Code Section 4942 requires private nonoperating PFs ...

The focus of this article is on the nature of the likelihood associated with N-mixture models for repeated count data. It is shown that the infinite sum embedded in the likelihood associated with the ...

Since the Roth IRA was introduced in 1998, the Roth-versus-traditional-IRA debate has been a hot topic, with various arguments being made for one or the other. A key selling point for those who favor ...

Christy Bieber has a JD from UCLA School of Law and began her career as a college instructor and textbook author. She has been writing full time for over a decade with a focus on making financial and ...

Paleoecological studies incorporating spores of coprophilous fungi (hereafter coprophilous fungal spores, or CFS) in interpretations of herbivore abundance and activity have drastically increased ...