We study many-server queues with abandonment in which customers have general service and patience time distributions. The dynamics of the system are modeled using measurevalued processes, to keep track of the residual service and patience times of each customer. Deterministic fluid models are established to provide first-order approximation for this model. The fluid model solution, which is pro...

Based on panel data around 5,500 German household heads originating from four years, this paper analyzes whether the experience of financial losses due to Corona pandemic has affected three kinds personal traits and preferences: willingness take risks, patience, locus control. Our empirical results indicate that patience control remain unchanged by pandemic-related losses, whereas we find a sig...

By building a game model between the institutional investors and the management, an analysis has been conducted to uncover the influential factors that are crucial to the role switching of institutional investors when confronting tunneling behaviors of the management: supervision cost, shareholding ratio, invisible income, fines and patience. In cases of lower supervision cost, higher sharehold...

2003 I Acknowledgements I am very grateful to my supervisor Dr. Rudy Setiono for his insightful suggestions in both the content and presentation of this thesis. It was his encouragement, support and patience that saw me through and I am ever grateful to him. I am full of gratitude to my boss, Dr. Peng Jinrong, for his understanding and support on allowing me to take the part-time Master of Scie...