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Can Strategic Benchmarking Turn America's Economy Around?
Aug 2007
When it comes to global competitiveness, there's good news and bad news for America. The World Economic Forum's 2006 - 2007 Global Competitiveness Report ranked the U.S. among the top 10 most...
Provided by American Management Association
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White Papers
Financial Benchmarking: How Do You Compare To Your Competitors?
Feb 2010
There's no better evidence for the value of benchmarking than the Olympics. "The time to beat," we hear repeatedly as downhill skiers race for the finish line. That's what drives them to shatter...
Provided by American Express
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White Papers
If You Benchmark, You'll Find Customer-Centricity Sells Itself
Jan 2010
Every company is absolutely convinced that it is customer centric. Serving the customers, the CEO will argue, is what everyone in his operation does. After all, he sent a memo to everyone in the...
Provided by CustomerThink
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White Papers
Vacation Over: Implications For The Caribbean Of Opening U.S.-Cuba Tourism
May 2008
Assuming a social welfare function that smoothes expenditure, this paper calculates a sustainability benchmark for the non-mineral balance in Botswana that is based on a notion of a "permanent...
Provided by International Monetary Fund
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White Papers
Benchmarking The Efficiency Of Public Expenditure In The Russian Federation
Oct 2007
This paper benchmarks the efficiency of public expenditure in the social sectors in the Russian Federation relative to other countries and among the country's regions. It finds that there is...
Provided by International Monetary Fund
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White Papers
Improving Organizational Flexibility By Developing Change Leadership Capabilities
Jan 2010
Change is not what it used to be. The only certainty we have about tomorrow is that it will certainly be different from today. That's one reason the ability to manage change effectively has become...
Provided by Rath & Strong Management Consultants
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White Papers
IT Performance In The European Banking Industry
Jun 2008
Differences in IT spending behavior between global and local players are becoming somewhat more prominent, while differences among local players themselves are becoming less prominent. In 2006...
Provided by Boston Consulting Group
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White Papers
Aligning Commercial PC Benchmarks With The Needs Of Mainstream Users: Benchmarking For Today's Commercial Workloads
Aug 2009
In this white paper, the authors examine what amounts to appropriate PC performance for the two groups of users in today's commercial client market, and they discuss how to best measure it. They...
Provided by Advanced Micro Devices
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White Papers
Benchmarking Corporate Policies On Labor And Human Rights In Global Supply Chains
Nov 2009
Despite investors' commonly expressed concern for so-called environmental, social and governance (ESG) risks, there is little benchmarking of social factors such as labor and human rights (LHR)....
Provided by Harvard Law School
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White Papers
Understanding Total Cost Ownership Issues From A Value Analysis Perspective
Oct 2009
Commodity industrial products are no longer self-selling ticket items for manufacturers. Such manufacturers need to assess their value chain from a total cost ownership perspective for both their...
Provided by Eastern Michigan University
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White Papers
Creating Coaching Cultures: What Business Leaders Expect And Strategies To Get There
Apr 2009
This benchmark study is the result of a partnership between Cylient and The Center for Creative Leadership that gives voice to 347 leaders regarding the trends for utilizing coaching in...
Provided by Center for Creative Leadership
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White Papers
The Limits Of Information? A Game Theoretic Contribution To Understanding The Development Of An Indicators Policy For The UK Construction Industry
Jan 2011
In the UK over the last decade, benchmarking has been consistently promoted as a solution to the problems of industry and the construction industry in particular. Government support of...
Provided by University of Manchester
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White Papers
Mutual Fund Style, Characteristic-Matched Performance Benchmarks And Activity Measures: A New Approach
Jun 2010
The authors propose a new approach for measuring mutual fund style and constructing characteristic-matched performance benchmarks that requires only portfolio holdings and two reference portfolios...
Provided by University of New South Wales
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White Papers
Benchmarking The Effective Literacy Rate
Sep 2007
By now the importance of literacy in the process of development is widely accepted. However, unlike measuring welfare or inequality, the problem of literacy measurement remains largely unexamined....
Provided by Cornell University
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White Papers
Regulatory Reforms For Improving The Business Environment In Selected Asian Economies? How Monitoring And Comparative Benchmarking Can Provide Incentive For Reform
Jan 2010
This paper also identifies areas where reform has taken place and where further efforts are needed, such as addressing policy uncertainties, the quality of governance and legal and institutional...
