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Info 530: Erd & Dfd Diagrams, James Gross

James Gross

Drexel University, Info 530/780.

Household Financial Ratios: A Review Of Literature, Nathan Harness, Michael Finke, Swarn Chatterjee

Swarn Chatterjee

The literature on household financial ratios provides insight into the characteristics related to meeting common investment asset, debt, and liquidity guidelines. We know much about the contemporaneous relation between ratios and household characteristics, but the literature exploring the impact of meeting ratio thresholds on subsequent financial success is in its infancy. Ratios can be useful heuristics that efficiently provide information about financial status as well as a prescriptive guideline to motivate more efficient financial behavior. While the existing literature provides some insight into which households have adequate ratios, there are opportunities for additional empirical scrutiny and application of household resource …

Pondering Fdi In Crisis: Investment Could Drop Or It Just Might Rise, Karl P. Sauvant

Karl P. Sauvant

Karl P. Sauvant, "Pondering FDI in crisis: investment could drop or it just might rise", op. ed., Shanghai Daily, 28 November 2008, p. A. 6.

The Fdi Recession Has Begun (Also In Chinese), Karl P. Sauvant

Karl P. Sauvant

This first Perspective forecasts an FDI recession in the coming year.

A Comparative Analysis Of The Legal Obstacles To Institutional Investor Activism In Europe And In The Us (Pdf Format), Paolo Santella, Enrico Baffi, Carlo Drago, Dino Lattuca

Paolo Santella

No abstract provided.

A Comparative Analysis Of The Legal Obstacles To Institutional Investor Activism In Europe And In The Us (Pdf Format), Paolo Santella, Enrico Baffi, Carlo Drago, Dino Lattuca

Carlo Drago

No abstract provided.

Analyzing Unstructured Text Data: Using Latent Categorization To Identify Intellectual Communities In Information Systems, Kai R. Larsen, David E. Monarchi, Dirk S, Hovorka, Christopher N. Bailey

Dirk Hovorka

The Information Systems field is structured by the research topics emphasized by communities of journals. The Latent Categorization Method categorized and automatically named IS research topics in 14,510 abstracts from 65 Information Systems journals. These topics were clustered into seven intellectual communities based on publication patterns. The technique develops categories from the data itself, it is replicable, is relatively insensitive to the size of the text units, and it avoids many of the problems that frequently accompany human categorization. As such LCM provides a new approach to analyzing a wide array of textual data.

Investing In A Better Job, Michael Sack Elmaleh

Michael Sack Elmaleh

Investing time and money to attain "something" that allows a person to earn more in future wages is economically rational, if the present value of the additional future wages exceeds the present value of the investment cost in time and money to attain that "something". In our market economy, these attained "somethings" include college degrees, vocational and professional certifications, and equity ownership in small closely held businesses. Most small closely held businesses require the full time active management of the owner. Little or no free cash flow would be available to the investor if they chose to hire a non …

Business Regulation Simulation, Janice M. Brownlee

Janice M Brownlee

No abstract provided.

Hybrid Mail, Status, Possibilities And Scenarios, Jacob Johnsen

Jacob Johnsen, MSc

Overview of solutions and possibilities as well as past experiences with the use of hybrid mail.

Leading Firms As Knowledge Gatekeepers In A Networked Environment, Deogratias Harorimana Mr

Dr Deogratias Harorimana

This chapter introduces the role of the knowledge gatekeeper as a mechanism by which knowledge is created and transferred in a networked environment. Knowledge creation and transfer are essential for building a knowledge based economy. The chapter considers obstacles that inhibit this process and argues that leading firms create a shared socio-cultural context that enables the condivision of tacit meanings and codification of knowledge. Leading firms act as gatekeepers of knowledge through the creation of shared virtual platforms. There will be a leading firm that connects several networks of clients and suppliers may not interact directly with one another, but …

Eine Serviceorientierte Architektur (Soa) Für Die Integration Von Rfid-, Sensor- Und Lokalisierungsdaten Im Facility Management, Daniel Hanhart, Christine Legner, Hubert Oesterle

Hubert Oesterle

RFID-, Sensor- und Lokalisierungstechnologien werden die Abläufe im Facility Management künftig stark verändern. Angesichts der hohen Kosten des Vorort-Einsatzes eines Mitarbeiters und der verteilten Standorte von Immobilien bieten diese Technologien Immobilienbetreibern die Chance, ihre Kostenstrukturen durch hoch integrierte Abläufe zu optimieren und sich im Wettbewerb durch Zusatzleistungen zu differenzieren. Die Integration mobiler und ubiquitärer Technologien in bestehende Systemlandschaften erfordert jedoch die Implementierung zusätzlicher Infrastrukturkomponenten und Schnittstellen. In der Vergangenheit war dies mit dem Einsatz verschiedener, proprietärer Technologien verbunden und führte zu komplexen, schwer beherrschbaren Integrationslösungen. Ausgehend von Anwendungsszenarien in der Instandhaltung von Immobilien zeigt der vorliegende Beitrag, welchen Beitrag Serviceorientierte …

Emerging Markets' Fdi Strikes Sensitive Nerve, Karl P. Sauvant

Karl P. Sauvant

Karl P. Sauvant, "Emerging markets' FDI strikes sensitive nerve" op. ed., Shanghai Daily, October 23, 2008.

Book Review 17 Me, Myself, And Why? The Secrets To Navigating Change By Lisa A. Mininni, William C. Mcpeck

William C. McPeck

This is my personal review of Me, Myself, and Why? The Secrets to Navigating Change by Lisa A. Mininni which was published in 2007 by PM Publishing.

Fight Fraud With Strong Internal Controls, Robert L. Kardell, L. Rand Gambrell

Robert L Kardell

No abstract provided.

