Summary During the Olympic Games and the World Championships Single Distances the 1000m is skated by every skater only one time. However, there may be a difference in skating a 1000m race with a start in the inner and the outer lane that introduces an externality that introduces unfairness. We...

Quantitative economics has advanced dramatically in the past eighty years and much of this took place in the three decades following World War II. Many contributions were initiated and sponsored by the defense community. For the resolution of major military management and planning problems it...

Abstract A proposal for applying network analysis to a foreign exchange (FX) settlement system is considered. In particular, network centrality metrics are used to analyse payments of financial institutions which settle through CLS Bank (CLS). Network centrality metrics provide a way to study...

A new approach for investigating the correlation between research quality and citation counts is presented and applied to a case study of the relationship between peer evaluations reflected in scholarly book reviews and the citation frequencies of reviewed books. Results of the study designate a...

Updates previous studies, in which growth industries were examined in order to understand patterns of growth and identify ways to predict future growth industries. Evaluates the fastest growing industries of the late 1980s and early 1990s and analyzes the ways that economic, technological, and...

Explores the importance of several regimes of new product development activities using multiple statistical techniques on two different data sets collected in the USA and Canada over 12 years apart. The results were consistent across the statistical methods and across the data sets, but...

Little is known about the explanatory value of variables commonly used for international segmentation. Therefore there are only vague criteria for guiding the choice of variables for segmentation. Meets this need, using statistical significance in explaining variation in import demand among...

Examines the growth in the use of, and versatility of industrial robots worldwide and looks at the current situation in Taiwan, which is reported to have the highest annual growth rate of robots. With a shortage of manpower, Taiwan sees automation as its best alternative, particularly in the...