Provided by Asian Development Bank
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White Papers
Are Banks Using Hidden Reserves To Beat Earnings Benchmarks? Evidence From Germany
Jan 2011
Section 340f of the German Commercial Code allows banks to provision against the special risks inherent to the banking business by building hidden reserves. Beyond risk provisioning, these...
Provided by University of Munster
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White Papers
Strategic Behavior And International Benchmarking For Monopoly Price Regulation: The Case Of Mexico
Jul 2010
This paper looks into various models that address strategic behavior in the supply of gas by the Mexican monopoly Pemex. The paper has three very strong technical results. First, the netback...
Provided by German Institute of Economic Research (DIW Berlin Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung e.V.)
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White Papers
International Benchmarking In Electricity Distribution: A Comparison Of French And German Utilities
Oct 2008
In this paper the authors present an international cross-country benchmarking analysis for utility regulation of France and Germany, the two largest electricity distribution countries in Europe....
Provided by German Institute of Economic Research (DIW Berlin Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung e.V.)
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White Papers
Do Professional Currency Managers Beat The Benchmark?
Dec 2007
The authors investigate an index of returns on professionally managed currency funds and a subset of returns from 34 individual currency fund managers. Over the period 1990-2006, excess returns...
Provided by New York University
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White Papers
Business Process Management II: Best Practices of Boeing and UPS
Oct 2006
This executive summary is a follow up report to APQC's 2005 "Business Process Management" Best- practice Report. It digs deeper into how organizations are navigating the transition from...
Provided by APQC
-
White Papers
Term Structure Equations Under Benchmark Framework
Aug 2009
This paper makes use of an integrated benchmark modeling framework that allows deriving term structure equations for bond and forward prices. The benchmark or numeraire is chosen to be the Growth...
Provided by Economics and Econometrics Research Institute
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White Papers
Should Benchmark Indices Have Alpha? Revisiting Performance Evaluation
Dec 2008
Standard Fama-French and Car hart models produce economically and statistically significant nonzero alphas even for passive benchmark indices such as the S&P 500 and Russell 2000. The authors find...
Provided by Arizona State University
-
White Papers
Over-And Under-Investment According To Different Benchmarks
Apr 2008
In a two-stage oligopoly, with investment in the first stage and quantity or price competition in the second stage, there is a kind of Folk Theorem: The authors find over-investment if the goods...
Provided by EconStor
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White Papers
Product Market Regulation And Market Work: A Benchmark Analysis
Mar 2009
Recent empirical work finds a negative correlation between product market regulation and aggregate employment. The authors examine the effect of product market regulations on hours worked in a...
Provided by Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
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Using Premia And Nsp For Constructing A Risk Management Benchmark For Testing Parallel Architecture
Jan 2010
Financial institutions have massive computations to carry out overnight which are very demanding in terms of the consumed CPU. The challenge is to price many different products on a cluster-like...
Provided by Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe
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White Papers
Benchmarking Local Ecological Performance Using Ecological Footprint Accounts
Nov 2010
Ecological footprint is good at telling how much the authors weight relative to global ecological ressources. However it tells nothing on their geographical origin and makes no distinction between...
Provided by Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe
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White Papers
Local Innovation Systems And Benchmarking
May 2008
This paper reviews approaches used for evaluating the performance of local or regional innovation systems. This evaluation is performed by a benchmarking approach in which a frontier production...
Provided by Friedrich Schiller University of Jena
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Investment And Value: A Neoclassical Benchmark
Mar 2008
Which investment model best fits firm-level data? To answer this question the authors estimate alternative models using Compustat data. Surprisingly, the two best-performing specifications are...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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An Econometric Model To Quantify Benchmark Downturn LGD On Residential Mortgages
Oct 2010
The paper describes a theoretical approach to determine the downturn LGD for residential mortgages, which is compliant with the regulatory requirement and thus suited to be used for validation, at...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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Improving International Comparisons Of Real Output: The ICP 2005 Benchmark And Its Implications For China
Nov 2010
The latest round of the International Comparisons Program (ICP 2005) compares the purchasing power of currencies and real output of 146 countries. Using price quote data from nine countries in the...
