Uniswap is a decentralized exchange (DEX) and was first launched on November 2, 2018 on the Ethereum mainnet [1] and is part of an Ecosystem of products in Decentralized Finance (DeFi). It replaces a traditional order book type of trading common on centralized exchanges (CEX) with a...

How do you value companies which have IPOed recently? How do you compare them amongst their peers? Valuing companies using a linear extrapolation of their revenues and profits leads to an ingenious method to benchmark stocks against each other. Here we present such a method, dubbed the growth...

In contrast to financial arbitrage, which causes prices of economically equivalent transactions to converge in the direction of one price, regulatory arbitrage does not lead to such price convergence. In contrast, regulatory arbitrage tends to produce two different prices for economically...

Polite self-presentation is expected of call center agents even through they must convey complex and unfavorable information speedily via the telephone. This study identified and evaluated the use of response strategies that are strongly associated with courtesy. Data were drawn from 587...

This study aimed at exploring how formal contractual agreements are predicted by Transaction Cost Analysis (TCA) theory using firms from emerging markets. The setting of this study was Tanzania. Dependent variable was formal contractual agreement, while performance ambiguity and buyer asset...

This paper studies a simultaneous vehicle and crew routing and scheduling problem arising in long-distance road transport in Europe: Pickup-and-delivery requests have to be fulfilled over a multi-period planning horizon by a heterogeneous fleet of trucks and drivers. Typically, in the vehicle...

In this paper, a simple dynamic model of efficient firm-level managerial resource allocation to two uses, one involving productivity activities and another one involving corruption activities to "get things done" was developed. The model follows the optimal control theory process. Two...

Based on empirical data, a two-equation game-type corruption reaction function model was developed. A "data to model" approach was used rather than the usual a priori approach. The general hypothesis tested was the "monkey see, monkey do" principle. The latest data on corruption among developing...

For strategic purposes of setting price and productivity targets, organizations need to make projection of long-term cost as well as short-term cost estimation. For long-term cost estimation, organizations do rely on the experience curve among other methodologies. However, for short-term cost...

Always, anytime, we speak about innovation, that it occurs in our live, firms, countries and regions.The innovation is very important for survive of any firm, any entrepreneur, any country and any region in world market due to their speed evolution.This paper has as objective to approach the...