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• Sarbanes-Oxley, Corporate Governance And Operational Risk

  BNET - 2004-07-22

  The paper presents general discussion of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and its wider implications, with particular reference to operational risk management. The discussion concentrates upon conceptual issues: how one should define operational risk, how it can be measured, and some standard statements about operational risks which strike me as ill-conceived. In...

  Tags: Risk, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Corporate Governance, University Of Oxford, Sarbanes-Oxley, Regulatory Compliance, Regulations, Strategy, Security, Government, Financial Accounting, Finance, Human Resources, Policies And Procedures, Management

• Supermarket Choice and Supermarket Competition in Market Equilibrium

  BNET - 2002-05-01

  Multi-store firms are common in the retailing industry. Theory suggests that cross-elasticities between stores of the same firm enhance market power. To evaluate the importance of this effect in the UK supermarket industry, the paper estimates a model of consumer choice and expenditure using three data sources: profit margins for...

  Tags: University Of Oxford, Consumer Choice, Strategy, Management

• CURVES: Curve Evolution for Vessel Segmentation

  BNET - 2001-11-27

  This paper addresses the problem of automatic segmentation of complicated curvilinear structures in three-dimensional imagery, with the primary application of segmenting vasculature in magnetic resonance angiography MRA images. The method presented is based on recent curve and surface evolution work in the computer vision community which models the object boundary...

  Tags: Segmentation, University Of Oxford, Productivity, Strategy, Management