Provided by University of New South Wales
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A Retail Benchmarking Approach To Effcient Two-Way Access Pricing: Two-Part Tariffs
Sep 2007
The authors study a retail benchmarking approach to determine access prices for interconnected networks. Instead of considering fixed access charges as in the existing literature, they study...
Provided by NET Institute
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An Arbitrary Benchmark CAPM: One Additional Frontier Portfolio Is Sufficient
Oct 2008
The benchmark CAPM linearly relates the expected returns on an arbitrary asset, an arbitrary benchmark portfolio, and an arbitrary MV frontier portfolio. The benchmark is not required to be on the...
Provided by Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration
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The European Central Bank, The Federal Reserve And The Bank Of England: Is The Taylor Rule An Useful Benchmark For The Last Decade?
Nov 2009
The Taylor rule has been used in many studies in order to analyse the monetary policies. In this paper the author focuses on the Euro era and compares the ECB with other two central banks, the Fed...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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A Global Vision Over Benchmarking Process: Benchmarking Based Enterprises
Jul 2008
Benchmarking is using the knowledge and the experience of others to improve the enterprise. Starting from the analysis of the performance and underlying the strengths and weaknesses of the...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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A Retail Benchmarking Approach To Efficient Two-Way Access Pricing
Oct 2007
The authors study a retail benchmarking approach to determine access prices for interconnected networks. Instead of considering fixed access charges as in the existing literature, they study...
Provided by Universitat Pompeu Fabra
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Benchmarking And Understanding London's Cultural And Creative Industries
Apr 2009
This paper describes the Greater London Authority's evidence base for its work on the creative and cultural industries. Its main purpose is to show that th9is evidence base is viable, robust, and...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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Evaluating Land Administration Systems: A Comparative Method With An Application To Peru And Honduras
Feb 2009
This paper develops a methodology for the evaluation of land administration systems. The authors propose a set of quantitative and qualitative indicators with benchmarks for each one of them that...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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A Tool For Scrutinizing Bank Bailouts Based On Multi-Period Peer Benchmarking
Dec 2010
In the wake of the recent global financial crisis central banks and regulators are concerned about redirection of bailout funds into dividends. Yet, the authors do not know much about the extent...
Provided by University of Queensland
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E-Governance Of Universities: A Proposal Of Benchmarking Methodology
Nov 2007
This paper aims to provide a benchmarking proposal related to the area of e-governance of universities. An e-governance tool is proposed in order to disseminate both the mission and the...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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Performance Of Differential Evolution And Particle Swarm Methods On Some Relatively Harder Multi-modal Benchmark Functions
Nov 2007
Global Optimization (GO) is concerned with finding the optimum point(s) of a non-convex (multi-modal) function in an m-dimensional space. Although some work was done in the pre-1970's to develop...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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White Papers
Benchmarking Local Ecological Performance Using Ecological Footprint Accounts
Nov 2010
Ecological footprint is good at telling how much the authors weight relative to global ecological ressources. However it tells nothing on their geographical origin and makes no distinction between...
Provided by Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe
-
White Papers
Using Premia And Nsp For Constructing A Risk Management Benchmark For Testing Parallel Architecture
Jan 2010
Financial institutions have massive computations to carry out overnight which are very demanding in terms of the consumed CPU. The challenge is to price many different products on a cluster-like...
Provided by Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe
-
White Papers
Product Market Regulation And Market Work: A Benchmark Analysis
Mar 2009
Recent empirical work finds a negative correlation between product market regulation and aggregate employment. The authors examine the effect of product market regulations on hours worked in a...
Provided by Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
-
White Papers
Over-And Under-Investment According To Different Benchmarks
Apr 2008
In a two-stage oligopoly, with investment in the first stage and quantity or price competition in the second stage, there is a kind of Folk Theorem: The authors find over-investment if the goods...
Provided by EconStor
-
White Papers
Should Benchmark Indices Have Alpha? Revisiting Performance Evaluation
Dec 2008
Standard Fama-French and Car hart models produce economically and statistically significant nonzero alphas even for passive benchmark indices such as the S&P 500 and Russell 2000. The authors find...
