This book deals with anti-dumping measures (AD) and investigates two questions: First, what country characteristics affect AD use and notably, do domestic political institutions have an effect? Second, (how) is the decision to impose a new AD measure affected by anticipation of trading...

1. Introduction -- 2. Closed Queueing Networks -- 3. Literature Review -- 4. Decomposition Approach -- 5. Markov-chain Approach -- 6. Distribution of the Time between Processing Starts -- 7. Conclusion

This thesis presents a new strategy that unites qualitative and quantitative mass data in form of text news and tick-by-tick asset prices to forecast the risk of upcoming volatility shocks. Holger Kömm embeds the proposed strategy in a monitoring system, using first, a sequence of competing...

Inhaltsverzeichnis -- Einführung -- Erzeugung von Zufallsvariablen -- Ereignisorientierte Simulation -- Output Analyse: Statistische Auswertung der Simulationsergebnisse -- Statische Simulationsmodelle -- Input Analyse: Festlegung der Eingabegrößen -- Varianzreduzierende Verfahren --...