Mutual funds’ performance rankings are widely publicized in the media and have a strong impact on fund flows (see, e.g., Sirri and Tufano, 1998). In this paper, we study risk taking incentives of mutual fund managers who have ranking objectives (as in a tournament). First, in a two-period model, we analyze the game played by two risk-neutral fund managers with ranking objectives. We show that i...

This paper proposes a discussion of three scenarios related to French e-grocery developments, in shopping trip flows. One of our objectives will be to consider logistics solutions adopted by online

In the current industrial context, it is generally difficult for manufacturing companies to produce all the components of the products they propose. Thus, they either buy a large proportion of these components from suppliers or subcontract their manufacturing with other companies. This exchange of physical and informational flows between buyers and suppliers is then considered as a network. In ...

effectiveness of military is function of training system effectiveness. notice to training system and knowledge about effectiveness and efficiency is one of the important functions of top military leaders. goal of this study is achieving a performance appraisal model for measuring effectiveness and efficiency of military university training system. for achieving this goal, we design two main qu...

AbstractDeveloping self-regulated learners has been the life-long ambition of different stakeholders in education. This study was set out to find the relationships between self-regulated strategies as defined by time and resource management, cognitive and metacognitive strategies, achievement goals classified as mastery, performance-approach and performance-avoidance, and the listening ac...

While the performance evaluation of judges has become a ubiquitous aspect of modern judicial administration, evaluation mechanisms of are too often utilised uncritically, without reflection on why we evaluate judges, and how ‘measurement’ furthers these objectives. This article provides a conceptual analysis of the role and purpose of performance evaluation, conceiving it as a limited tool of j...

BACKGROUND Filter feature selection methods compute molecular signatures by selecting subsets of genes in the ranking of a valuation function. The motivations of the valuation functions choice are almost always clearly stated, but those for selecting the genes according to their ranking are hardly ever explicit. METHOD We addressed the computation of molecular signatures by searching the opti...