Provided by Arizona State University
-
White Papers
Term Structure Equations Under Benchmark Framework
Aug 2009
This paper makes use of an integrated benchmark modeling framework that allows deriving term structure equations for bond and forward prices. The benchmark or numeraire is chosen to be the Growth...
Provided by Economics and Econometrics Research Institute
-
White Papers
Do Professional Currency Managers Beat The Benchmark?
Dec 2007
The authors investigate an index of returns on professionally managed currency funds and a subset of returns from 34 individual currency fund managers. Over the period 1990-2006, excess returns...
Provided by New York University
-
White Papers
International Benchmarking In Electricity Distribution: A Comparison Of French And German Utilities
Oct 2008
In this paper the authors present an international cross-country benchmarking analysis for utility regulation of France and Germany, the two largest electricity distribution countries in Europe....
Provided by German Institute of Economic Research (DIW Berlin Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung e.V.)
-
White Papers
Strategic Behavior And International Benchmarking For Monopoly Price Regulation: The Case Of Mexico
Jul 2010
This paper looks into various models that address strategic behavior in the supply of gas by the Mexican monopoly Pemex. The paper has three very strong technical results. First, the netback...
Provided by German Institute of Economic Research (DIW Berlin Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung e.V.)
-
White Papers
Are Banks Using Hidden Reserves To Beat Earnings Benchmarks? Evidence From Germany
Jan 2011
Section 340f of the German Commercial Code allows banks to provision against the special risks inherent to the banking business by building hidden reserves. Beyond risk provisioning, these...
Provided by University of Munster
-
White Papers
Regulatory Reforms For Improving The Business Environment In Selected Asian Economies? How Monitoring And Comparative Benchmarking Can Provide Incentive For Reform
Jan 2010
This paper also identifies areas where reform has taken place and where further efforts are needed, such as addressing policy uncertainties, the quality of governance and legal and institutional...
Provided by Asian Development Bank
-
White Papers
Benchmarking The Effective Literacy Rate
Sep 2007
By now the importance of literacy in the process of development is widely accepted. However, unlike measuring welfare or inequality, the problem of literacy measurement remains largely unexamined....
Provided by Cornell University
-
White Papers
Mutual Fund Style, Characteristic-Matched Performance Benchmarks And Activity Measures: A New Approach
Jun 2010
The authors propose a new approach for measuring mutual fund style and constructing characteristic-matched performance benchmarks that requires only portfolio holdings and two reference portfolios...
Provided by University of New South Wales
-
White Papers
The Limits Of Information? A Game Theoretic Contribution To Understanding The Development Of An Indicators Policy For The UK Construction Industry
Jan 2011
In the UK over the last decade, benchmarking has been consistently promoted as a solution to the problems of industry and the construction industry in particular. Government support of...
Provided by University of Manchester
-
White Papers
Creating Coaching Cultures: What Business Leaders Expect And Strategies To Get There
Apr 2009
This benchmark study is the result of a partnership between Cylient and The Center for Creative Leadership that gives voice to 347 leaders regarding the trends for utilizing coaching in...
Provided by Center for Creative Leadership
-
White Papers
Understanding Total Cost Ownership Issues From A Value Analysis Perspective
Oct 2009
Commodity industrial products are no longer self-selling ticket items for manufacturers. Such manufacturers need to assess their value chain from a total cost ownership perspective for both their...
Provided by Eastern Michigan University
-
White Papers
Benchmarking Corporate Policies On Labor And Human Rights In Global Supply Chains
Nov 2009
Despite investors' commonly expressed concern for so-called environmental, social and governance (ESG) risks, there is little benchmarking of social factors such as labor and human rights (LHR)....
Provided by Harvard Law School
-
White Papers
Aligning Commercial PC Benchmarks With The Needs Of Mainstream Users: Benchmarking For Today's Commercial Workloads
Aug 2009
In this white paper, the authors examine what amounts to appropriate PC performance for the two groups of users in today's commercial client market, and they discuss how to best measure it. They...
Provided by Advanced Micro Devices
-
White Papers
IT Performance In The European Banking Industry
Jun 2008
Differences in IT spending behavior between global and local players are becoming somewhat more prominent, while differences among local players themselves are becoming less prominent. In 2006...
