The directory of development organizations, listing 70,000 development organizations, has been prepared to facilitate international cooperation and knowledge sharing in development work, both among civil society organizations, academic and research institutions, governments and the private sector.

The focus of the paper is on the remuneration of executives of large European banks. We describe the pay-for-performance sensitivity of the compensation and its disclosure as two dimensions of the board remuneration systems in the European countries.

Die derzeit durch Studien festgestellte Abnahme des Interesses gegenüber 'Mobile e-business' verwundert nicht angesichts der sehr eingeengten Diskussion, die auf Lösungen für Mobiltelefone und elektronische Organizer fokussiert ist. 'Mobile e-business' geht weit darüber hinaus und wird...

In this paper we investigate the potential of the analysis of noisy non-stationary time series by quantizing it into streams of discrete symbols and applying finite-memory symbolic predictors. The main argument is that careful quantization can reduce the noise in the time series to make model...

We extend the definition of coherent risk measures, as introduced byArtzner, Delbaen, Eber and Heath, to general probability spaces and we show how to define such measures on the space of all random variables. We also give examples that relates the theory of coherent risk measures to game theory...

Bundesgesetz vom 18. Oktober 1978über den Betrieb und die Beaufsichtigungder Vertragsversicherung (Versicherungsaufsichtsgesetz— VAG)

This paper reviews recent revisionist studies of imperialism that demonstrate the complexities behind the late Qing state's strategy to accommodate to new challenges born out of foreign conflicts exacerbated by domestic crises. These publications have pointed scholars away from the exclusivity...

This paper shows that the stock price of the rating agency Moody’s reacts negatively to ratingactions that are perceived to indicate low rating quality. The reaction is economicallysignificant. The cumulative effect corresponds to a 20% loss in market capitalization. Thissuggests that market...