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White Papers
Migrating a Web Site to Drupal
Aug 2011
Drupal's advantages for running enterprise web sites are well established by such companies as FedEx, The Economist, and The White House. But many who would like to use it hesitate because they...
Provided by Acquia
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Whitepapers
IBM Dynamic Inventory Optimization Solution: Helping improve the bottom line through inventory optimization
Sep 2006
The IBM Dynamic Inventory Optimization Solution is designed to help companies manage inventory to optimal levels, providing the potential to reduce carrying and logistical costs, increase service...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
Ricoh Document Solutions Framework: A Strategy to Streamline Your Workflow
Mar 2007
The growing importance of managing information is felt daily by companies across every industry. Reports, e-mails, memos, letters, orders, faxes, instant messages - whether paper or electronic,...
Provided by Ricoh
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Whitepapers
Improving IT service delivery through an integrated approach to software asset management white paper
Oct 2009
This white paper describes the challenges of managing software rights in increasingly complex environments and discusses how SAM can make the entire process more efficient. Specifically, it...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
Do You Know Where Your Assets Are? Maximizing ROI with RFID Asset Management
Dec 2007
Companies today are making millions of dollars' worth of decisions based on data that is only about 70% accurate. They may have an existing procedure for how assets move through their internal or...
Provided by Intermec Technologies
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Whitepapers
Respond to changing business challenges faster with SOA
Jul 2009
A complex IT infrastructure is a stumbling block for many businesses seeking greater agility in these uncertain times. This white paper shows how a service oriented architecture (SOA) helps align...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
Dell Asset Recovery Services
Jan 2008
Dell delivers peace of mind with comprehensive asset recovery and data security services.
Provided by Dell
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White Papers
Enabling Agile and Intelligent Businesses
Jun 2009
Oracle SOA Suite 11g is a significant step forward toward empowering enterprises across the chasm to the next generation business applications that is powered by a platform delivering rapid...
Provided by Oracle
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Whitepapers
Dynamic Infrastructure Helping Build a Smarter PlanetDelivering Superior Business and IT Services with Agility and Speed
Sep 2009
In this smarter world, we need our infrastructure to propel us forward, not hold us back. This infrastructure becomes instrumented, interconnected and intelligent to bring together the business...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
The Oracle Data Integrator Enterprise Edition Architecture
Feb 2009
Oracle Data Integrator Enterprise Edition is built on several components all working together around a centralized metadata repository. These components — graphical modules, runtime components,...
Provided by Oracle
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Whitepapers
Strategic Asset Management
Sep 2009
An effective asset management system is designed to increase asset and resource effectiveness by providing a platform to support all types of asset classes and all types of work in a dynamic...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
Dell™ Proconsult Windows 7 Readiness Assessment FAQ
Jan 2009
What is the Microsoft®Windows®7 Readiness Assessment (W7RA)? W7RA is a gap analysis of a customer's ability to migrate to Windows 7 in a given timeframe. Your migration project is evaluated in...
Provided by Dell
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White Papers
Ricoh Storage and Management Solutions
Mar 2007
Storing and managing information in the workplace has never been a bigger challenge. With companies struggling to keep track of both paper and electronic files, sound document management solutions...
Provided by Ricoh
-
White Papers
Improving Return On Assets To Achieve High Performance: Using Overall Equipment Effectiveness
Aug 2009
Today, manufacturers work constantly to increase asset utilization and reduce loss in the ongoing effort to achieve high performance. Pressure from shareholders is greater than ever and the funds...
Provided by Accenture
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White Papers
Where To Find Diversification In A Highly Correlated World
Sep 2009
One of the basic tenets of portfolio construction is diversification, the strategy of owning multiple asset classes with different risk characteristics. In theory, diversifying a portfolio with...
Provided by FMR
-
White Papers
Solution Brief: Dell Equalogic PS Series Can Offer Robust, High-Availability Infrastructure for Microsoft's 2008 R2 HYPER-V
Nov 2009
Virtualization has become a popular IT strategy for enhancing hardware utilization, helping organizations decrease power, cooling, and data center footprint costs, and enhance the flexibility of...