Provided by Boston Consulting Group
-
White Papers
Improving Organizational Flexibility By Developing Change Leadership Capabilities
Jan 2010
Change is not what it used to be. The only certainty we have about tomorrow is that it will certainly be different from today. That's one reason the ability to manage change effectively has become...
Provided by Rath & Strong Management Consultants
-
White Papers
Benchmarking The Efficiency Of Public Expenditure In The Russian Federation
Oct 2007
This paper benchmarks the efficiency of public expenditure in the social sectors in the Russian Federation relative to other countries and among the country's regions. It finds that there is...
Provided by International Monetary Fund
-
White Papers
Vacation Over: Implications For The Caribbean Of Opening U.S.-Cuba Tourism
May 2008
Assuming a social welfare function that smoothes expenditure, this paper calculates a sustainability benchmark for the non-mineral balance in Botswana that is based on a notion of a "permanent...
Provided by International Monetary Fund
-
White Papers
If You Benchmark, You'll Find Customer-Centricity Sells Itself
Jan 2010
Every company is absolutely convinced that it is customer centric. Serving the customers, the CEO will argue, is what everyone in his operation does. After all, he sent a memo to everyone in the...
Provided by CustomerThink
-
White Papers
Financial Benchmarking: How Do You Compare To Your Competitors?
Feb 2010
There's no better evidence for the value of benchmarking than the Olympics. "The time to beat," we hear repeatedly as downhill skiers race for the finish line. That's what drives them to shatter...
Provided by American Express
-
White Papers
Can Strategic Benchmarking Turn America's Economy Around?
Aug 2007
When it comes to global competitiveness, there's good news and bad news for America. The World Economic Forum's 2006 - 2007 Global Competitiveness Report ranked the U.S. among the top 10 most...
Provided by American Management Association
-
White Papers
Optimizing Your Leadership Pipeline
Jun 2010
What will drive the success of the business? Aggressive top-line growth? Entering new global markets? Launching the next blockbuster product? Managing through an economic down-turn? No matter...
Provided by Development Dimensions International
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White Papers
Get Your Goals Right: Using Benchmarking In Setting Performance Targets
Mar 2009
Today - more than ever before - executives need to be sure they're calling the right pitch when setting their organization's strategic objectives. A custom benchmarking process offers insight into...
Provided by Penton Media
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White Papers
Effective Price Benchmarking With LTL's Most Popular Base Rate
Jul 2009
The once-humble surveyor's benchmark has evolved into a highly sophisticated analytical approach and management practice. Today "benchmarking" is used by businesses worldwide to compare cost,...
Provided by SMC³
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White Papers
Benchmarking IC Development Capability - Why?
Jun 2010
This paper presents a rigorous methodology for accurately benchmarking the capabilities of an FPGA architecture. The goal of benchmarking is to compare the capabilities of one FPGA architecture...
Provided by Numetrics Management Systems
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White Papers
Benchmarking Cost Savings And Cost Avoidance
Sep 2007
Sourcing Analytics, a leading provider of HR, payroll and benefits consulting services, today announced the results of the first-ever comprehensive study on the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) for...
Provided by NASPO
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White Papers
Guidance For Accurately Benchmarking FPGAs
Dec 2007
Managing the effectiveness of its workforce is one of the most critical performance management objectives for an organization today - and we anticipate it will remain so in the future. Simply put,...
Provided by Altera
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White Papers
Best Practices In Workforce Analytics: Applying Benchmarking To Mature Your Organization
Sep 2008
Through its Middle Cities Initiative, the Pioneer Institute has identified 14 cities in Massachusetts that are struggling with a number of related issues, including fiscal management, crime,...
Provided by Ventana Research
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White Papers
Reducing Tracking Error Noise With Fair Value Adjusted Benchmark Indices
Aug 2008
The IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) framework is part of the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) standard architecture and protocol specification for deploying real-time IP multimedia services...
Provided by Interactive Data
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White Papers
Municipal Benchmarks For Massachusetts Middle Cities: A Look At Economic Growth
May 2010
As U.S. retailers and shopping center owners exhaust domestic growth options and look increasingly outward at offshore opportunities, knowledge and data regarding the state of the industry in...
