Islamic bond issuance: what sovereign debt managers need to know

Shiftwork: what health care managers need to know.

Shiftwork is one of health care worker's oldest problems and is known to have important implications on health. Health risks are compounded with age and the amount of cumulated shiftwork. No shift system is clearly advantaged, yet the worker's ability to choose the shift system seems to maximize adaptation to shiftwork. When designing a work schedule, it is important to take into consideration ...

What Neurosurgeons Need to Know

“The results of the three parts of the Spine Patient Outcomes Research Trial (SPORT) were published within the 18 months.” In November 2006, the reports of the randomized, controlled trial (RCT) and observational cohort study of herniated lumbar disc (HLD) were published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.8,9 In May 2007, the New England Journal of Medicine published the results...

What do we know? What do we need to know?

What We Know and What We Need to Know

Drawing on recent literature, the paper argues that institutions and political economy factors hold the key to understanding why some countries have succeeded in developing their financial systems while others have not. The paper also reviews new evidence which suggests that institutional quality may influence the effectiveness of financial development in delivering economic growth. These new f...

EUROPEAN BOND ETFs - TRACKING ERRORS AND SOVEREIGN DEBT CRISIS

We examine tracking errors and performance of 31 European bond exchange traded funds (ETFs) during 2007-2010. On average, ETFs outperform their respective benchmarks. Our findings, contradicts recent results from international equity markets that suggest ETFs’ underperformance. The average overperformance during the sample period varies from 10 basis points to 27 basis points. Notable the over-...