Provided by Dell EqualLogic
-
Case Studies
Asset Servicing - Enhancing Operational Efficiencies And Assisting In Maximizing Investment Return
Mar 2009
Pepperdine University sought to partner with an asset servicing provider that could help them maximize their investment returns and enhance operational efficiencies. Specifically they required a...
Provided by JPMorgan Chase
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White Papers
Estate Planning Opportunities In A Poor Economy
Nov 2009
The natural tendency in a bad economy is to "Circle the wagons" and wait until the problem goes away. The reality is that times like these provide significant opportunities for those in a position...
Provided by Douglas K. Cook
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White Papers
Sybase IQ: The Economics of Business Reporting
Nov 2009
Reporting is recognized as a way for companies to improve service, ensure quality, control costs and prevent losses by empowering decision-makers throughout the organization. This paper explains...
Provided by Sybase
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White Papers
Oracle Hyperion Capital Asset Planning Datasheet
Jan 2010
To stay competitive, your organization must have accurate and predictable forecasts. This can be a challenge, though, when 75 percent of companies still use spreadsheets for planning, forecasting,...
Provided by Oracle
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White Papers
Survival Of The Fattest
Jan 2010
Both the recent cyclical declines in corporate performance and the prospect of a longer-term and secular restructuring promise to create a new pecking order in much of economic life. At one level,...
Provided by Deloitte LLP
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White Papers
Deterring Malware by Imitating Virtual Machines
Jan 2010
Securing hosts against intrusions is becoming increasingly important as resource and identity theft are rising in frequency and severity. Attackers often gain control of a system through software...
Provided by University of Michigan (Ross)
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White Papers
Deloitte 8th Annual Fair Value Pricing Survey
Jan 2010
The Eighth Annual Fair Value Pricing Survey represents current thinking related to valuation practices, industry policies, and procedures used by asset managers. As valuation practices have...
Provided by Deloitte LLP
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White Papers
How To Be An Asset Manager
Jan 2010
Asset management involves varies aspects and is a broad term to explain. To understand the meaning in short, asset management is a process that manages asset acquisition, disposal or use with a...
Provided by How To Do Things
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White Papers
Integrated Resource Management: Synchronizing Asset Management, Work Management And Supply Chain Management Utilities
Jan 2010
Implementing advanced supply chain capabilities (for example, cross-functional planning or collaborative forecasting) at a public utility has always been challenging. One reason is that utilities...
Provided by Accenture
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White Papers
Improving Return On Assets To Achieve High Performance: Using Overall Equipment Effectiveness As A Measure Of Asset Performance
Aug 2009
Today, manufacturers work constantly to increase asset utilization and reduce loss in the ongoing effort to achieve high performance. Pressure from shareholders is greater than ever and the funds...
Provided by Accenture
-
White Papers
Patch Plus Asset Inventory - You Can't Manage What You Can't See Or Don't Know About
Jan 2010
This paper aims to throw light on asset management of inventory of applications that is unmanaged in this rapidly changing mobile work environment. Shavlik's agentless and agent-based asset...
Provided by Shavlik Technologies
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White Papers
Learning, Long-Run Risks And Asset Price Jumps
Jan 2008
The authors develop a long-run risks based general equilibrium model in which asset prices exhibit large infrequent moves (i.e. jumps), similar to those observed in the data. Investors in this...
Provided by Duke University (Fuqua-Global)
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White Papers
Dynamic Trading And Asset Prices: Keynes vs. Hayek
Oct 2009
This paper presents an investigation on the dynamics of prices, information and expectations in a competitive, noisy, dynamic asset pricing equilibrium model. This paper shows that the prices are...
Provided by IESE School Of Business
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White Papers
Institutional Spending Rules And Asset Allocation
Jan 2009
Spending rules often guide institutions in determining the annual expenditures from their endowments. A typical rule is five percent of some measure of the value of the endowment. That many...
