OLEDs Expected to Gain Ground as LCD Investment Slows

How to Gain Respect as an Educator

Respect is often mentioned spontaneously when people talk about relationships in society, and intuitively everyone seems to know its meaning. In any kind of relationship, respect is often said to contribute to successful interactions. Scientists, politicians, writers and journalists commonly use the term ‘respect’ in their arguments with remarkable conviction...

Is gainsharing starting to gain ground?

Investment in Hightech Industries An example from the LCD industry

In this paper we study investments of firms in hightech industries. Typical examples are producers of consumer electronic products such as dvd players, LCD television sets, digital photo cameras, and mobile phones. There are two important characteristics in these markets. The first is (sharply) decreasing sales prices and the second is decreasing production costs. The introduction of new techno...

On Optimal Investment in the Long Run: Rank Dependent Expected Utility as a “Bridge” between the Maximum-Expected-Log and Maximum- Expected-Utility Criteria

This paper concerns the well known paradox of inconsistency of the maximum-expected-utility (MEU) and the maximum-expected-log (MEL) criteria in investment dynamic models. The goal of the paper is to consider this phenomenon at the level of premises, and to suggest a generalized criterion, namely the rank dependent expected utility (RDEU) approach which allows to “bridge the gap” between the ME...

A Novel Model in Optimal Decision Making to Investment in the Industry with Regard to the Role of Unique Value-Added to Optimizing the Total Expected Cost Index

The main aim of this study, introduce a model todetermine the optimal values of the index value to minimize thetotal expected cost index and also the best decision making inselecting the industry and the region for investment by investors.For this purpose, the technique of linear programming to determinethe optimal values of the index value is used. Finally, FuzzyTOPSIS technique to prioritize ...