Benchmarking International Property in Australian Listed Property Trust Portfolios

Expert System Portfolios of Australian and Uk Securitised Property Investments

This paper examines whether a rule-based expert system is capable of outperforming the general property market, as well as randomly constructed portfolios from the market. While neural network expert systems have been used in property research, there appears little in the literature on the application of rule-based expert systems. Secondly, the paper considers whether there are benefits to inte...

Transitivity in Trust. A Discussed Property

Transitivity in trust is very often considered as a quite simple property, trivially inferable from the classical transitivity defined in mathematics, logic, or grammar. In fact the complexity of the trust notion suggests evaluating the relationships with the transitivity in a more adequate way. In this paper, starting from a socio-cognitive model of trust, we analyze the different aspects and ...

International Protection of Intellectual Property

We study the incentives that governments have to protect intellectual property in a trading world economy. We consider a world economy with ongoing innovation in two countries that differ in market size and in their capacity for innovation. After describing the determination of national patent policies in a noncooperative regime of patent protection, we ask, “Why is intellectual property better...

International Property-liability Insurance Consumption

During the 1980s and early 1990s, the world insurance market grew substantially. World insurance premiums in 1993 accounted for about 8 percent of world gross domestic product (GDP), compared to 4 percent in 1984. This article explains a substantial proportion of the variation in propertyliability insurance consumption across countries belonging to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and ...

Governmental resistance in international intellectual property rights