Conceptual Framework: Remote Services in Context of Technology-Mediated Services -- Theoretical Framework for Remote Service Adoption and Continued Usage -- Methodological Superstructure and Empirical Setting -- Qualitative Exploratory Interview Study -- Hypotheses Development -- Quantitative...

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 --...

This book proposes new methods to value equity and model the Markowitz efficient frontier using Markov switching models and provide new evidence and solutions to capture the persistence observed in stock returns across developed and emerging markets