We show that returns policies do increase manufacturer profitability by attenuating price competition between retailers …. This effect holds only in the presence of end-user demand uncertainty. The conditions under which a returns policy raises … returns policies serve both to dampen competition and resolve demand uncertainty. …

the owners in the management. Family firm is the most common form of business in Greece. Hence, the governance structures … explore the main aspects of CG of family-owned listed companies in Greece. For this purpose, we apply a specific CG rating … on the current state of corporate governance in Greece. Each firm is rated among the 120 total number of companies (both …

We examine the transmission process of the policy rate to the lending and deposit rates in Greece for the period 1996 … of Greece into EMU in 2001. The bank rates become much more responsive to the policy rate in terms of impact multipliers …

present the main aspects of corporate governance in Greece, contributing to the relevant growing body of literature, and (ii …) to place the current corporate governance developments and trends in Greece within the international debate, especially … governance debate and its implication at the EU level. Secondly, I describe the corporate governance framework in Greece in the …

importance of the market movements. These indices are based on the price volatility and are computed by integrating mapped asset …

financial instruments in the portfolio and on the volatility of those returns.This task is relatively simple if the correlations … order to prevent against crises.Portfolio managers typically rely on estimates of correlations between returns on the … and volatilities do not change over time.But in reality both volatility and stock market indexes’ correlations do change …

applications in power industries. This model with stochastic volatility of the forward price is built using the ideas and equations … of stochastic differential geometry in order to close the system of equations for the forward price and its volatility …. Stationary distributions for the forward price volatility are found analytically as well as the forward price curves in the one …

affected by ‘vo- latility contagion’ coming from emerging markets. I find also some partial support for the ‘volatility …

exemplifies how heterogeneity concerning the volatility of two stochastic processes may lead to chaotic motion; the second is a …