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Financial risk measurement and management

Diebold, Francis X. - 2012

academic research articles one should know in risk measurement and management. Through his central position in financial … Diebold's fascinating compilation summarizes the history of risk management research, focussing on research prior to the … involved in risk management, both in academia and in industry.'--Andrew Lo, MIT Sloan Management, US. This authoritative volume …

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Improving Value in Health Care : Measuring Quality

2010

Are breast cancer survival rates higher in the United States than in the United Kingdom and France? Are a patient's chances of dying within 30 days after admission to a hospital with a heart attack lower in Canada than in Korea? Are surgeons in some countries more likely to leave “foreign...

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Measuring sustainable production

2008

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Frameworks to Measure Sustainable Development : An OECD Expert Workshop

2000

On the surface there is agreement, sustainable development refers to a broad set of issues, going beyond the relationship between the economy and the environment to encompass human and social concerns. Scratch the surface and you open a Pandora's box of differing notions of sustainability and...

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Measuring What People Know : Human Capital Accounting for the Knowledge Economy

1996

A review of innovative policies in OECD countries shows that progress has already been made in moving beyond the poor information provided by standardised educational certification. Spurred by the emerging "knowledge economy", government policy makers, human resource managers, financial...

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Measuring Sustainable Production

2008

Most people support sustainable development without knowing what it is. What exactly are sustainable consumption and sustainable production, and how are these practices identified? This volume reviews the state-of-the-art in measuring sustainable production processes in industry. It includes...

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Research handbook on measuring poverty and deprivation

Silber, Jacques (ed.) - 2023

"Currently, works on poverty constitute only a small part of contemporary economic research; however, the field of poverty and deprivation is undoubtedly one rising in popularity and relevance. Encompassing chapters that address both unidimensional and multidimensional poverty, this timely...

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Measurement in marketing research : an alternative framework

Salzberger, Thomas - 2009

Measurement in Marketing Research investigates latent variables in marketing, focusing on current paradigms as well as recently suggested alternative concepts. The book proposes a unified scientific definition of measurement that allows for testing the hypothesis of the real existence of a...

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Foundations of the economics of innovation : theory, measurement, and practice

Grupp, Hariolf - 1998

This important new book presents the theoretical, econometric and applied foundations of the economics of innovation as well as offering a new approach to the measurement of technical change. The author, a leading expert in innovation economics and management, critically reviews current schools...

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Public procurement performance : A framework for measuring efficiency, compliance and strategic goals

OECD - 2023

greater accountability, better monitoring of public policies, and more effective risk management – have made it increasingly …

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