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- Uniqueness of the Fair Premium for Equity-Linked Life Insurance Contracts
- This paper analyzes a contract with periodic premium payments. At each premium date the insurance company invests a certain fraction of the premium in a specific mutual fund. The guaranteed amount will be a function of time and the periodic premium. The bonus has similarities to an Asian option with...
- White papers 2003-07-17
- Strategic Incentives for Managers in Contests
- The separation of ownership from management implies a wide range of agency problems in corporations. The paper argues that while it is well-known in the principal-agent framework that owners should compensate their managers according to profits instead of sales, the same may not hold in a strategic context. Here, it...
- White papers 2002-04-09
- Periphera Expertise Awareness - Sharing Knowledge on Knowledge
- This paper presents an innovative approach to solve the problem of missing transparency over competences within virtual organizations. Former studies have shown that central storage of profiles is inappropriate due to missing flexibility and high costs on maintenance. The approach presented here to support the peripheral awareness of competence-indicating events....
- White papers 2003-07-02
- Going Private Via LBO - Shareholder Gains In The European Markets
- This paper investigates market reactions after Public to Private (P2P) announcements in the European market, using a data set from 1996-2002. Furthermore, different sources of value creation for pre-P2P shareholders are analyzed. The results of cross-sectional regression support the agency cost theory as companies with a high pre-P2P free float...
- White papers 2004-02-23
- Towards Semantic Grid In Construction Informatics
- Civil Engineering increasingly requires efficient Virtual Organizations of heterogeneous partners and facilities. Mainly four software architecture paradigms originating from the area of distributed computing have influenced the implementation of supporting software systems for Virtual Organizations: Grid, Peer-to-Peer, Agent as well as Web Service architectures. Each architecture paradigm accounts for different...
- White papers 2005-05-30
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- Study offers hope of cutting sudden heart attack deaths
- PARIS AFP — Grafting gene-altered cells onto cardiac tissue damaged by a heart attack dramatically reduces the risk of sudden death in mice and could one day do the same for humans, said a study released Wednesday. One in seven heart attack victims die abruptly within three years, mostly...
- Research articles 2007-12-05
- It's a small world after all: German researchers
- BONN, Germany AFP — The world is smaller than first thought, German researchers at the University of Bonn said on Thursday. They took part in an international project to measure the diameter of the world that showed it is five millimetres (0.2 inches) smaller than the last measurement made...
- Research articles 2007-07-05
- German, Romanian scientists claim gallstone gene discovery
- BERLIN AFP — German and Romanian scientists on Wednesday said they have discovered a gene which predisposes one in 10 Europeans to developing gallstones. The study carried out by the University of Bonn and the Cluj-Napoca University Clinic in Romania showed that people who carry this gene were two...
- Research articles 2007-07-11
- Feeling the Distance
- The ability of seals to orient themselves and find food in murky water has long intrigued scientists--especially in cases where thriving wild seals have been known to be blind. Now researchers at Germany's University of Bonn, working with a trained seal that was rewarded for its efforts with fish, have...
- Research articles 1998-12-01
- Magma Licenses IBM Physical Synthesis and Routing Technology
- SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- MagmaR Design Automation Inc. (Nasdaq:LAVA), a provider of semiconductor design software, today announced it has licensed IBM technology for physical synthesis and routing that was developed through IBM's long-term relationship with the Research Institute of Discrete Mathematics at the University of Bonn in Germany. This agreement...
- Research articles 2005-07-06
- US interest rates.
- Equity investors shouldn't worry so much about rising US interest rates, according to new research. "What the Federal Reserve does has less effect now on GDP than it used to," says Christian Melzer of the University of Bonn. In research presented to this week's...
- Research articles 2004-04-08
- Big explosion reveals most massive star known
- All supernova explosions are violent affairs, but this one takes the cake. Astronomers have spotted a new type of extremely bright cosmic explosion they think originates from an exceptionally massive star. This breed of explosion has been long predicted, but never before seen. Like all supernovas, the blast is thought...
- News items 2009-12-02
- Upcoming events
- December 6-7 International Course on Cultivation, Marketing & Food Safety of Agaricus bisporus--Organized by the National Autonomous University of Mexico UNAM, ECOSUR & The Pennsylvania State University. Mexico City * www.ecosur.mx 2008 May 21-24 17th Intern. Congress of the Science & Cultivation of Edible Fungi Cape...
- Research articles 2007-10-01
- Weekly Update
- TEXAS RENEWABLES '05, November 13-15, 2005, Hilton University of Houston, Houston, Texas RENEWABLE ENERGY IN EUROPE: REMOVING BARRIERS, DEVELOPING TRADING, MEETING TARGETS, November 24-25, 2005, Hilton Waldorf, London, England WORLD COUNCIL FOR RENEWABLE ENERGY'S WCRE WORLD RENEWABLE ENERGY ASSEMBLY WREA -- WORLD RENEWABLE ENERGY ACCELERATION: NO MORE TIME...
- Research articles 2005-11-10
- Copenhagen Day 1: Goodbye, Optimism
- Today was the first day of the Copenhagen climate change conference, an international gathering of governments to find a solution to climate change. In the world of politics, Copenhagen (or COP15, for short) is one of the biggest events ever. That means more press coverage than anyone...
- Blog posts 2009-12-07
- Yale economist analyzes protocol to reduce global carbon emissions.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-13 November 2001-YALE UNIVERSITY: Yale economist analyzes protocol to reduce global carbon emissions C1994-2001 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:13112001 New Haven, Conn. -- In the November 16 issue of Science magazine, William D. Nordhaus, the Sterling Professor of Economics at...
- Research articles 2001-11-13
- Beethoven Forum 1
- In the decade since the demise of the misnamed Bonn Beethovenhaus Beethoven-Jahrbuch series (misnamed in that only ten volumes were published between 1953 and 1983), and since Alan Tyson's Beethoven Studies (three volumes: W. W. Norton, 1973; Oxford University Press, 1977; Cambridge University Press, 1982), collections of essays on Beethoven...
- Research articles 1994-03-01
- German hospital saves baby with pioneering surgery in womb
- BERLIN AFP — A German hospital is celebrating a world first after carrying out life-saving surgery that stimulated lung growth in a baby still in the womb. Doctors at Bonn University Clinic feared that baby Miriam would die when her mother's foetal membrane burst in the 20th week of...
- Research articles 2007-10-29
- Upcoming events
- Feb. 10-11 International Conference on Mushroom Biology & Biotechnology Solan. India * www.nrcmushroom.org Feb. 18-20 19th NAMC--Sheraton San Diego Hotel & Marina June 10-12 49th Mushroom Industry Conference The Pennsylvania State University * 814/865-8301 2008 May 21-24 17th Intern. Congress of...
- Research articles 2007-01-01
- Upcoming events
- Feb. 10-11 International Conference on Mushroom Biology & Biotechnology Solan. India * www.nrcmushroom.org Feb. 18-20 19th NAMC -- Sheraton San Diego Hotel & Marina June 10-12 49th Mushroom Industry Conference The Pennsylvania State University * 814/865-8301 2008 May 21-24 17th Intern. Congress...
- Research articles 2007-02-01
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