This article examines the role of family and the state in relation to theliving standards of the elderly in East Asia. It tries to test whetherfamilial arrangement according to Confucian ethics, which are still takenseriously in East Asia, secures the minimum standards of living for theelderly....

Furthering equity as an achievable public policy objective is based on theability to assess needs accurately, and distribute resources accordingly.The purpose of this paper is to plot the development of the formulaegoverning resource allocation in education, health and social housingand to chart...

Recent government pronouncements in the UK and above all the recent Conservative Party (2008) policy document on welfare reform suggest that US welfare reform is increasingly being taken as a model for the UK. What lessons should the UK draw from US experience? The long established means tested...

In the present note an effort will be made for a contribution to economic theory by estimating an econometric relationshiop between the foreign direct investment [FDI] an total economy's entrepreneurship reward. This note is baded mainly on the next two papers...

Changing the nature of governance arrangements comprises one element in the public service reform programme. New governance forms include arm’s-length agencies, multi-organisational partnerships, hybrids and company structures. In theory, changed governance arrangements offer benefits in terms...

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...