Provided by University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)
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White Papers
Sheltering Corporate Assets From Political Extraction
Jan 2008
The authors hypothesizes that firms structure their asset holdings so as to shelter assets from extraction by politicians and bureaucrats. Specifically, in countries where the threat of political...
Provided by Purdue University (Krannert)
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White Papers
"Fiscal Policy And Asset Markets: A Semiparametric Analysis"
Aug 2007
Using a flexible semiparametric varying coefficient model specification, this paper examines the role of fiscal policy on the U.S. asset markets (stocks, corporate and treasury bonds). This paper...
Provided by City University of London (Cass)
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White Papers
Asset Pricing With Spirit Of Capitalism In A Rare Disaster Framework
May 2010
The equity premium puzzle is celebrating its silver jubilee this year! And it is not because of lack of efforts on the part of economists. Diverse approaches - nonstandard preferences, transaction...
Provided by City University of London (Cass)
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White Papers
Time Varying Prospective Utility And Optimal Asset Allocation For Australasian Stocks And Bonds
May 2010
This paper presents evidence that the concept of the frequency of portfolio evaluation required to produce indifference between Stocks and Bonds is highly dependent upon the actual test sample...
Provided by City University of London (Cass)
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White Papers
International Allocation Determinants Of Institutional Investments In Venture Capital And Private Equity
Jan 2008
The authors of this paper examine the determinants of institutional investors when deciding on international capital allocation in Venture Capital and Private Equity Limited Partnerships; this is...
Provided by IESE School Of Business
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White Papers
Private Equity Has Toolkit To Ease Troubled Market
Oct 2008
The global economic crisis has many people playing the blame game, and private equity gets its share of the heat amid the ongoing credit crunch. But the public perception often doesn't match the...
Provided by University of Michigan (Ross)
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Valuing Toxic Assets: Will New Accounting Standards Help?
Apr 2009
Valuing asset securitizations always has been a difficult issue for the accounting profession. Now, with the recent collapse of the credit and financial markets, a new layer of complexity further...
Provided by University of Michigan (Ross)
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White Papers
Confidence Risk And Asset Prices
Jan 2010
In the data, asset prices exhibit large negative moves at frequencies of about 18 months. These large moves are puzzling as they do not coincide, nor are they followed by any significant moves in...
Provided by Duke University (Fuqua-Global)
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White Papers
Market Reaction To Securitization Retained Interest Impairments During The Financial Crisis Of 2007-2008
Mar 2010
In this study, the authors investigate equity market reactions to the announcement of impairments of retained interests arising from asset securitizations made by financial institutions during the...
Provided by London Business School
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A Model Of Asset Pricing Under Country Risk
Feb 2009
The author develops a formal model that could provide quantitative guidance to practitioners who use sovereign yield spreads in emerging market asset valuation. The model provides closed-form...
Provided by City University of London (Cass)
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Podcasts
IBM SPSS Predictive Operational Analytics
Apr 2013
With tight budgets, it isn't easy to create the operational dexterity needed to thrive in a competitive marketplace. View this demo to find out how IBM® SPSS® solutions for predictive operational...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Case Study eBook: Achieving Business Agility with Decision Management
Apr 2012
To achieve better everyday business results, organizations are turning to business rule management, or a combination of business rules and business events processing, to improve the timing and...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
Executive Compensation Based On Asset Values
Aug 2010
This paper describes how credit default swaps could be employed to create performance based executive compensation portfolios that reflect the value of a firm's debt as well as equity; i.e. the...
Provided by Lund University
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White Papers
Asset Allocation With Option-Implied Distributions: A Forward-Looking Approach
Apr 2009
The authors address the empirical implementation of the static asset allocation problem by employing forward-looking information from market option prices. To this end, constant maturity one month...
Provided by University of London
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White Papers
The Cass Centre For Asset Management Research
Nov 2008
In this paper, the authors investigate the influence of two factors on the risk taking behaviour of hedge fund managers. The first factor is the past performance of the fund relative to the...
Provided by Cass Business School
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White Papers
Can Excess Liquidity Signal An Asset Price Boom?