Effects Of Friendship In Transactions In An Emerging Market: Empirical Evidence From Brazil, Wesley Mendes-Da-Silva

Wesley Mendes-Da-Silva

This paper considers the inclusion of human behavioral aspects and implications of cognitive psychology and anthropology in decisions relating to the emerging field of behavioral finance. The formulated hypotheses were tested using 400 questionnaires, answered by students enrolled in MBA programs. The principal results suggest that individuals involved in transactions among friends or among strangers assume different behaviors—friends agree about the price attributed to an asset, while strangers show the propensity to bargain.

Report On Key Design Elements Of Auctions Under Australia's Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, Peter Cramton

Peter Cramton

No abstract provided.

Auctions For Injecting Bank Capital (Addendum To 'A Troubled Asset Reverse Auction'), Peter Cramton, Lawrence M. Ausubel

Peter Cramton

Public discussion has turned, in the past few days, toward using some of the $700 billion in rescue funds for the injection of government money into banks in return for ownership stakes. The purpose of this short note, an addendum to “A Troubled Asset Reverse Auction,” is to describe an auction mechanism suitable for injections of capital into banks. The auctions would price the equity purchases through a competitive process.

Channels 2.0 - Delivering And Deploying On-Demand Solutions, David C. Thomas

David Chandler Thomas, PhD

The software industry is going through another major shift in the underlying platform; this time, from the ‘desktop’ to the ‘webtop.’ The change is disrupting the business models of both the independent software vendor (ISV) and the channel partners who have traditionally sold or deployed software on their behalf. As new players emerge, and the market shifts, a fresh look is needed at how software should be priced, sold, configured, deployed, and supported.

A Comparative Analysis Of The Legal Obstacles To Institutional Investor Activism In Europe And In The Us (Pdf Format), Paolo Santella, Enrico Baffi, Carlo Drago, Dino Lattuca

Paolo Santella

No abstract provided.

The Network-Firm As A Single Real Entity: Beyond The Aggregate Of Distinct Legal Entities, By Virgile Chassagnon. Discussion, Carlo Drago

Carlo Drago

No abstract provided.

A Comparative Analysis Of The Legal Obstacles To Institutional Investor Activism In Europe And In The Us (Pdf Format), Paolo Santella, Enrico Baffi, Carlo Drago, Dino Lattuca

Carlo Drago

No abstract provided.

!!! بیمارستان, Sajjad Khaksari

SAJJAD KHAKSARI

داستان کوتاه «بیمارستان» ریشه در واقعیت های تلخ جامعه ما و پزشکان ما دارد

Two-Phase Simulation Optimisation Procedure With Applications To Multi-Echelon Cyclic Planning, Galina Merkuryeva, Liana Napalkova

Liana Napalkova

No abstract provided.

Auctioning Long-Term Gas Contracts In Colombia, Peter Cramton

Peter Cramton

This paper presents an approach to auctioning long-term gas contracts in Colombia. I propose an annual auction for long-term firm gas contracts. The auction would assign and price all firm gas contracts, with the exception of gas from the Guajira field, which is assigned administratively at a regulated price. The proposal is a partial market design in that it does not address the transportation of gas from producer to consumer.

The goal of the approach is to improve the transparency and efficiency of the gas market with a coordinated auction for long-term gas contracts. Currently, gas contracts are sold in …

A Review Of The L-Band Auction, Peter Cramton

Peter Cramton

In May 2008, Ofcom’s L-band auction concluded. This was Ofcom’s second combinatorial clock auction. The auction used an innovative format intended to encourage an efficient assignment of the 17 lots. Eight bidders competed for the lots. In sharp contrast to the first combinatorial clock auction, the 10-40 GHz auction, in which each of the ten bidders won spectrum, in the L-band auction there was a single winner—Qualcomm won all the lots. This note briefly reviews the auction.

A Troubled Asset Reverse Auction, Peter Cramton, Lawrence M. Ausubel

Peter Cramton

The US Treasury has proposed purchasing $700 billion of troubled assets to restore liquidity and solve the current financial crisis, using market mechanisms such as reverse auctions where appropriate. This paper presents a high-level design for a troubled asset reverse auction and discusses the auction design issues. We assume that the key objectives of the auction are to: 1) provide a quick and effective means to purchase troubled assets and increase liquidity; 2) protect the taxpayer by yielding a price for assets related to their value; and 3) offer a transparent rules-based process that minimizes discretion and favoritism. We propose …

The Quadratic Core-Selecting Payment Rule For Combinatorial Auctions, Peter Cramton, Robert Day

Peter Cramton

We report on the use of a quadratic programming technique in recent and upcoming spectrum auctions in Europe, and proposed for use in the FAA’s landing-slot auctions in the United States. Specifically, we compute a unique point “in the core” that minimizes the sum of squared deviations from the Vickrey-Clarke-Groves payments. Analyzing the Karush-Kuhn-Tucker conditions, we demonstrate that the resulting payments can be decomposed into a series of economically meaningful and equitable penalties, adding to the perceived “fairness” of this payment rule. Further, we discuss the many benefits of this combinatorial auction paradigm.

A Review Of The 10-40 Ghz Auction, Peter Cramton

Peter Cramton

In February 2008, Ofcom’s 10-40 GHz auction concluded. This was Ofcom’s first combinatorial clock auction. The auction used an innovative format intended to encourage an efficient assignment of the 27 lots. Each of the ten bidders won one or more lots. All 27 lots were assigned. This note briefly reviews the auction.

Information Management Principles, Lance Deveson

Lance Deveson

The author sets out 10 essential principles for achieving excellence in information management at the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER).