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Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2011
Service Systems Implementation provides the latest applications and practices aimed at improving the key performance indicators of service systems, especially those related to service quality, service productivity, regulatory compliance, and sustainable service innovation. The book presents action-oriented,...
by Luke Drago Spajic
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Two items were firmly on the European economic agenda in the 1990s: financial market integration and the creation of a common or single currency. The former was supposed to have been achieved in 1992 (via the Single Market Act, with some derogations), and the latter came into being on January 1, 1999....
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Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
This book deals with the role of the State in pension provision as an employer, regulator and provider. Part I deals with problems and reforms of public sector pension systems in OECD countries. The countries covered are Denmark, Finland, Germany, The Netherlands, Norway, and the USA. Part II considers...
Distribution Planning and Control
Managing in the Era of Supply Chain Management
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2015
This third edition provides operations management students, academics and professionals with a fully up-to-date, practical and comprehensive sourcebook in the science of distribution and Supply Chain Management (SCM). Its objective is not only to discover the roots and detail the techniques of supply...
The Economics of Audit Quality
Private Incentives and the Regulation of Audit and Non-Audit Services
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
This book focuses on market mechanisms which protect quality in the provision of audit services. The role of public regulation is thus situated in the context defmed by the presence of these safeguard mechanisms. The book aims to contribute to a better understanding of these market mechanisms, which...
Malliavin Calculus and Stochastic Analysis
A Festschrift in Honor of David Nualart
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
The stochastic calculus of variations of Paul Malliavin (1925 - 2010), known today as the Malliavin Calculus, has found many applications, within and beyond the core mathematical discipline. Stochastic analysis provides a fruitful interpretation of this calculus, particularly as described by David...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2010
Quantitative finance is a combination of economics, accounting, statistics, econometrics, mathematics, stochastic process, and computer science and technology. Increasingly, the tools of financial analysis are being applied to assess, monitor, and mitigate risk, especially in the context of globalization,...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2013
Game theory has been applied to a growing list of practical problems, from antitrust analysis to monetary policy; from the design of auction institutions to the structuring of incentives within firms; from patent races to dispute resolution. The purpose of Game Theory and Business Applications is...
New Directions in Real Estate Finance and Investment
Maastricht-Cambridge Symposium 2000
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
Research in real estate finance and economics has developed in an exciting way in the past twenty-five years or so. The resulting theoretical and empirical findings are shining a new light on some of the classic mysteries of the real estate markets. It is good to see that a growing proportion of this...
Valuation, Hedging and Speculation in Competitive Electricity Markets
A Fundamental Approach
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The challenges currently facing particIpants m competitive electricity markets are unique and staggering: unprecedented price volatility, a crippling lack of historical market data on which to test new modeling approaches, and a continuously changing regulatory structure. Meeting these challenges...
How to Write a Successful Research Grant Application
A Guide for Social and Behavioral Scientists
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2010
Over the last fifty years behavioral and medical research has been generously supported by the federal government, private foundations, and other philanthropic organizations contributing to the development of a vibrant public health system both in the United States and worldwide. However, these funds...
Postal and Delivery Services
Delivering on Competition
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Postal and Delivery Services: Delivering on Competition is an indispensable source of information and analysis on the current state of the postal and delivery sector. It offers current insight into strategy, regulation as well as the economics of this sector. Issues addressed include international...
Knowledge Management
Processes and Technologies
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
A compact guide to knowledge management, this book makes the subject accessible without oversimplifying it. Organizational issues like strategy and culture are discussed in the context of typical knowledge management processes. The focus is always on pointing out all the issues that need to be taken...
Effects of Deregulation on Safety
Implications Drawn from the Aviation, Rail, and United Kingdom Nuclear Power Industries
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Effects of Deregulation on Safety provides a comprehensive overview of the safety experiences of these three case study industries and their implications for the U.S. nuclear power industry. The treatment of the subject is not highly technical, and hence is accessible to a wide range of readers with...