Aug 2007
This paper analyzes the relationship between the prevailing liquidity conditions (such as measures of money, credit and interest rates) and developments in asset prices from a monetary analysis...
Provided by National Bank of Belgium
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Monetary Policy, Asset Prices And Macroeconomic Conditions: A Panel-VAR Study
Oct 2008
This paper studies the relationships between inflation, economic activity, credit, monetary policy, and residential property and equity prices in 17 OECD countries, using quarterly data for...
Provided by National Bank of Belgium
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White Papers
A Monetary Approach To Asset Liquidity
Jan 2009
This paper offers a monetary theory of asset liquidity - one that emphasizes the role of assets in payment arrangements - and it explores the implications of the theory for the relationship...
Provided by Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland
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White Papers
Liquidity In Asset Markets With Search Frictions
Jun 2007
The authors study how trading frictions in asset markets affect the distribution of asset holdings, asset prices, efficiency, and standard measures of liquidity. To this end, they analyze the...
Provided by Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland
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White Papers
Two Heads Are Less Bubbly Than One: Team Decision-making In An Experimental Asset Market
Oct 2009
The authors study the effect of team decision-making on bubbles and crashes in experimental asset markets of the kind introduced by Smith, Suchanek and Williams (1988). They find that populating...
Provided by Institute for the Study of Labor
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Produce Or Speculate? Asset Bubbles, Occupational Choice And Efficiency
Dec 2009
The authors study the macroeconomic effects of rational asset bubbles in an overlapping-generations economy where asset trading requires specialized intermediaries and where agents freely choose...
Provided by Institute for the Study of Labor
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The Reaction Of Asset Prices To Macroeconomic Announcements In New EU Markets: Evidence From Intraday Data
Mar 2008
The authors estimate the impact of macroeconomic news on composite stock returns in three emerging European Union financial markets (the Budapest BUX, Prague PX-50, and Warsaw WIG-20), using...
Provided by Charles University
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League-table Incentives And Price Bubbles In Experimental Asset Markets
May 2011
The authors study experimental markets in which participants face incentives modeled upon those prevailing in markets for managed funds. Each participant's portfolio is periodically evaluated at...
Provided by Institute for the Study of Labor
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Nickels Versus Black Swans: Reputation, Trading Strategies And Asset Prices
Mar 2009
This paper analyzes a model of fund managers' reputation concerns. It explains why "Nickel strategies" (strategies that earn small positive returns most of the time but occasionally lead to...
Provided by Yale University
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White Papers
Is Noise Trading Cancelled Out By Aggregation?
Jan 2009
Conventional wisdom suggests that investors' independent biases should cancel each other out and have little impact on equilibrium at the aggregate level. In contrast to this intuition, this paper...
Provided by Yale University
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White Papers
Non-US Asset-backed Securities: Spread Determinants And Over-reliance On Credit Ratings
Jun 2009
In this paper, the authors empirically investigate two economic issues the factors that affect the primary market spread on non-U.S. asset-backed securities and whether investors rely solely on...
Provided by Yale School of Management
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White Papers
Migrating a Web Site to Drupal
Aug 2011
Drupal's advantages for running enterprise web sites are well established by such companies as FedEx, The Economist, and The White House. But many who would like to use it hesitate because they...
Provided by Acquia
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White Papers
Integrating Land Financing Into Subnational Fiscal Management
Aug 2010
Land assets have become an important source of financing capital investments by subnational governments in developing countries. Land assets, often with billions of dollars per transaction, rival...
Provided by The World Bank
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White Papers
Global Excess Liquidity And House Prices - A VAR Analysis For OECD Countries
Dec 2007
The belief that house prices are driven by specific regional and institutional variables and not at all by monetary conditions is so entrenched with some market participants and some commentators...
Provided by Ruhr-Universität Bochum
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White Papers
Asset Prices Under Habit Formation And Catching Up With The Jones
Dec 2010
This paper introduces a utility function that nests three classes of utility functions: time-separable utility functions; "Catching up with the Joneses" utility functions that depend on the...
