University of Florence Faculty of Economy Master’s Degree in Bank, Insurance and Financial Markets Thesis in Applied Statistics for Banks and Insurances Credit Risk Models: Single Firm Default and Contagion Default Analysis Supervisor: P rof essor Fabrizio Cipollini Student: Marco Gambacciani Academic Year 2009/2010 Contents Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Structural Models 1.1 Terminal Default . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.2 First Passage Models
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MANAGERIAL LEADERSHIP AND CULTURAL DIFFERENCES OF EASTERN EUROPEAN ECONOMIES Darryl J, Mitry and Thomas Bradley National University School of Business and Technology http://marketing.byu.edu/htmlpages/ccrs/proceedings99/mitrybradley.htm Key Factors: ~ Global Business, Colliding cultures & Changing Economies ~With the accession of the 21st Century, the developing globalization of business and other expanding pluralistic organizations we need to reconsider the topic of managerial
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Vol. 27, No. 5, September–October 2008, pp. 811–828 issn 0732-2399 eissn 1526-548X 08 2705 0811 informs ® doi 10.1287/mksc.1080.0398 © 2008 INFORMS Supermarket Pricing Strategies Department of Economics, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27708, paul.ellickson@duke.edu William E. Simon School of Business Administration, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14627, misra@simon.rochester.edu Paul B. Ellickson Sanjog Misra M ost supermarket firms choose to position themselves
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THE ROLE OF LANGUAGE CODESWITCHING IN INCREASING ADVERTISING EFFECTIVENESS AMONG MEXICAN-AMERICAN YOUTH by MELISSA MAIER BISHOP Presented to the Faculty of the Graduate School of The University of Texas at Arlington in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON December 2006 Copyright © by Melissa Maier Bishop 2006 All Rights Reserved ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS A wise professor told me before starting my PhD
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HUMAN RESOURCE ACCOUNTING UNIT – I The Non accounting of human resources and the change occurring therein, of an organization may provide a poor picture of the profits and profitability of the organization. Likert Objectives of the Study: This unit aims to provide a basis for the conceptual framework of Human Resource Accounting. An attempt is made to highlight the following aspects. Development of the Concept of HRA An Historical Score Card Meaning and Definition of HRA Importance
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Learning OpenCV Gary Bradski and Adrian Kaehler Beijing · Cambridge · Farnham · Köln · Sebastopol · Taipei · Tokyo Learning OpenCV by Gary Bradski and Adrian Kaehler Copyright © 2008 Gary Bradski and Adrian Kaehler. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. Published by O’Reilly Media, Inc., 1005 Gravenstein Highway North, Sebastopol, CA 95472. O’Reilly books may be purchased for educational, business, or sales promotional use. Online editions are also available
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CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION Background to the Study The subject of taxation has received considerable intellectual and theoretical attention in the literature. Taxation is one of the most volatile subjects in governance both in the developing and developed nations. Tax refers to a “compulsory levy by a public authority for which nothing is received directly in return” (James and Nobes, 1992). According to Nightingale (2001)
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Data Mining Practical Machine Learning Tools and Techniques The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems Series Editor: Jim Gray, Microsoft Research Data Mining: Practical Machine Learning Tools and Techniques, Second Edition Ian H. Witten and Eibe Frank Fuzzy Modeling and Genetic Algorithms for Data Mining and Exploration Earl Cox Data Modeling Essentials, Third Edition Graeme C. Simsion and Graham C. Witt Location-Based Services Jochen Schiller and Agnès Voisard Database
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The Relevance of the Value Relevance Literature For Financial Accounting Standard Setting: Another View Mary E. Barth Graduate School of Business Stanford University William H. Beaver Graduate School of Business Stanford University Wayne R. Landsman Kenan-Flagler Business School University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill January 2001 We thank Dan Collins, Brian Rountree, participants at the 2000 Journal of Accounting & Economics conference, and the editors, S. P. Kothari, Tom Lys,
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