Keyword: finance & banking

Found 743 papers in total
An automated econometric decision support system: forecasts for foreign exchange trades
2006,
Making decisions challenges foreign exchange (FX) market brokers due to the volatility...
A quadratic interval logit model for forecasting bankruptcy
2005,
This paper proposes a quadratic interval logit model (or quadratic interval logistic...
Market risk and process uncertainty in production operations
2006,
By adopting a real options framework we develop a production control model that...
Using real options anaylysis to value reoptimization options in shifting bottleneck heuristic
2006,
The reoptimization procedure within the shifting bottleneck (SB) involves reevaluation...
Vulnerable options in supply chains: Effects of supplier competition
2006,
Concerned with the risk of supplier default, a firm may choose to diversify its orders...
Hedging quantity risks with standard power options in a competitive wholesale electricity market
2006,
This paper addresses quantity risk in the electricity market and explores several ways...
Stochastic programming models for replication of electricity forward contracts for industry
2006,
Forward contracts for electricity are valuable to consumers (suppliers) that wish to...
Concerns over the allocation methods employed in the US low-income home energy assistance program
2006,
The Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) is the largest federal energy...
Medical savings accounts: opportunities for cost savings?
2006,
Interest in medical savings accounts (MSAs) as a potential tool to reduce healthcare...
Investment analysis and budget allocation at Catholic Relief Services
2006,
Catholic Relief Services, a not-for-profit agency that funds development programs and...
European generic scoring models using survival analysis
2006,
Credit scoring discriminates between ‘good’ and ‘bad’ credit...
The multiple server location problem
2007,
In this paper, we introduce the Multiple Server location problem. A given number of...
Competitive pricing with dynamic asymmetric price effects
2005,
We model the temporal pricing strategies for two firms with asymmetric costs and...
Staying together or breaking apart: policy-makers' endogenous coalitions formation in the European Economic and Monetary Union
2006,
In this paper, we analyze the coordination of macroeconomic stabilization policies...
The impact of information technology on the financial performance of diversified firms
2006,
Diversification may increase economic benefits through more efficient utilization of...
Methods to determine reimbursement rates for diagnosis related groups (DRG): A comparison of nine European countries
2006,
Over the past 20 years, most European countries have introduced DRGs or similar...
Cost accounting and public reimbursement schemes in Spanish hospitals
2006,
The objective of this paper is to provide a description and analysis of the main...
Costs and prices for inpatient care in England: Mirror twins or distant cousins?
2006,
The National Health Service (NHS) in England is introducing a national cost-per-case...
Cost accounting methodologies in price setting of acute inpatient services in Hungary
2006,
On the basis of documentary analysis and interviews with decision makers, this paper...
Inpatient reimbursement system in Italy: How do tariffs relate to costs?
2006,
In 1995 the Italian National Health Service began to fund its hospitals on a per case...
Variable prospective financing in the Danish hospital sector and the development of a Danish case-mix system
2006,
This article aims to describe and assess the Danish case-mix system, the cost...
Cost accounting to determine prices: How well do prices reflect costs in the German DRG-system?
2006,
Germany has recently introduced a system of Diagnosis Related Groups (DRGs) to...
The definition of prices for inpatient care in Poland in the absence of cost data
2006,
The health reform of 1999 in Poland introduced market-like relations in the health...
Cost assessment and price setting of inpatient care in the Netherlands. The DBC case-mix system
2006,
In February 2005, a case-mix system based on ‘diagnosis treatment...
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