Provided by JSTOR
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White Papers
Should Central Banks Burst Bubbles? Some Microeconomic Issues
Aug 2008
Policy towards speculative bubbles is examined in a model of a finite horizon "Greater fool" bubble, with rational agents, asymmetric information and short-sales constraints. This model permits...
Provided by University of Mississippi
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White Papers
Financing Speculative Booms
Mar 2010
This paper studies the financing of speculative asset-market booms in a standard framework with heterogeneous beliefs and short-sales constraints. Cash-constrained optimists use their asset...
Provided by University of Chicago
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White Papers
Intangible Capital, Relative Asset Shortages And Bubbles
Mar 2011
The authors analyze an OLG economy with financial frictions and accumulation of both physical and intangible capital. The key difference between these two types of capital is that intangible...
Provided by Harvard University
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White Papers
Stocks, Flows And Valuation Effects Of Foreign Assets And Liabilities: Do They Matter?
Jan 2008
Large holdings of foreign assets and liabilities, along with increasing relevance of valuation effects - capital gains or losses - have characterized global financial integration. In this paper,...
Provided by Central Bank of Chile
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White Papers
Liquidity And Asset Pricing: Evidence On The Role Of Investor Holding Period
Jan 2008
The authors use data on actual holding periods for all investors in a stock market over a 10 year period to investigate the links between holding periods, liquidity, and asset returns....
Provided by Norges Bank
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White Papers
Does Monetary Policy React To Asset Prices? Some International Evidence
Apr 2008
This paper attempts to measure the reaction of monetary policy to the stock market. The authors apply the procedure of Rigobon and Sack (2003) to identify and estimate a VAR in the presence of...
Provided by Norges Bank
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White Papers
Introducing Financial Assets Into Structural Models
May 2011
This paper reviews extensively the literature on asset pricing and builds a structural dynamic general equilibrium model with financial assets. The authors obtain the policy function of the...
Provided by Central Bank of Chile
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White Papers
Semi-static Hedging Based On A Generalized Reflection Principle On A Multi Dimensional Brownian Motion
Apr 2011
On a multi-assets Black-Scholes economy, the authors introduce a class of barrier options. In this model, they apply a generalized reflection principle in a context of the finite reflection group...
Provided by Cornell University
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White Papers
Is Conceptual Vagueness An Asset? Resilience Research From The Perspective Of Philosophy Of Science
May 2011
The author analyzes the research on social-ecological resilience from the perspective of philosophy of science in three steps. First, the author explores to what degree resilience research...
Provided by Leuphana Universität Lüneburg
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White Papers
Asset Pricing Puzzles Explained By Incomplete Brownian Equilibria
Sep 2010
The authors examine a class of Brownian based models which produce tractable incomplete equilibria. The models are based on finitely many investors with heterogeneous exponential utilities over...
Provided by Carnegie Mellon University
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White Papers
Asset Pricing With Random Information Flow
Sep 2010
In the information-based approach to asset pricing the market filtration is modeled explicitly as a superposition of signals concerning relevant market factors and independent noise. The rate at...
Provided by Imperial College London
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White Papers
Conditional Density Models For Asset Pricing
Oct 2010
The authors model the dynamics of asset prices and associated derivatives by consideration of the dynamics of the conditional probability density process for the value of an asset at some...
Provided by Imperial College London
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White Papers
Monetary Policy Under Alterative Asset Market Structures: The Case Of A Small Open Economy
Apr 2009
Can the structure of asset markets change the way monetary policy should be conducted? Following a linear-quadratic approach, the present paper addresses this question in a New Keynesian small...
Provided by Centre for Economic Performance
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White Papers
Rates Of Return And Alternative Measures Of Capital Input: 14 Countries And 10 Branches, 1971-2005
Nov 2009
The authors employ the EU KLEMS database to estimate the real rate of return to capital in 14 countries (11 in the EU, three outside the EU) in 10 branches of the market economy plus the market...
Provided by Centre for Economic Performance
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White Papers
Quantile Hedging For Multiple Assets Derivatives
Feb 2011
The problem of quantile hedging for multiple assets derivatives in the Black-Scholes model with correlation is considered. Explicit formulas for the probability maximizing function and the cost...
