The role of multinational enterprises in globalization

This book offers a framework for analyzing the increased economic integration of countries which is mainly driven by multinational enterprises. They compete with other companies from different countries on many markets and through various channels. The book starts by discussing the stylized facts of the ...

Dynamics stochastic optimization

This volume considers optimal stochastic decision processes from the viewpoint of stochastic programming. It focuses on theoretical properties and on approximate or numerical solution techniques for time-dependent optimization problems with random parameters (multistage stochastic programs, optimal stochastic decision processes). Methods for finding approximate solutions of ...

Modeling software markets

empirical analysis, network simulations, and marketing implications

Die Patentfähigkeit von Arzneimitteln

der gewerbliche Rechtsschutz für pharmazeutische, medizinische und biotechnologische Erfindungen

Stochastic modeling and optimization

with applications in queues, finance, and supply chains

This book covers the broad range of research in stochastic models and optimization. Applications covered include networks, financial engineering, production planning and supply chain management. Each contribution is aimed at graduate students working in operations research, probability, and statistics

European tort Law 2002

Probability theory

independence, interchangeability, martingales

This is a text comprising the major theorems of probability theory and the measure theoretical foundations of the subject. The main topics treated are independence, interchangeability,and martingales; particular emphasis is placed upon stopping times, both as tools in proving theorems and as objects of ...

Competition policy in Europe

The modern industrial states desperately need more competition in order to generate growth and employment. Although the European Union pushed the member states to open several sectors to competition, there is much left to be done. At the same time powerful interest groups try to ...

Foreign exchange intervention as a monetary policy instrument

evidence for inflaction targeting countries

Dynamic efficiency and path dependencies in venture capital markets

This book offers a new explanation why venture capital in investments differ substantially between countries. Recent literature has attributed these differences to differences in the financial architecture and tax regulations. By contrast, this book shows by using simulations of a general equilibrium model that interactions ...

Modernisation and privatisation of postal systems in Europe

new opportunities in the area of financial services

E-Commerce-Recht in Europa und den USA

Cases on medical malpractice in a comparative perspective

Mathematics of the Internet

e-auction and markets