The authors examine the concept of customer benefits in business-to-business markets in an international context. They distinguish between core and add-on benefits, and they discuss product quality, service quality, flexibility, trust, joint action, and commitment of the supplier as determinants...

We study the effect of standardized external tests on students’ academic outcomes. We exploit the fact that only one of the 17 Spanish regions started doing and publishing the results of standardized tests in 2005 and apply a difference-in-difference methodology using outcomes of the PISA...

In this paper, Extreme value theory (EVT) is applied in estimating low quantiles of P/L distribution and the results are compared to common VaR methodologies. The fundamental theory behind EVT is built, and peaks-over-threshold method is used for modeling the tail of the distribution of losses...