Business Executive Perspectives on Quantitative Easing: An Agent-Based Exploration

Structural and Quantitative Perspectives on Business Process Modelling and Analysis

In this paper we introduce and motivate the use of structural and quantitative perspectives on business process modelling and analysis. Structural perspectives are associated with certain model structuring styles. Quantitative perspectives are associated with certain process measures, in our case time-based measures. Furthermore, we relate these structural and quantitative perspectives. The int...

Quantitative Easing and Financial Stability∗

The massive expansion of central-bank balance sheets in response to recent crises raises important questions about the effects of such “quantitative easing” policies, both their effects on financial conditions and on aggregate demand (the intended effects of the policies), and their possible collateral effects on financial stability. The present paper compares three alternative dimensions of ce...

An Agent-based Bridge between Business Process and Business Rules

Industry has been and still is, more than ever, interested in executing business functions that span multiple applications. This demands high-levels of interoperability and a more flexible and adaptive business process management. In the attempt to delineate an effective solution, some researchers have envisaged as strategic the integration of the service-oriented technology with business proce...

Perspectives on Business Intelligence

In the 1980s, traditional Business Intelligence (BI) systems focused on the delivery of reports that describe the state of business activities in the past, such as for questions like “How did our sales perform during the last quarter?” A decade later, there was a shift to more interactive content that presented how the business was performing at the present time, answering questions like “How a...

The Macroeconomic Effects of Quantitative Easing