viticulture and wine making as an economic development tool. It’s a push and shove situation for wine. The surprising state of wine in India today reflects this condition. On one hand wine (especially imported wine) is highly taxed and the national market fragmented by uncoordinated state regulator regimes. At the same time, pro-development government policies seem to have led to an over-expansion of supply by
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Asset Value and Volatility Estimation for Corporate Credit Rating 1009611462 LUFEI Xiaoxin 1009611301 HE Yao Abstract The market-based credit models make use of market information such as equity values to estimate a firm’s credit risk. The Merton model and the Black-Cox model are two popular models that link asset value with equity value, based on the option pricing theories. Under these models, the distance to default can be derived and thus the default probability can be mapped to as long
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1 PROBABILISTIC APPROACHES: SCENARIO ANALYSIS, DECISION TREES AND SIMULATIONS In the last chapter, we examined ways in which we can adjust the value of a risky asset for its risk. Notwithstanding their popularity, all of the approaches share a common theme. The riskiness of an asset is encapsulated in one number – a higher discount rate, lower cash flows or a discount to the value – and the computation almost always requires us to make assumptions (often unrealistic) about the nature of risk
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PENTECOSTAL LIFE UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF COMMERCE To Mr. L.C.T Nkhwangwa From HAPPY CHIRWA Course Name HUMAN RESOURC MANAGEMENT Course Code Level of Study YEAR3 Mode of Attendance EVENING Assignment # 2 Submission Date 30/09/2014 Due Date 29/09/2014 Student Signature Question Examine five criteria for effective selection. CRITERIA OF SELECTION Human recruiting is another important aspect of the human resource management in the strategic fit aspects especially. The HRM function
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Agent-based social simulation: dealing with complexity Nigel Gilbert Centre for Research on Social Simulation University of Surrey Guildford UK n.gilbert@soc.surrey.ac.uk 18 December 2004 While the idea of computer simulation has had enormous influence on most areas of science, and even on the public imagination through its use in computer games such as SimCity, it took until the 1990s for it to have a significant impact in the social sciences. The breakthrough came when it was realised
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REPORT ON RESOURCING TALENT At the beginning of the month I was asked to produce a report identify and assessing four factors that affect an organisation’s approach to attracting talent, recruitment and selection. I was also asked to identify and explain three organisational benefits of attracting and retaining a diverse workforce. As well as describing three methods of recruitment and three methods of selection. 1. Factors that affect an organisations approach to attracting talent There are
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Journal of Emerging Trends in Economics and Management Sciences (JETEMS) 2 (2): 131-141 © Scholarlink Research Institute Journals, 2011 (ISSN: 2141-7024) jetems.scholarlinkresearch.org Journal of Emerging Trends in Economics and Management Sciences (JETEMS) 2(2):131-141(ISSN:2141-7024) Information Distortion in Supply Chain: A Simulation Approach to Quantifying the Bullwhip Effect 1 1 Oyatoye, E.O and 2Fabson, T.V.O Department of Business Administration University of Lagos, Akoka-Yaba,
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Kudler Fine Foods December 9, 2012 MKT 421 Normand Hays Kudler Fine Foods is a local upscale specialty food store that is located in the San Diego metropolitan area. They currently have three locations. The three locations are La Jolla, Del Mar and Encinitas. Each store has approximately 8,000 square feet of space made for fashionable shopping pleasure. They have the absolute best domestic and imported fare for their customers. The customers have the pleasure of browsing
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Introduction Questions of our future have often been raised about our ability to share this world with what is known as “Artificial Intelligence.” Will they really make our lives easier or will they put the human race completely out of work? Will they ever become smart enough to learn and think for themselves or is it possible that they’ll become “too smart” and one day and take over the world as we know it? Many pieces of literature have been written, and many movies have been released, prophesying
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exercise: (i) (ii) (iii) (iv) (v) (vi) (vii) What a “variable” is. What a mean (expected value) is and how to compute it; What the notion of independence between two events means and how to test for it; What a correlation between two variables is and how to measure it; What a market share is and how to interpret it; What a penetration is and how to interpret it; What the duplication between two brands is and how to interpret it. Analysis as a scientific process Analyzing data
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