Provided by University of Leipzig
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White Papers
On Stochastic Calculus Related To Financial Assets Without Semimartingales
Feb 2011
This paper does not suppose a priori that the evolution of the price of a financial asset is a semimartingale. Since possible strategies of investors are self-financing, previous prices are forced...
Provided by Cornell University
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White Papers
Measuring Portfolio Diversification
Feb 2011
In the market place, diversification reduces risk and provides protection against extreme events by ensuring that one is not overly exposed to individual occurrences. The authors argue that...
Provided by University of KwaZulu-Natal
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White Papers
The Slippage Paradox
Mar 2011
Buying or selling assets leads to transaction costs for the investor. On one hand, it is well known to all market practionaires that the transaction costs are positive on average and present...
Provided by Cornell University
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White Papers
Constrained Mixture Models For Asset Returns Modelling
Mar 2011
The estimation of asset return distributions is crucial for determining optimal trading strategies. In this paper, the authors describe the constrained mixture model, based on a mixture of Gamma...
Provided by Imperial College London
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White Papers
Noise, Risk Premium, And Bubble
Mar 2011
The existence of the pricing kernel is shown to imply the existence of an ambient information process that generates market filtration. This information process consists of a signal component...
Provided by Imperial College London
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White Papers
Do Some Business Models Perform Better Than Others?
Nov 2007
This paper defines four basic business models based on what asset rights are sold (Creators, Distributors, Landlords and Brokers) and four variations of each based on what type of assets are...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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White Papers
Migrating a Web Site to Drupal
Aug 2011
Drupal's advantages for running enterprise web sites are well established by such companies as FedEx, The Economist, and The White House. But many who would like to use it hesitate because they...
Provided by Acquia
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Tools & Templates
Straight-Line Depreciation
Jan 2008
This tool tells you the straight-line depreciation of an asset or, the amount of depreciation for each period.
Provided by FreeOnlineCalculator .net
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Whitepapers
Respond to changing business challenges faster with SOA
Jul 2009
A complex IT infrastructure is a stumbling block for many businesses seeking greater agility in these uncertain times. This white paper shows how a service oriented architecture (SOA) helps align...
Provided by IBM
-
White Papers
Dell Asset Recovery Services
Jan 2008
Dell delivers peace of mind with comprehensive asset recovery and data security services.
Provided by Dell
-
White Papers
Enabling Agile and Intelligent Businesses
Jun 2009
Oracle SOA Suite 11g is a significant step forward toward empowering enterprises across the chasm to the next generation business applications that is powered by a platform delivering rapid...
Provided by Oracle
-
Whitepapers
Dynamic Infrastructure Helping Build a Smarter PlanetDelivering Superior Business and IT Services with Agility and Speed
Sep 2009
In this smarter world, we need our infrastructure to propel us forward, not hold us back. This infrastructure becomes instrumented, interconnected and intelligent to bring together the business...
Provided by IBM
-
White Papers
The Oracle Data Integrator Enterprise Edition Architecture
Feb 2009
Oracle Data Integrator Enterprise Edition is built on several components all working together around a centralized metadata repository. These components — graphical modules, runtime components,...
Provided by Oracle
-
Whitepapers
Strategic Asset Management
Sep 2009
An effective asset management system is designed to increase asset and resource effectiveness by providing a platform to support all types of asset classes and all types of work in a dynamic...
Provided by IBM
-
White Papers
Dell™ Proconsult Windows 7 Readiness Assessment FAQ
Jan 2009
What is the Microsoft®Windows®7 Readiness Assessment (W7RA)? W7RA is a gap analysis of a customer's ability to migrate to Windows 7 in a given timeframe. Your migration project is evaluated in...
Provided by Dell
-
White Papers
Ricoh Document Solutions Framework: A Strategy to Streamline Your Workflow
Mar 2007
The growing importance of managing information is felt daily by companies across every industry. Reports, e-mails, memos, letters, orders, faxes, instant messages - whether paper or electronic,...