Provided by Pioneer
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White Papers
Understanding The New Performance Benchmark For IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) Architecture To Enable Next-Generation Networking (NGN)
Mar 2008
There have been thousands of references to federal background checks, criminal record checks, security checks, and heightened due diligence. Those working in the background check industry often...
Provided by Intel
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White Papers
Benchmarking Enterprise SSDs
Jun 2009
Benchmarking the performance of algorithms, devices, and programming methodologies is a well-worn topic among developers and research of high-performance computing appliances. Independent and...
Provided by STEC
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White Papers
Shared Services Benchmarking Study
May 2009
Sybase, Red Hat and HP are working together to provide a low total cost of ownership Linux solution for Sybase IQ with enterprise-quality performance, robustness, and scalability for...
Provided by Tides
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White Papers
Assessing FPGA DSP Benchmarks At 40 Nm
Mar 2009
This paper focuses on the commercial building sector in California. Additionally, state agencies and departments that own and operate facilities were given specific goals and assignments. Other...
Provided by Altera
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White Papers
Sybase IQ TPC-H Benchmark With Red Hat Enterprise Linux On HP ProLiant Systems
May 2010
Instant messaging (IM) has experienced tremendous growth, becoming the fastest growing communications medium in the history of communications. Industry analyst firm Meta Group anticipates that IM...
Provided by Sybase
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White Papers
How Outsourcing Buyers Benefit From Benchmarking
Apr 2010
Cost and price. It's crucial that buyers understand both when it comes to outsourcing. What is the cost of providing business services internally? What elements comprise that cost? What is the...
Provided by Everest Partners
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White Papers
If You Benchmark, You'll Find Customer-Centricity Sells Itself
Jan 2010
Every company is absolutely convinced that it is customer centric. Serving the customers, the CEO will argue, is what everyone in his operation does. After all, he sent a memo to everyone in the...
Provided by CustomerThink
-
White Papers
Vacation Over: Implications For The Caribbean Of Opening U.S.-Cuba Tourism
May 2008
Assuming a social welfare function that smoothes expenditure, this paper calculates a sustainability benchmark for the non-mineral balance in Botswana that is based on a notion of a "permanent...
Provided by International Monetary Fund
-
White Papers
Benchmarking The Efficiency Of Public Expenditure In The Russian Federation
Oct 2007
This paper benchmarks the efficiency of public expenditure in the social sectors in the Russian Federation relative to other countries and among the country's regions. It finds that there is...
Provided by International Monetary Fund
-
White Papers
Improving Organizational Flexibility By Developing Change Leadership Capabilities
Jan 2010
Change is not what it used to be. The only certainty we have about tomorrow is that it will certainly be different from today. That's one reason the ability to manage change effectively has become...
Provided by Rath & Strong Management Consultants
-
White Papers
IT Performance In The European Banking Industry
Jun 2008
Differences in IT spending behavior between global and local players are becoming somewhat more prominent, while differences among local players themselves are becoming less prominent. In 2006...
Provided by Boston Consulting Group
-
White Papers
Aligning Commercial PC Benchmarks With The Needs Of Mainstream Users: Benchmarking For Today's Commercial Workloads
Aug 2009
In this white paper, the authors examine what amounts to appropriate PC performance for the two groups of users in today's commercial client market, and they discuss how to best measure it. They...
Provided by Advanced Micro Devices
-
White Papers
Benchmarking Corporate Policies On Labor And Human Rights In Global Supply Chains
Nov 2009
Despite investors' commonly expressed concern for so-called environmental, social and governance (ESG) risks, there is little benchmarking of social factors such as labor and human rights (LHR)....
Provided by Harvard Law School
-
White Papers
Understanding Total Cost Ownership Issues From A Value Analysis Perspective
Oct 2009
Commodity industrial products are no longer self-selling ticket items for manufacturers. Such manufacturers need to assess their value chain from a total cost ownership perspective for both their...
Provided by Eastern Michigan University
-
White Papers
Creating Coaching Cultures: What Business Leaders Expect And Strategies To Get There
Apr 2009
This benchmark study is the result of a partnership between Cylient and The Center for Creative Leadership that gives voice to 347 leaders regarding the trends for utilizing coaching in...
