We analyse the dynamics and evolution of the corporate restructuring process in the Portuguese banking sector, where 10 banks were privatised during the period 1989–1996. We apply a novel methodological approach in this context, using a multidimensional measure of restructuring that links...

Die Kumulation von Haushaltsstichproben steht auf der Agenda einer europäischen Neuordnung von Haushaltsbefragungen. Im Rahmen des Projektes ‚Amtliche Statistik und sozioökonomische Fragestellungen‘ des Statistischen Bundesamtes und in Abstimmung mit den EUROSTAT-Erfordernissen für neue...

The aim of this study is to investigate the relation between the demographic features and the attitude devoted to the statistics lesson of the students in departments of business administration, economics and public finance that will be able to effective on the socio- economic structure of our...

Student satisfaction is an important measure of service quality in libraries. Students’ perceptions about libraries seem to have been largely ignored by library management in developing countries. The assessment of service quality provides an important feedback for libraries to assess and...

With overlapping questionnaires design, called split questionnaire design by, the total sample is subdivided, with different sub-sample exposed to different, but overlapping sections of the total qustionnaire. the design is a flexible tool to collect complex data without exhausting the...

Accession negotiations between Turkey and the EU have been opened and the screening process has been underway since October 2005. No doubt that one of the most important and potentially troublesome chapters will be agriculture throughout the process of negotiations. Agricultural negotiations...

Traditional groups meetings are an inefficient and ineffective method for making forecasts and decisions. We compare two structured alternatives to traditional meetings: the Delphi technique and prediction markets. Delphi is relatively simple and cheap to implement and has been adopted for...

An analytic approximation is derived for leverage levels that result from optimization of the logarithmic utility function associated with the Kelly criterion. An extension of this approximation, for the case when returns are drawn from a Student t-distribution, is then provided for a...

This study employs the rolling bicorrelation statistic to measure the degree of stock price deviations from a random walk for the stock markets of 50 countries over the period 1995-2005. We find that stock markets in economies with low per capita GDP in general experience more persistent price...