Provided by Ricoh
-
White Papers
Ricoh Storage and Management Solutions
Mar 2007
Storing and managing information in the workplace has never been a bigger challenge. With companies struggling to keep track of both paper and electronic files, sound document management solutions...
Provided by Ricoh
-
Whitepapers
Improving IT service delivery through an integrated approach to software asset management white paper
Oct 2009
This white paper describes the challenges of managing software rights in increasingly complex environments and discusses how SAM can make the entire process more efficient. Specifically, it...
Provided by IBM
-
White Papers
Improving Return On Assets To Achieve High Performance: Using Overall Equipment Effectiveness
Aug 2009
Today, manufacturers work constantly to increase asset utilization and reduce loss in the ongoing effort to achieve high performance. Pressure from shareholders is greater than ever and the funds...
Provided by Accenture
-
White Papers
Where To Find Diversification In A Highly Correlated World
Sep 2009
One of the basic tenets of portfolio construction is diversification, the strategy of owning multiple asset classes with different risk characteristics. In theory, diversifying a portfolio with...
Provided by FMR
-
White Papers
Solution Brief: Dell Equalogic PS Series Can Offer Robust, High-Availability Infrastructure for Microsoft's 2008 R2 HYPER-V
Nov 2009
Virtualization has become a popular IT strategy for enhancing hardware utilization, helping organizations decrease power, cooling, and data center footprint costs, and enhance the flexibility of...
Provided by Dell EqualLogic
-
Case Studies
Asset Servicing - Enhancing Operational Efficiencies And Assisting In Maximizing Investment Return
Mar 2009
Pepperdine University sought to partner with an asset servicing provider that could help them maximize their investment returns and enhance operational efficiencies. Specifically they required a...
Provided by JPMorgan Chase
-
White Papers
Estate Planning Opportunities In A Poor Economy
Nov 2009
The natural tendency in a bad economy is to "Circle the wagons" and wait until the problem goes away. The reality is that times like these provide significant opportunities for those in a position...
Provided by Douglas K. Cook
-
White Papers
Sybase IQ: The Economics of Business Reporting
Nov 2009
Reporting is recognized as a way for companies to improve service, ensure quality, control costs and prevent losses by empowering decision-makers throughout the organization. This paper explains...
Provided by Sybase
-
White Papers
Oracle Hyperion Capital Asset Planning Datasheet
Jan 2010
To stay competitive, your organization must have accurate and predictable forecasts. This can be a challenge, though, when 75 percent of companies still use spreadsheets for planning, forecasting,...
Provided by Oracle
-
White Papers
Survival Of The Fattest
Jan 2010
Both the recent cyclical declines in corporate performance and the prospect of a longer-term and secular restructuring promise to create a new pecking order in much of economic life. At one level,...
Provided by Deloitte LLP
-
White Papers
Deterring Malware by Imitating Virtual Machines
Jan 2010
Securing hosts against intrusions is becoming increasingly important as resource and identity theft are rising in frequency and severity. Attackers often gain control of a system through software...
Provided by University of Michigan (Ross)
-
White Papers
Deloitte 8th Annual Fair Value Pricing Survey
Jan 2010
The Eighth Annual Fair Value Pricing Survey represents current thinking related to valuation practices, industry policies, and procedures used by asset managers. As valuation practices have...
Provided by Deloitte LLP
-
White Papers
How To Be An Asset Manager
Jan 2010
Asset management involves varies aspects and is a broad term to explain. To understand the meaning in short, asset management is a process that manages asset acquisition, disposal or use with a...
Provided by How To Do Things
-
White Papers
Integrated Resource Management: Synchronizing Asset Management, Work Management And Supply Chain Management Utilities
Jan 2010
Implementing advanced supply chain capabilities (for example, cross-functional planning or collaborative forecasting) at a public utility has always been challenging. One reason is that utilities...
Provided by Accenture
-
White Papers
Improving Return On Assets To Achieve High Performance: Using Overall Equipment Effectiveness As A Measure Of Asset Performance
Aug 2009
Today, manufacturers work constantly to increase asset utilization and reduce loss in the ongoing effort to achieve high performance. Pressure from shareholders is greater than ever and the funds...
