The globally widespread economic crisis that burst in 2007 has been a central topic of recent papers. Economists and researchers have been pointing out that the crisis underpins the downfall of the efficient market hypothesis (EMH), as part of a search for the roots of the crisis. This...

Our age is called information age which shows the importance of any kind of data. Because of this one should protect their (digital) data to prevent unauthorized entities accessing them. Since the data being managed in a database can have a high value unauthorized entities may somehow find their...

Two main types of the packaging systems can be distinguished in the logistic supply chains, depending on which roads the packaging spreads according to their function and their role like a device or product. Today by means of their system-organization and continuous development, the companies...

Since the publication of the Bruntland Report (1987) the concept of sustainable development has been widely known, and increasingly becoming the core of all time media, political and scientific discussion. More and more say in connection with sustainable development that this goal can not be...

Virtual social worlds, such as Second Life, by gaining more and more popularity, have attracted the attention of the business media. The aim of the present article is to explore the relationship between the Second Life avatar (using the term of virtual identity) and shopping habits in Second...

Several methods are known for the purpose of capital allocation. There are some properties that allocation methods should satisfy. These are full allocation, core compatibility, riskless allocation and suitability for performance measurement (compatible with Return on Risk Adjusted Capital...

The self help groups were formed to provide micro credit facilities to rural poor women to engage them in economic activities. Present paper investigates the factors influencing the employment status of a selected group of self help group members. The same set of self help group members has been...

The article tries to find explanation for the question that although green products and services are more easily available than in the past and people are more and more informed on the environmental problems; however there are still consumers who do not show green behavior. The reason behind...

We shortly discuss the mathematical modeling and its problems of one of the structured credit derivatives, the synthetic CDOs. These financial products were among the favorites prior to the crisis, and there was a general view that the mathematical models caused or at least boosted it. We focus...

In this paperI develop a model for small and medium enterprises’ external financing. I concentrate on a situation where a firm offering trade credit to his customer applies for a credit at a bank. The effect of a defaulting customer on the borrowing capacity of the supplier has not yet been...