The dominant role of banks, the system of co-determination and company-centered management are traditionally seen as the critical elements of the German system of corporate governance. Important changes have taken place in recent years in this system. Of particular importance have been developments in the relationship between German corporations and the financial system. Particularly in the lat...

Food processing industries experience growing logistical demands, growing variety in products and intense competition. As a reaction companies try to produce more on order. Often managers "nd it di$cult to decide which products to make to order and which products to stock. This paper develops a frame that is an aid for managers in balancing the factors and characteristics of market and producti...

There is increasing demand for complex event processing of ever-expanding volumes of data in an ever-growing number of application domains. Traditional complex event processing technologies, based upon stream database management systems or publish/subscribe systems, are adept at handling many of these technologies. A growing number of hybrid complex event detection scenarios require features of...

We show that the relationship between aggregate investment and Tobin’s q has become remarkably tight in recent years, contrasting with earlier times. We attribute this change to the growing empirical dispersion in Tobin’s q, which we document in both in the cross-section and the time-series. To study the source of this dispersion, we augment a standard investment model with learning. Informatio...

There is increasing demand for complex event processing of ever-expanding volumes of data in an ever-growing number of application domains. Traditional complex event processing technologies, based upon either stream database management systems or publish/subscribe systems, are adept at handling many of these applications. However, a growing number of hybrid complex event detection scenarios req...

despite the growing use of evolutionary multi-objective optimization algorithms in different categories of science, these algorithms as a powerful tool in portfolio optimization and specially solving multi-objective portfolio optimization problem is still in its early stages. in this paper, moeas have been used for solving multi-objective portfolio optimization problem in tehran stock market. f...

Executive Summary This report is organized around five interlocking questions regarding ecosystem based approaches to managing aquatic living resources, based on the understanding that management in natural resource contexts is the control of human intervention in ecosystems, and with the general focus of fished stocks that may be both predators and prey for other species in the system. Single-...

This paper examines price discovery for four Australian stocks cross-listed in New Zealand and five New Zealand stocks cross-listed in Australia for the period January 2002 to December 2005. Estimating Hasbrouck (1995) information shares over time reveals that the importance of the Australian market is growing. However, when incorporating the AUD/NZD cross-rate into the model, we find that this...