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  1. 1. The Illumination of Money : An Ethnography of Bitcoin in El Salvador

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Socialantropologiska institutionen

    Author : Anton Angwald; [2023]
    Keywords : infrastructure; payment; bitcoin; financial inclusion; el salvador; future imaginaries; speculation; infrastruktur; betalning; bitcoin; finans; el salvador; framtidsstudier; spekulation; pengar;

    Abstract : Money can be understood as a disembedding mechanism, detaching social relations from a spatiotemporal context. However, different infrastructural instantiations of money make visible–and invisible–different qualities of money. READ MORE

  3. 2. To know the self as a matrix of maybe : An account of the specialness of self-knowledge

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Avdelningen för teoretisk filosofi

    Author : Konstantin Andreev; [2020]
    Keywords : the self; self-knowledge; self-reflection; selfhood; choice; Sartre; Being and Nothingness; participant perspective; nonfactual prospection; matrix of maybe; alternative futures; L’être et le néant;

    Abstract : The essay is an attempt to make sense of the apparently special relation between self-knowledge and agency. To achieve that goal, the essay translates the account of what it is like to be a human self offered by Sartre into the language of evolutionary psychology. READ MORE

  4. 3. Exceptional Actors Implementing Exception Handling for Encore

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för informationsteknologi

    Author : Sahand Shamal Taher; [2017]
    Keywords : ;

    Abstract : Encore is an object-oriented programming language which uses the acto rmodel as its concurrency model, and is specifically aimed atimplementing concurrent and parallel systems. Communication between actors is done via asynchronous method calls, which store their results in futures, placeholder objects for later storing the result of a computation. READ MORE

  5. 4. Empirical Research on Information Transmission in the Hang Seng Index Markets: Evidence from Index Futures, Flagship Index and Finance Index

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionen

    Author : Lang Qin; Yang Zhou; [2013]
    Keywords : Hang Seng Index Futures market; Volatility Spillovers; Financial Crisis; BEKK model; Business and Economics;

    Abstract : This paper investigates the price discovery mechanism in the Hang Seng Index markets. The analysis is based on the cross-market volatility spillover effects by using the daily sets of Hang Seng Index (HSI), Hang Seng Finance Index (HSFIN), and Hang Seng Index futures (HSCIS00). READ MORE

  6. 5. Intertemporal Allocation of Indivisible and Durable Goods

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionen

    Author : Jörgen Kratz; [2013]
    Keywords : intertemporal allocation; futures mechanism; endowments; Business and Economics;

    Abstract : This paper presents a futures mechanism, as defined by Kurino (2009), allocating a set of indivisible and durable goods among a set of agents over multiple time periods. The mechanism is shown to satisfy individual rationality, Pareto efficiency and non-bossiness for allocation problems with or without endowments. READ MORE