Physica Verlag Hd: 128 books
Financial Intermediation and Deregulation
A Critical Analysis of Japanese Bank-Firm Relationships
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The author develops a model of bank-firm relationships on the basis of the following general idea: Banks want to prevent moral hazard on the side of their customers. In particular they want to prevent their business customers to use bank credit for purposes different from those that have been negotiated...
The Reasons for Underdevelopment
The Case of Decolonisation in Somaliland
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2011
The history of Italian colonial affairs has recently attracted renewed interest from historians and economists. It is a complex and involved question. Over the last few years, though perhaps slightly later than the more mature historiography of other European countries, the work of some important...
Reputation Transfer to Enter New B-to-B Markets
Measuring and Modelling Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2009
An increasing number of products and services are not differentiated by inherent features, but by the vendors, particularly their reputation and marketing commu- cation. Consequently, a positive reputation provides competing vendors with a virtually inimitable competitive advantage. Contemporary research...
Managing Organizational Culture for Effective Internal Control
From Practice to Theory
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2009
In times of economic and financial crises, the content of this book rings true. Drawing from interviews with executives, senior managers and/or auditors from renowned companies (eBay, Google, Hewlett Packard, Intel, Levi Strauss & Co., Microsoft, Novartis and many others) and theory from fields...
Corporate Foresight
Towards a Maturity Model for the Future Orientation of a Firm
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2010
Have you ever wondered why even large companies fail when faced with changes in their environment? Would you be surprised to learn that the average life expectancy of a Fortune 500 company is below 50 years? This book presents findings from 19 case studies in multinational companies such as Siemens,...
Territorial Governance
Local Development, Rural Areas and Agrofood Systems
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2011
This work aims to present the most recent developments regarding territorial governance, placing particular emphasis on rural and periurban areas. The reader will find information on the processes of development of European regions, as well as on the behaviours and strategies adopted by the different...
Implicit Embedded Options in Life Insurance Contracts
A Market Consistent Valuation Framework
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2012
This book presents a market-consistent valuation framework for implicit embedded options in life insurance contracts. This framework is used to perform an empirical analysis based on more than 110,000 actual and in-force life insurance policies and with a focus on the modeling of interest rates. Its...
by Jella Pfeiffer
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2011
This book gives recommendations on which interactive decision aids to offer in webstores. Interactive decision aids are tools that help online shoppers to compare and evaluate product information. Consumers can, for instance, exclude products that do not meet certain criteria, they can highlight certain...
Exploring Research Frontiers in Contemporary Statistics and Econometrics
A Festschrift for Léopold Simar
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2011
This book collects contributions written by well-known statisticians and econometricians to acknowledge Léopold Simar’s far-reaching scientific impact on Statistics and Econometrics throughout his career. The papers contained herein were presented at a conference in
Louvain-la-Neuve in May 2009...
Effective Tax Burden in Europe
Current Situation, Past Developments and Simulations of Reforms
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Our small book presents areport which has been prepared in the year 2000 for the Taxation and Custorns Union Directorate General of the European Commission, under contract no. T AXUD / 00 / 312. Some of the results form part of the report "Company Taxation in the Internal Market" of the...
Governance Structures and Mechanisms in Public Service Organizations
Theories, Evidence and Future Directions
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2011
This book addresses the nexus of issues exploring governance structures and mechanisms in public service organizations, thus contributing to the development of disciplines that focus on public management. It goes beyond the state of the art by addressing a number of specific issues in a more systematic...
Private Intergenerational Transfers and Population Aging
The German Case
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
In the forthcoming decades the industrialized countries will experience a demographic transition that is unprecedented in history. While the transition's impact on public pension schemes has extensively been examined, its implication for private intergenerational transfers has gone almost unnoticed...
Asymmetric Economic Integration
Size Characteristics of Economies, Trade Costs and Welfare
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2012
This book investigates whether the effects of economic integration differ according to the size of countries. The analysis incorporates a classification of the size of countries, reflecting the key economic characteristics of economies in order to provide an appropriate benchmark for each size group...
by Pablo Coto-Millán
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
In this book the reader is provided with an overview of the most interesting ideas in Competitive General Equilibrium Theory as well as Welfare Economy. In doing so, the author adopts a methodological approach of a closed and inter-related system where all variables are simultaneously determined....