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• FDI In Emerging Markets: How Are They Doing - And What Should They Be Doing?

  BNET - 2007-03-08

  How are emerging markets doing in terms of attracting Foreign Direct Investment FDI, something all of them need, and are seeking, to further their economic development? What should they do to attract more, and especially investment that is particularly important for their development? This paper explains all the above questions.

  Tags: Emerging Market, University Of Oxford, Foreign Direct Investment, Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), Currency & Foreign Exchange, Investment, Marketing Research, Financial Services, Finance, Marketing

• Deep Blue Marine Announces 17th-Century Anchor Discovery

  - 2006-10-02

  KEY WEST, Fla. -- Wilf Blum, President and CEO of Deep Blue Marine Inc. (Pink Sheets:DPBM), announces that pictures of a circa 17th-century anchor discovered near Woman Key and Ballast Key in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary will be posted on the website at www.alldeepblue.com today. Deep Blue Marine...

  Tags: FINANCE, MARKETING, sonar, survey, University of Oxford

• Two new Non-Executive Directors for Ordnance Survey.

  - 2006-08-01

  M2 PRESSWIRE-1 August 2006-ORDNANCE SURVEY: Two new Non-Executive Directors for Ordnance SurveyC1994-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:01082006 Two new Non-Executive Directors have been appointed to the board of Britain's national mapping agency. Lady Robin Katherine Innes Ker joins Ordnance Survey...

  Tags: director, FINANCE, Lady, MARKETING, University of Oxford

• Cruise lines signing up notable entertainment

  - 2004-07-02

  Looks as if the cruise industry is no longer clowning around when it comes to entertainment. Celebrity Cruises' announcement last week that it signed the celebrated circus company Cirque du Soleil to perform is just the latest move to improve on-board offerings by bringing in big-name outsiders. Other...

  Tags: Cirque du Soleil, entertainment, FINANCE, MARKETING, Strategy, University of Oxford

• Distinguished Limits of Levy-Stable Processes, and Applications to Option Pricing

  BNET - 2004-03-27

  This paper derives analytic expressions for the value of European put and call options when the stock process follows an exponential Levy-Stable process. It is shown that the generalized Black-Scholes operator for the Levy-Stable case can be obtained as an asymptotic approximation of a process where the random variable follows...

  Tags: Pricing Strategy, University Of Oxford, Investment, Pricing, Financial Accounting, Finance, Marketing

• Option Pricing With Levy-Stable Process

  BNET - 2004-03-26

  Up until the early 1990's most of the underlying stochastic processes used in the financial literature were based on a combination of Brownian motion and Poisson processes. This paper shows how to calculate European-style option prices when the log-stock and stock returns processes follow a symmetric Levy-Stable process. The paper...

  Tags: Pricing Strategy, University Of Oxford, Financial Accounting, Pricing, Finance, Marketing

• Globalisation is talk topic.

  - 2002-12-08

  Dec 08, 2002 (The Sunday Times - ABIX via COMTEX) World-renowned economic commentator, Professor David Henderson, is visiting Western Australia. On 11 December 2002, Henderson, a former head of economics at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation & Development in Paris, will deliver a...

  Tags: FINANCE, lecture, MARKETING, University of Oxford

• Economic development: survey of course outlines in North American universities

  - 2002-03-22

  The survey is undertaken in response to feedback received from readers on earlier surveys conducted by the author in different areas of economics. The present survey of economic development intends to enhance the quality of teaching and will enable instructors to update their reading lists. Students might find the information...

  Tags: FINANCE, G., income, M., MARKETING, Peterson, Poverty, Studies, survey, theory, University of Oxford, World Bank

• Trading Volume and Stochastic Volatility

  BNET - 2001-05-19

  This paper develops a subordinated stochastic process model for asset prices, where the directing process is identified as information. Motivated by empirical and theoretical work, the paper makes use of the under-used market statistic of transaction count as a suitable proxy for the information flow. An option pricing formula is...

  Tags: Volatility, University Of Oxford, Option Pricing Formula, Investment, Pricing, Finance, Marketing

• Neal-Schuman Releases New Digitization Handbook and Internet Management Book.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)

  - 2001-02-01

  Neal-Schuman Publishers, Inc. has released two new titles for libraries that need to manage digital resources. The first is Digital Imaging: A Practical Handbook, by Stuart Lee of Oxford University Computing Services (ISBN: 1-55570-405-0, $55). It takes the reader through the digitization process from beginning to...

  Tags: FINANCE, INTERNET, librarian, marketing, preservation, SOFTWARE, University of Oxford