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- Risk and Return in Industrial Insurance
- The following paper discusses the challenge between risk and return in the context of the industrial insurance market. The industrial insurance market is highly competitive. Companies have to cope with low premium levels and high losses resulting in high underwriting deficits. Decreasing investment income reduces the overall profitability of the...
- White papers 2001-11-08
- Adoption And Diffusion Of Digital Cable As Complementary Infrastructure
- In this paper, we analyze the adoption and diffusion of digital cable for content and information services with a focus on the United States. The cable industry, traditionally a major segment of the video content services industry, is confronted with infrastructure alternatives. Satellite services gain increasing market and profit share...
- White papers 2004-08-01
- Capital Gains Taxes, Venture Capitalists, And Entrepreneurship
- In many countries including the U.S., capital gains earned by owners of start up firms are taxed at lower rates than other types of income. This paper analyses the implications of this tax policy for economic efficiency. We consider a model where the success of an entrepreneurial project depends on...
- White papers 2003-02-01
- RFID Technology And Applications In The Retail Supply Chain
- RFID Radio Frequency IDentification recently has gained enormous attention in various industry sectors, the media, and in academic research. This paper focuses in early RFID applications in the retail supply chain. It takes a quick look at the available literature and then explains the technological issues including the need for...
- White papers 2005-06-06
- Modernizing Retailing Worldwide At The Point Of Sale
- The premier real-world roll-out of new information technologies excites an industry. The METRO Group's Future Store FS by a group of companies organized as the Future Store Initiative FSI is such a roll-out. It demonstrates how to significantly change today's worldwide shopping, retailing, and value chain logistics. FS is based...
- White papers 2004-12-01
- Modeling Of Contagion Effects And Their Influence To The Pricing
- KMV model adopts the main idea of Merton's framework. It assumes that a firm defaults when the value of its assets is lower than that of its liabilities when its debt matures. The asset value processes are driven by geometric Brownian motions. So the asset value processes are dependent to...
- White papers 2005-11-28
- Decision Making Challenges in 'Co-Opetitive Learning and Knowledge Exchange Networks'
- This primarily conceptual paper introduces 'Co-opetitive Learning and Knowledge Exchange Networks' CoLKENs as a specific context for decision making. CoLKENs play a pivotal role within the global, increasingly knowledge based society and shape knowledge sharing processes among their members and organizations. The inherent balancing act between cooperation and competition requires...
- White papers 2004-06-07
- An Experimental Analysis of Ending Rules in Internet Auctions
- A great deal of late bidding has been observed on internet auctions such as eBay, which employ a second price auction with a fixed deadline. Much less late bidding has been observed on internet auctions such as those run by Amazon, which employ similar auction rules, but use an ending...
- White papers 2004-10-08
- On the Relevance of Open Market Operations
- This paper reexamines the role of open market operations for short-run effects of monetary policy in a New Keynesian framework. The central bank supplies money in exchange for securities that are discounted with the short-run nominal interest rate, while money demand is induced by a liquidity constraint. The paper allows...
- White papers 2003-12-15
- Debt Non-Neutrality, Policy Interactions, and Macroeconomic Stability
- The paper studies the consequences of non-neutrality of government debt with respect to aggregate demand for short-run macroeconomic stability and for fiscal-monetary policy interactions in an environment where prices are sticky. Equilibrium stability then requires real public debt to be stationary, which steers future expectations about prices and output, and...
- White papers 2004-09-17
- The Impact Of Illiquidity On The Asset Management Of Insurance Companies
- This paper investigates the impact of illiquidity on insurance company asset allocation and selling strategy. The need for insurers to settle claims as they arise by making funds available immediately make insurers especially susceptible to the effects of transaction illiquidity. Using a simplified model of a risk neutral insurance company,...
- White papers 2005-05-01
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- SIMSCI appoints new vice president of sales and marketing
- BREA, Calif.--BUSINESS WIRE--Oct. 19, 1995--Simulation Sciences Inc. SIMSCIsm, developer of the open, standards-based PROVISIONtm engineering environment, has appointed Dirk Pfeiffer as vice president of sales and marketing.Educated in Germany, with an MBA from the University of Cologne, Pfeiffer comes to SIMSCI from SAP, where he was the sales and marketing...
- Research articles 1995-10-19
- Study says men's sweat is Love Potion No. 9 Forget the cologne and
- BERKELEY -- Men, it turns out your own sweat may be just the Valentine's Day gift you need to get your gal in the mood for love. A new study by scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, found sniffing a compound found in male sweat can...
- Research articles 2007-02-10
- OCP-IP Announces Six New Members
- PORTLAND, Ore. -- Open Core Protocol International Partnership (OCP-IP) today announced six new members, including: Cologne Chip, European Space Agency ESA, MITRE Corporation, Jasper Design Automation, OnDemand Microelectronics, and the University of Bologna. The breadth of technologies represented in the new members illustrates the industry-wide acceptance and adoption of the...
- Research articles 2006-05-09
- Who's News
- Auto Importers Peter Leu has joined Chamco Auto in Parsippany as vice president, powertrain. He brings more than 30 years of engineering experience to his new position, having formerly served in leadership roles at Daimler-Benz, Festo AG and Behr Thermot-Tronik. Leu holds many patents in fuel consumption reduction and emissions...
- Research articles 2007-01-22
- The European Eagle
- Christian Mohr never played high school football above the junior-varsity level, and he admits to spending most of his time that year trying to learn the rules. College? Sorry, football was not one of the sports offered at the University of Sports in Cologne, Germany, when Mohr attended that institution...
- Research articles 2006-11-04
- Can European Banks survive a unified currency in a nationally segmented capital market?
- The Jerome Levy Economics Institute of Bard College University of Bologna, UNCTAD The EU seems finally to have recognized that reaping the full benefits of the single currency will require a fully integrated European capital market and that this will require harmonization of...
- Research articles 1999-12-22
- Heal, Bridget. The Cult of the Virgin Mary in Early Modern Germany: Protestant and Catholic Piety, 1500-1648
- Heal, Bridget. The Cult of the Virgin Mary in Early Modern Germany: Protestant and Catholic Piety, 1500-1648. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. 338 pp. $99.00 hardcover. Bridget Heal's work is a thorough case study of Reformation and Counter Reformation Marian piety in three representative cities: Nuremberg, Augsburg, and Cologne....
- Research articles 2009-01-01
- Cor, you don't half smell; Perfumes and the immune system.(Science and Technology)
- DID you dab on a little cologne this morning? Using scent to make yourself more attractive is nothing new. People have been dousing themselves with fragrances since at least the time of the ancient Egyptians. But, perhaps surprisingly, nobody really knows why. The...
- Research articles 2001-01-27
- Calendar
- JANUARY 20-23 IDFA's Dairy Forum, La Quinta Resort and Club, La Quinta, Calif., Phone: 202/737-4332 Website: www.idfa.org 26-27 Ice Cream 101, Penn State University, University Park, Penn., Program Instructor: Dr. Robert Roberts, rfr3@psu.edu, Registration site: http://conferences.cas.psu.edu/ 27-29 ISM Confections, Cologne Exhibition Centre; Cologne, Germany www.ism-cologne.com FEBRUARY...
- Research articles 2008-01-01
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