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Happiness research (Glücksforschung) - eine Abkehr vom Materialismus

Ruckriegel, Karlheinz - 2007

„Stellen wir uns vor, an jedem Tag würde ein winzigesQuantum mehr Liebe, Vernunft, Klugheit aufscheinen.Menschen würden sich eine Spur aufmerksamerbehandeln. Liebende würden eine Nuanceliebevoller miteinander umgehen. Bürger würdensich ein winziges Stück weit kooperativer...

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Quo vadis, Soziale Markwirtschaft? Statement im Rahmen des Kommentargottesdienstes in der Lorenzkirche vom 19.10.2008 - erweiterte Fassung vom 30.10.2008 -

Ruckriegel, Karlheinz - 2008

Steht das christliche Denken in einem Widerspruch zur (Grundkonzeption der) Sozialen Markwirtschaft, deren 60jährigen Geburtstag wir in diesem Jahr gefeiert haben? Was ist das Menschenbild in der Konzeption der Sozialen Marktwirtschaft? In einem Aufruf zum Festakt zur Erneuerung der Sozialen...

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Ergebnisse der Glücksforschung : Folgerungen für Politik und Unternehmen – ein Paradigmenwechsel

Ruckriegel, Karlheinz - 2006

Warum wächst unser Glücksempfinden nicht notwendigerweise mit der Wirtschaft mit? Welche Glücksfaktoren gibt es – und welche Auswirkungen haben sie auf Politik, Unternehmen und Gesellschaft? Professor Karlheinz Ruckriegel zeigt, wie die aktuellen Erkenntnisse der Glücksforschung eine immer...

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Minimum Disparity Estimator in Continuous Time Stochastic Volatility Model

Li, Ziliang - 2010

In the study of finance, likelihood based or moment based methods are frequently used to estimate parameters for various kinds of models given the sampled return data. While the former method is not robust, the latter one suffers from loss of efficiency and high noise-to-signal ratio in the...

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Two statistical problems related to credit scoring / Tanja de la Rey.

De la Rey, Tanja - 2007

This thesis focuses on two statistical problems related to credit scoring. In credit scoring of individuals, two classes are distinguished, namely low and high risk individuals (the so-called "good" and "bad" risk classes). Firstly, we suggest a measure which may be used to study the nature of a...

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Parameter Estimation for the Lognormal Distribution

Ginos, Brenda Faith 1986- - 2009

The lognormal distribution is useful in modeling continuous random variables which are greater than or equal to zero. Example scenarios in which the lognormal distribution is used include, among many others: in medicine, latent periods of infectious diseases; in environmental science, the...

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Parameter Estimation for the Beta Distribution

Owen,Claire Elayne Bangerter 1984- - 2008

The beta distribution is useful in modeling continuous random variables that lie between 0 and 1, such as proportions and percentages. The beta distribution takes on many different shapes and may be described by two shape parameters, alpha and beta, that can be difficult to estimate. Maximum...

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Measuring Nonstationary Cycles: a Time-Deformation Approach

Movchan, Oleksandr Victorovich - 2009

This dissertation consists of three essays on modeling and parameter estimation for covariance non-stationary processes. The first essay considers the non-linear deformation of time scale for G(lambda)-stationary processes developed by Jiang, Gray and Woodward [2006]. After the appropriate...

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An exploration of frontline staff service orientated behaviours

Beatson, Amanda T.; Lings, Ian - 2005

affect staff performance, their satisfaction with their job and their quitting intentions. With that in mind, this study …, job satisfaction, affective commitment and instrumental commitment, and intention to leave the organisation. The study is … service orientation positively impacts their behaviour towards customers, as does training. However, employee satisfaction and …

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Enterprise systems success: a measurement model

Sedera, Darshana - 2006

Organizations make large investments in Information Systems (IS) expecting positive impacts to the organisation and its functions. Yet, there exists much controversy surrounding the 'potential' impacts of these systems, with some studies reporting broadly positive impacts of IS across...

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