Provided by Accenture
-
White Papers
Patch Plus Asset Inventory - You Can't Manage What You Can't See Or Don't Know About
Jan 2010
This paper aims to throw light on asset management of inventory of applications that is unmanaged in this rapidly changing mobile work environment. Shavlik's agentless and agent-based asset...
Provided by Shavlik Technologies
-
White Papers
Learning, Long-Run Risks And Asset Price Jumps
Jan 2008
The authors develop a long-run risks based general equilibrium model in which asset prices exhibit large infrequent moves (i.e. jumps), similar to those observed in the data. Investors in this...
Provided by Duke University (Fuqua-Global)
-
White Papers
Dynamic Trading And Asset Prices: Keynes vs. Hayek
Oct 2009
This paper presents an investigation on the dynamics of prices, information and expectations in a competitive, noisy, dynamic asset pricing equilibrium model. This paper shows that the prices are...
Provided by IESE School Of Business
-
White Papers
Institutional Spending Rules And Asset Allocation
Jan 2009
Spending rules often guide institutions in determining the annual expenditures from their endowments. A typical rule is five percent of some measure of the value of the endowment. That many...
Provided by University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)
-
White Papers
Sheltering Corporate Assets From Political Extraction
Jan 2008
The authors hypothesizes that firms structure their asset holdings so as to shelter assets from extraction by politicians and bureaucrats. Specifically, in countries where the threat of political...
Provided by Purdue University (Krannert)
-
White Papers
"Fiscal Policy And Asset Markets: A Semiparametric Analysis"
Aug 2007
Using a flexible semiparametric varying coefficient model specification, this paper examines the role of fiscal policy on the U.S. asset markets (stocks, corporate and treasury bonds). This paper...
Provided by City University of London (Cass)
-
White Papers
Asset Pricing With Spirit Of Capitalism In A Rare Disaster Framework
May 2010
The equity premium puzzle is celebrating its silver jubilee this year! And it is not because of lack of efforts on the part of economists. Diverse approaches - nonstandard preferences, transaction...
Provided by City University of London (Cass)
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White Papers
Time Varying Prospective Utility And Optimal Asset Allocation For Australasian Stocks And Bonds
May 2010
This paper presents evidence that the concept of the frequency of portfolio evaluation required to produce indifference between Stocks and Bonds is highly dependent upon the actual test sample...
Provided by City University of London (Cass)
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International Allocation Determinants Of Institutional Investments In Venture Capital And Private Equity
Jan 2008
The authors of this paper examine the determinants of institutional investors when deciding on international capital allocation in Venture Capital and Private Equity Limited Partnerships; this is...
Provided by IESE School Of Business
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Private Equity Has Toolkit To Ease Troubled Market
Oct 2008
The global economic crisis has many people playing the blame game, and private equity gets its share of the heat amid the ongoing credit crunch. But the public perception often doesn't match the...
Provided by University of Michigan (Ross)
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Valuing Toxic Assets: Will New Accounting Standards Help?
Apr 2009
Valuing asset securitizations always has been a difficult issue for the accounting profession. Now, with the recent collapse of the credit and financial markets, a new layer of complexity further...
Provided by University of Michigan (Ross)
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Confidence Risk And Asset Prices
Jan 2010
In the data, asset prices exhibit large negative moves at frequencies of about 18 months. These large moves are puzzling as they do not coincide, nor are they followed by any significant moves in...
Provided by Duke University (Fuqua-Global)
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Market Reaction To Securitization Retained Interest Impairments During The Financial Crisis Of 2007-2008
Mar 2010
In this study, the authors investigate equity market reactions to the announcement of impairments of retained interests arising from asset securitizations made by financial institutions during the...
Provided by London Business School
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A Model Of Asset Pricing Under Country Risk
Feb 2009
The author develops a formal model that could provide quantitative guidance to practitioners who use sovereign yield spreads in emerging market asset valuation. The model provides closed-form...
Provided by City University of London (Cass)
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