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Probability of informed trading: an empirical application to the euro overnight market rate.
This paper presents a microstructure model for the unsecured overnight euro money market, similar to that developed for stock markets by Easley and O'Hara (1992). More specifically, this paper studies the role of heterogeneity in the population of banks participating on this market, and the influence of the institutional framework and market organizational aspects of the overnight deposit market. A first empirical assessment of the functioning of this market is based on the probability of informed trade which measures the ability of traders (banks) to interpret signals on the expected evolution of the overnight rate. This indicator is estimated on real-time data publicly available to market participants. Results show that between 2000 and 2004 a heterogeneous learning process of market mechanisms within participants could be observed. From 2005 onwards, however, heterogeneity in the learning process sharply decreased. Moreover, the empirical evidence show that the March 2004 changes in Eurosystem's operational framework have modified the informational patterns of order flow in the euro area money market: informed trades became even more predominant between the last main refinancing operation and the end of the reserves maintenance period than they were before March 2004.Euro overnight market ; PIN models ; Microstructure, Monetary policy.
Spontaneous polarization and piezoelectricity in boron nitride nanotubes
Ab initio calculations of the spontaneous polarization and piezoelectric
properties of boron nitride nanotubes show that they are excellent
piezoelectric systems with response values larger than those of piezoelectric
polymers. The intrinsic chiral symmetry of the nanotubes induces an exact
cancellation of the total spontaneous polarization in ideal, isolated nanotubes
of arbitrary indices. Breaking of this symmetry by inter-tube interaction or
elastic deformations induces spontaneous polarization comparable to those of
wurtzite semiconductors.Comment: 5 pages in PRB double column format, 3 figure
Modeling and Analysis of Content Caching in Wireless Small Cell Networks
Network densification with small cell base stations is a promising solution
to satisfy future data traffic demands. However, increasing small cell base
station density alone does not ensure better users quality-of-experience and
incurs high operational expenditures. Therefore, content caching on different
network elements has been proposed as a mean of offloading he backhaul by
caching strategic contents at the network edge, thereby reducing latency. In
this paper, we investigate cache-enabled small cells in which we model and
characterize the outage probability, defined as the probability of not
satisfying users requests over a given coverage area. We analytically derive a
closed form expression of the outage probability as a function of
signal-to-interference ratio, cache size, small cell base station density and
threshold distance. By assuming the distribution of base stations as a Poisson
point process, we derive the probability of finding a specific content within a
threshold distance and the optimal small cell base station density that
achieves a given target cache hit probability. Furthermore, simulation results
are performed to validate the analytical model.Comment: accepted for publication, IEEE ISWCS 201
Nonlocal gravity and the diffusion equation
We propose a nonlocal scalar-tensor model of gravity with pseudodifferential
operators inspired by the effective action of p-adic string and string field
theory on flat spacetime. An infinite number of derivatives act both on the
metric and scalar field sector. The system is localized via the diffusion
equation approach and its cosmology is studied. We find several exact dynamical
solutions, also in the presence of a barotropic fluid, which are stationary in
the diffusion flow. In particular, and contrary to standard general relativity,
there exist solutions with exponential and power-law scale factor also in an
open universe, as well as solutions with sudden future singularities or a
bounce. Also, from the point of view of quantum field theory, spontaneous
symmetry breaking can be naturally realized in the class of actions we
consider.Comment: 18 pages, 5 figures. v2: typos corrected, references added. Major
changes are an expansion of the discussion of homogeneous perturbations and
the inclusion of cosmological fluids in the dynamic
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