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Performance of derivative free search ANN training algorithm with time series and classification problems
Ahmed, Shamsuddin - In: Computational Statistics 28 (2013) 5, pp. 1881-1914
algorithm identifies benchmark solution. Copyright Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2013 …
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Formation of the Innovation Component of Marketing Technologies of Enterprises That Produce Mineral Waters
Golodniuk Olena S. - In: Business Inform (2014) 3, pp. 407-412
The article considers main marketing technologies of building competitive advantages by enterprises that produce Ukrainian mineral waters. It considers individual innovations of the conceptual (eco-marketing) and applied (branding, benchmarking and competitive reconnaissance) nature with...
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The myth of demonetarization of gold : can it happen again?
LORANGER, Jean-Guy - Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de … - 2010
by new anchor or benchmark for the international currency, a money-commodity. The need for understanding the definition …
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Did Gold Remain Relevant in the Post-1971 International Monetary System?
LORANGER, Jean-Guy - Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de … - 2012
The central hypothesis to be tested is the relevance of gold in the determination of the value of the US dollar as an international reserve currency after 1971. In the first section the market value of the US dollar is analysed by looking at new forms of value (financial derivative products),...
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Benchmark tipping in the global bond market
Kreicher, Lawrence; McCauley, Robert N; Wooldridge, Philip - Bank for International Settlements (BIS) - 2014
and the Triennial Central Bank survey on over-the-counter (OTC) markets suggests that the benchmark is tipping from …
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New hard benchmark for flowshop scheduling problems minimising makespan
Vallada, Eva; Ruiz, Rubén; Framinan, Jose M. - In: European Journal of Operational Research 240 (2015) 3, pp. 666-677
In this work a new benchmark of hard instances for the permutation flowshop scheduling problem with the objective of … minimising the makespan is proposed. The new benchmark consists of 240 large instances and 240 small instances with up to 800 … jobs and 60 machines. One of the objectives of the work is to generate a benchmark which satisfies the desired …
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Portfolio optimization for an investor with a benchmark
Korn, R.; Lindberg, C. - In: Decisions in Economics and Finance 37 (2014) 2, pp. 373-384
The most common equity mandate in the financial industry is to try to outperform an externally given benchmark with …. We provide a theoretical justification to this methodology by verifying that applying the one-period benchmark … benchmark and evaluates her performance based on exponential utility at a deterministic future date. Copyright Springer …
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Sovereign wealth funds, catalyzers for global financial markets
DEDU, Vasile; NIȚESCU, Dan Costin - In: Theoretical and Applied Economics XVIII(2014) (2014) 2(591), pp. 7-18
In this paper we briefly present the impact of sovereign wealth funds on the global financial markets, the advantages they offer and the concerns they have generated lately. Sovereign wealth funds have emerged as important players in global financial markets and their stability. Although they...
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Measuring Romanian do-it-yourself retail chain’s efficiency during the economic crisis
Alt, Mónika-Anetta - In: Tržište/Market 24 (2012) 1, pp. 85-102
The purpose of this study is to measure Romanian do-it-yourself retailers’ efficiency during the period of 2007-2010. The sample encompassed all do-it-yourself retail chains in Romania present in the market during the given period, that is 10 chains in all. For the purpose of the analysis, the...
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Multi-Period Emissions Trading in the Electricity Sector : Winners and Losers
Bode, Sven - HWWA Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung - 2004
Emission trading has become recently more and more import in environmental regulation. In the context of controlling greenhouse gas emissions, the directive on a Europewide trading scheme for large immobile sources may be perceived as one of the most important milestones in recent years. Prior...
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