This book covers themes such as handheld computing for mobile commerce, handheld computing research and technologies, wireless networks and handheld/mobile security, and handheld images and video. It includes research and development results in the theory, design, implementation, analysis, and...

A 2D barcode validation system for mobile commerce / David Kuo ... [et al.] -- Threshold-based location-aware access control / Roel Peeters, Dave Singelée, Bart Preneel -- Survivability enhancing techniques for RFID Systems / Yanjun Zuo -- Mobile agent based network defense system in enterprise...

Section I. Mobile Commerce Systems and Handheld Devices -- 1. Fundamentals of Mobile Commerce Systems -- 2. Mobile Commerce Applications -- 3. Mobile Handheld Devices -- 4. Essential Mobile-Commerce Technology --

We find evidence of a bank lending channel for the euro area operating via bank risk. Financial innovation and the new ways to transfer credit risk have tended to diminish the informational content of standard bank balance-sheet indicators. We show that bank risk conditions, as perceived by...

The aim of this paper is to design the optimal institutional arrangement for a monetary union. Using a two-country rational expectations model, the study analyses how the conservatism of the area-wide central bank and the penalty system for fiscal deviation (Stability and Growth Pact) should be...

The global financial crisis has reaffirmed the importance of financial factors for macroeconomic fluctuations. Recent work has shown how the conventional pre-crisis prescription that monetary policy should pay no attention to financial variables over and above their effects on inflation may no...

The dramatic increase in securitisation activity has modified the functioning of credit markets by reducing the fundamental role of liquidity transformation performed by financial intermediaries. We claim that the changing role of banks from �originate and hold� to �originate,...