Because of the lack of markets for many environmental services, economists have turned to valuation surveys to estimate the value of these services. However, lack of market experience may cause respondents in valuation surveys to be more prone to interview effects than they would be with other opinion surveys. Without reference to market price or experience, respondents are less likely to have ...

Market research or employee surveys often involve: 1) a population of interest and 2) a need for measuring the number (percent) of people with a certain characteristic. Some of these population characteristics might be: percent of satisfied customers, percent of customers who showed interest toward a future product/service, or the number of people who might be users of a particular product/tech...

This paper surveys the literature on the impacts of the Basel Capital Accords on banking market profitability, competitiveness, structure and risk-taking. Special emphasis is applied to the evolution of mortgage markets throughout the world over almost two decades of international bank regulatory policies. This paper has received generous financial support from the Canada Housing and Mortgage C...

Science-Metrix specializes in the measurement and evaluation of science, technology and innovation. Our data collection and assessment methods include bibliometrics, scientometrics, technometrics, surveys and interviews, environmental scans, monitoring and intelligence gathering. We perform program and policy evaluations, benchmarking and sector analyses, market studies and strategic planning.

This paper investigates how incentives of network operators to deviate from neutrality may create social costs or benefits in different market structures. The deviation from network neutrality is a general form of discrimination based on charging different prices for non-affiliated content and application providers. In this paper, deviation from network neutrality is formulated as a form of ver...

The market enthusiasm generated around investment in CRM technology is in stark contrast to the naysaying by many academic and business commentators. This raises an important research question concerning the extent to which companies should continue to invest in building a CRM capability. Drawing on field interviews and a survey of senior executives, the results reveal that a superior CRM capab...

We examine using the Stochastic Grid Bundling Method (SGBM) to price a Bermudan swaption driven by a one-factor LIBOR Market Model (LMM). Using a wellknown approximation formula from the finance literature, we implement SGBM with one basis function and show that it is around six times faster than the equivalent Longstaff–Schwartz method. The two methods agree in price to one basis point, and th...

The paper presents recent developments in Morfeusz – a morphological analyser for Polish. The program, being already a fundamental resource for processing Polish, has been reimplemented with some important changes in the tagset, some new options, added information on proper names, and ability to perform simple prefix derivation. The present version of Morfeusz (including its dictionaries) is ma...

This is a segment of the Literature Review chapter of a working paper titled, “Introducing Sugar Cane Juice in the Foreign MarketA Thorough Market Potential”. The paper entails a detailed analysis of the market segment strategy for the betterment of unders tanding and ensuring essentials in considering the right customer class to push the natural product to. The report is still in field level a...