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		<title><![CDATA[Modeling Of Contagion Effects And Their Influence To The Pricing]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=276334]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2005 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[RFID Technology And Applications In The Retail Supply Chain]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=276745]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jun 2005 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Impact Of Illiquidity On The Asset Management Of Insurance Companies]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=313961]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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,...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 May 2005 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Modernizing Retailing Worldwide At The Point Of Sale]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=276460]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Dec 2004 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[An Experimental Analysis of Ending Rules in Internet Auctions]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=162400]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Oct 2004 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Debt Non-Neutrality, Policy Interactions, and Macroeconomic Stability]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=132764]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Sep 2004 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Adoption And Diffusion Of Digital Cable As Complementary Infrastructure]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=287422]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Aug 2004 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Decision Making Challenges in 'Co-Opetitive Learning and Knowledge Exchange Networks']]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=272359]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jun 2004 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[On the Relevance of Open Market Operations]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=133360]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2003 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Capital Gains Taxes, Venture Capitalists, And Entrepreneurship]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=282514]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Feb 2003 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Risk and Return in Industrial Insurance]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=127266]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Nov 2001 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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