Provided by Center for Creative Leadership
-
White Papers
The Limits Of Information? A Game Theoretic Contribution To Understanding The Development Of An Indicators Policy For The UK Construction Industry
Jan 2011
In the UK over the last decade, benchmarking has been consistently promoted as a solution to the problems of industry and the construction industry in particular. Government support of...
Provided by University of Manchester
-
White Papers
Mutual Fund Style, Characteristic-Matched Performance Benchmarks And Activity Measures: A New Approach
Jun 2010
The authors propose a new approach for measuring mutual fund style and constructing characteristic-matched performance benchmarks that requires only portfolio holdings and two reference portfolios...
Provided by University of New South Wales
-
White Papers
Benchmarking The Effective Literacy Rate
Sep 2007
By now the importance of literacy in the process of development is widely accepted. However, unlike measuring welfare or inequality, the problem of literacy measurement remains largely unexamined....
Provided by Cornell University
-
White Papers
Regulatory Reforms For Improving The Business Environment In Selected Asian Economies? How Monitoring And Comparative Benchmarking Can Provide Incentive For Reform
Jan 2010
This paper also identifies areas where reform has taken place and where further efforts are needed, such as addressing policy uncertainties, the quality of governance and legal and institutional...
Provided by Asian Development Bank
-
White Papers
Are Banks Using Hidden Reserves To Beat Earnings Benchmarks? Evidence From Germany
Jan 2011
Section 340f of the German Commercial Code allows banks to provision against the special risks inherent to the banking business by building hidden reserves. Beyond risk provisioning, these...
Provided by University of Munster
-
White Papers
Strategic Behavior And International Benchmarking For Monopoly Price Regulation: The Case Of Mexico
Jul 2010
This paper looks into various models that address strategic behavior in the supply of gas by the Mexican monopoly Pemex. The paper has three very strong technical results. First, the netback...
Provided by German Institute of Economic Research (DIW Berlin Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung e.V.)
-
White Papers
International Benchmarking In Electricity Distribution: A Comparison Of French And German Utilities
Oct 2008
In this paper the authors present an international cross-country benchmarking analysis for utility regulation of France and Germany, the two largest electricity distribution countries in Europe....
Provided by German Institute of Economic Research (DIW Berlin Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung e.V.)
-
White Papers
Do Professional Currency Managers Beat The Benchmark?
Dec 2007
The authors investigate an index of returns on professionally managed currency funds and a subset of returns from 34 individual currency fund managers. Over the period 1990-2006, excess returns...
Provided by New York University
-
White Papers
Business Process Management II: Best Practices of Boeing and UPS
Oct 2006
This executive summary is a follow up report to APQC's 2005 "Business Process Management" Best- practice Report. It digs deeper into how organizations are navigating the transition from...
Provided by APQC
-
White Papers
Term Structure Equations Under Benchmark Framework
Aug 2009
This paper makes use of an integrated benchmark modeling framework that allows deriving term structure equations for bond and forward prices. The benchmark or numeraire is chosen to be the Growth...
Provided by Economics and Econometrics Research Institute
-
White Papers
Should Benchmark Indices Have Alpha? Revisiting Performance Evaluation
Dec 2008
Standard Fama-French and Car hart models produce economically and statistically significant nonzero alphas even for passive benchmark indices such as the S&P 500 and Russell 2000. The authors find...
Provided by Arizona State University
-
White Papers
Over-And Under-Investment According To Different Benchmarks
Apr 2008
In a two-stage oligopoly, with investment in the first stage and quantity or price competition in the second stage, there is a kind of Folk Theorem: The authors find over-investment if the goods...
Provided by EconStor
-
White Papers
Product Market Regulation And Market Work: A Benchmark Analysis
Mar 2009
Recent empirical work finds a negative correlation between product market regulation and aggregate employment. The authors examine the effect of product market regulations on hours worked in a...
Provided by Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
-
White Papers
Using Premia And Nsp For Constructing A Risk Management Benchmark For Testing Parallel Architecture
Jan 2010
Financial institutions have massive computations to carry out overnight which are very demanding in terms of the consumed CPU. The challenge is to price many different products on a cluster-like...
Provided by Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe
-
White Papers
Benchmarking Local Ecological Performance Using Ecological Footprint Accounts
Nov 2010
Ecological footprint is good at telling how much the authors weight relative to global ecological ressources. However it tells nothing on their geographical origin and makes no distinction between...
