Monday, September 15, 2014

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Vendor News: Infosys Foundation Launches Spark-IT to Enhance Employability of Engineering Graduates

Posted: 15 Sep 2014 02:46 AM PDT

Infosys Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Infosys, today launched Spark-IT, a program to enhance the skill levels of engineering graduates in the country. Infosys Foundation has several programs aimed at alleviating hunger, promoting education, improving health, assisting rural development, supporting arts and helping the destitute.

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Published / Preprint: Beyond the Power Law: Uncovering Stylized Facts in Interbank Networks. (arXiv:1409.3738v1 [q-fin.GN])

Posted: 14 Sep 2014 05:37 PM PDT

We use daily data on bilateral interbank exposures and monthly bank balance sheets to study network characteristics of the Russian interbank market over Aug 1998 - Oct 2004. Specifically, we examine the distributions of (un)directed (un)weighted degree, nodal attributes (bank assets, capital and capital-to-assets ratio) and edge weights (loan size and counterparty exposure). We search for the...

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Published / Preprint: The World Trade Web: A Multiple-Network Perspective. (arXiv:1409.3799v1 [physics.soc-ph])

Posted: 14 Sep 2014 05:37 PM PDT

International Trade (IT) plays a fundamental role in today's economy: by connecting world countries production and consumption processes, it radically contributes in shaping their economy and development path. Although its evolving structure and determinants have been widely analyzed in the literature, much less has been done to understand its interplay with other complex phenomena. The aim of...

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Published / Preprint: 14Sep/September 2014 Quarterly Review: Volatility stirs, markets unshaken

Posted: 14 Sep 2014 10:18 AM PDT

BIS Quarterly Review - 14 September 2014 (BIS Press Release)

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