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- Bank Mergers, Competition and Liquidity
- This white paper provides a model of the impact of bank mergers on loan competition, individual reserve management and aggregate liquidity risk. Banks compete in rates of differentiated loans, hold reserves against liquidity shocks and refinance in the interbank money market if shocks exceed individual reserves. Mergers can affect market...
- White papers 2002-04-23
- Piracy of Digital Products: A Critical Review of the Economics Literature
- This paper document provides a critical overview of the literature that addresses the economic consequences of end-user copying. It concludes that some models with network effects are well-suited for the analysis of software copying while other models incorporating the feature that copies provide information about the originals may be useful...
- White papers 2003-09-01
- Online Broker Investors: Demographic Information, Investment Strategy, Portfolio Positions, and Trading Activity
- The main goal of this paper is to present various descriptive statistics on demographic information, investment strategy, portfolio positions, and trading activity. The paper summarizes that online broker investors trade frequently. The median stock portfolio turnover is about 30 % per month. The average number of stocks in portfolios increases...
- White papers 2003-10-01
- Institutional Determinants of International Equity Portfolios - A Country-Level Analysis
- Despite large potential gains, international equity investment is less diversified across countries than predicted by the international version of the traditional capital asset pricing model. This paper provides empirical evidence on the impact of capital market frictions on international equity portfolios using data on bilateral equity holdings. The findings states...
- White papers 2004-11-01
- The Effect of Internet Piracy on CD Sales- Cross-Section Evidence
- This paper analyzes the role of music downloading on the current downturn in CD sales. It provides 2000-2001 cross-country evidence in support of the claim of losses due to internet piracy made by the music industry. For the U.S. it also assesses the potential loss from internet piracy using detailed...
- White papers 2003-11-01
- The Impact Of Human Asset Specificity On The Sourcing Of Application Services
- The question concerning the circumstances under which it is advantageous for a company to outsource certain information systems functions has been a controversial issue for the last decade. While opponents emphasize the risks of outsourcing based on the loss of strategic potentials and increased transaction costs, proponents emphasize the strategic...
- White papers 2005-04-27
- A New International Division Of Labor In Europe: Outsourcing And Offshoring To Eastern Europe
- Europe is reorganizing its international value chain. The author document these changes in Europe's international organization of production with new survey data of Austrian and German firms investing in Eastern Europe. He shows estimates of the share of intrafirm trade between Austria or Germany on the one hand and Eastern...
- White papers 2005-09-01
- Asymmetric Procurement Mechanisms
- The authors have modeled a procuring firm's problem of repeated procurement for a similar good. The procurer faces two different kinds of suppliers: one incumbent and several entrants. Only the incumbent can make a relationship-specific investment, increasing the benefits of the repeated cooperation for the procurer. The procurer faces the...
- White papers 2005-12-09
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- Elekta: IMPAC's MOSAIQ™ Oncology PACS Helps the Department of Radiation Oncology at Mannheim Medical Center, University of Heidelberg, to Achieve Its Goal of Becoming Filmless and Paperless
- The Department of Radiation Oncology at Mannheim Medical Center Implements IMPAC's New Oncology-Specific PACS to Improve Technology and Workflow Management MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- IMPAC Medical Systems, Inc. IMPAC, an Elekta company (STO:EKTAB) and leading provider of information technology IT solutions for oncology care, announces the clinical implementation of...
- Research articles 2007-03-20
- Cornell Theory Center's Velocity Cluster Makes the Top 500 List; High-Performance Cluster Running MPI/Pro and Cluster Controller Software
- Business Editors & Technology Writers STARKVILLE, Miss.--BUSINESS WIRE--June 16, 2000 Cornell Theory Center (www.tc.cornell.edu) announced today that its AC3 Velocity Cluster has been named to the Top 500 Supercomputing Sites list (www.top500.org). The Top 500 Supercomputing Sites list, maintained by University of Mannheim (www.uni-mannheim.de) and University of Tennessee...
- Research articles 2000-06-16
- Fastest computer used for planet-saving science
- KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - At least for the moment, the world's fastest supercomputer is devoted to solving scientific questions that may save the planet — climate change, renewable energy, new medicines — rather than advances in nuclear weapons that might blow it up. The Oak Ridge National Laboratory's high-performance Jaguar XT5...
- News items 2009-11-17
- Cray Jaguar Named Fastest Supercomputer
- An upgrade from quad-core to six-core Opteron processors from Advanced Micro Devices boosted Jaguar's performance to 1.75 petaflop per second, easily surpassing Roadrunner's 1.04 petaflop/s, according to the biannual Top500 list released Monday at the SC09 Conference in Portland, Ore. A petaflop/s refers to 1 quadrillion calculations per second. ...
- News items 2009-11-16
- AMD Signs on as Cornerstone Sponsor of OpenFPGA, Establishes University of Mannheim Center of Excellence to Advance HyperTransport™ Research
- Latest Collaborations Expand Industry Support for Torrenza
- Research articles 2006-11-14
- Bernd Bohr.(News)(Brief Article)
- Titles: Member of Robert Bosch GmbH's board of management since July 1, 1999; chairman of Bosch's automotive technology business sector since July 1, 2003 Born: Sept. 7, 1956, in Mannheim, Germany Education: Doctorate in engineering from University of Aachen, Germany ...
- Research articles 2003-07-07
- Dr. Hans M. Mark
- DR. HANS M. MARK Hans M. Mark was the 13th secretary of the Air Force. He born in Mannheim, Germany in 1929. He came to the United States in 1940, and became a U.S. citizen in 1945. He attended primary and secondary schools in New York City, earned...
- Research articles 2004-01-01
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