Provided by Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe
-
White Papers
Local Innovation Systems And Benchmarking
May 2008
This paper reviews approaches used for evaluating the performance of local or regional innovation systems. This evaluation is performed by a benchmarking approach in which a frontier production...
Provided by Friedrich Schiller University of Jena
-
White Papers
Reinventing Leadership Development: Proactive and Progressive Strategies:
Apr 2011
In this tough business climate, this ExecBlueprint's authors see manifold opportunity-for those leaders who can not only change with the times, but who are capable of leading the charge. Such...
Provided by SkillSoft
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White Papers
Investment And Value: A Neoclassical Benchmark
Mar 2008
Which investment model best fits firm-level data? To answer this question the authors estimate alternative models using Compustat data. Surprisingly, the two best-performing specifications are...
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An Econometric Model To Quantify Benchmark Downturn LGD On Residential Mortgages
Oct 2010
The paper describes a theoretical approach to determine the downturn LGD for residential mortgages, which is compliant with the regulatory requirement and thus suited to be used for validation, at...
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Improving International Comparisons Of Real Output: The ICP 2005 Benchmark And Its Implications For China
Nov 2010
The latest round of the International Comparisons Program (ICP 2005) compares the purchasing power of currencies and real output of 146 countries. Using price quote data from nine countries in the...
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A Retail Benchmarking Approach To Effcient Two-Way Access Pricing: Two-Part Tariffs
Sep 2007
The authors study a retail benchmarking approach to determine access prices for interconnected networks. Instead of considering fixed access charges as in the existing literature, they study...
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An Arbitrary Benchmark CAPM: One Additional Frontier Portfolio Is Sufficient
Oct 2008
The benchmark CAPM linearly relates the expected returns on an arbitrary asset, an arbitrary benchmark portfolio, and an arbitrary MV frontier portfolio. The benchmark is not required to be on the...
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The European Central Bank, The Federal Reserve And The Bank Of England: Is The Taylor Rule An Useful Benchmark For The Last Decade?
Nov 2009
The Taylor rule has been used in many studies in order to analyse the monetary policies. In this paper the author focuses on the Euro era and compares the ECB with other two central banks, the Fed...
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A Global Vision Over Benchmarking Process: Benchmarking Based Enterprises
Jul 2008
Benchmarking is using the knowledge and the experience of others to improve the enterprise. Starting from the analysis of the performance and underlying the strengths and weaknesses of the...
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A Retail Benchmarking Approach To Efficient Two-Way Access Pricing
Oct 2007
The authors study a retail benchmarking approach to determine access prices for interconnected networks. Instead of considering fixed access charges as in the existing literature, they study...
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Benchmarking And Understanding London's Cultural And Creative Industries
Apr 2009
This paper describes the Greater London Authority's evidence base for its work on the creative and cultural industries. Its main purpose is to show that th9is evidence base is viable, robust, and...
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Evaluating Land Administration Systems: A Comparative Method With An Application To Peru And Honduras
Feb 2009
This paper develops a methodology for the evaluation of land administration systems. The authors propose a set of quantitative and qualitative indicators with benchmarks for each one of them that...
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A Tool For Scrutinizing Bank Bailouts Based On Multi-Period Peer Benchmarking
Dec 2010
In the wake of the recent global financial crisis central banks and regulators are concerned about redirection of bailout funds into dividends. Yet, the authors do not know much about the extent...
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E-Governance Of Universities: A Proposal Of Benchmarking Methodology
Nov 2007
This paper aims to provide a benchmarking proposal related to the area of e-governance of universities. An e-governance tool is proposed in order to disseminate both the mission and the...
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Performance Of Differential Evolution And Particle Swarm Methods On Some Relatively Harder Multi-modal Benchmark Functions
Nov 2007
Global Optimization (GO) is concerned with finding the optimum point(s) of a non-convex (multi-modal) function in an m-dimensional space. Although some work was done in the pre-1970's to develop...
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Consumption Externalities And Capital Accumulation In An Overlapping Generations Economy
Aug 2009
This paper extends the standard overlapping generation's model of capital accumulation by introducing consumption externalities. It is assumed that each generation's felicity depends on the social...
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