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An Application Of The Factor Analytic Approach To The Construction Of An Overall Business Activity Index., Jay Quigley Butler
An Application Of The Factor Analytic Approach To The Construction Of An Overall Business Activity Index., Jay Quigley Butler
Anderson School of Management Theses & Dissertations
Business economists attempting to determine and to describe the changes in the business activity of metropolitan areas and other geographic sections are seriously limited in their work by the absence of a satisfactory Overall Business Activity Index (OBAI). Although there are several methods for constructing such a composite index, this thesis examines the application of factor analysis to the construction of an OBAI. The difficulty of applying this statistical technique has been in developing a set of weights for combining the extracted factors into an OBAI. Among the objectives of such an overall index are that it should preserve the …
Bank Asset Management: A Study Of A Linear Program Model Developed By D. Chambers And A. Charnes, Christopher Crosby Inman
Bank Asset Management: A Study Of A Linear Program Model Developed By D. Chambers And A. Charnes, Christopher Crosby Inman
Anderson School of Management Theses & Dissertations
STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM
Bank management is constantly faced with the task of maximizing asset profitability within the constraints of liquidity and safety. In an attempt to aid management in the solution of this problem, several asset management models and theories have been developed. One such model was developed by D. Chambers and A. Charnes and was presented in the July, 1961 issue of Management Science. This model utilizes a linear programming approach to determine an optimal asset portfolio which maximizes profits while satisfying a bank's liquidity and safety needs. The purpose of this thesis is to critique this model. …