Contains ten papers, including: An Empirical Examination of The Intraday Return Volatility Process; The Valuation of New Product Introduction Under Uncertain Competition: A Real Option Approach; Earnings, Dividends, and Equity Value of Multinational Firms; Debt Covenant Violation and the Value Relevance of Accounting Information; and more.

Due to the ability to handle specific characteristics of economics and finance forecasting problems like e.g. non-linear relationships, behavioral changes, or knowledge-based domain segmentation, we have recently witnessed a phenomenal growth of the application of computational intelligence methodologies in this field.In this volume, Chen and Wang collected not just works on traditional ...

This volume summarizes five innovative, practical approaches that public sector organizations use to better manage for results, increase organizational performance and improve accountability to stakeholders.

Presents a comprehensive account of developments in economic forecasting. This book also provides an account of the leading approaches and modeling strategies that are routinely employed.

Economic Forecasting provides a comprehensive overview of macroeconomic forecasts.

There are several reasons why it has become important to rethink economic policy. Out of the European perspective it is the new currency, the enlargement towards Central and Eastern European countries, the sluggish growth and the end of productivity convergence towards the USA and the insufficient creation of employment. From the transatlantic perspective increasing differences in the economic ..

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Clive W. J. Granger's major essays in spectral analysis, seasonality, nonlinearity, methodology, forecasting, causality, integration and cointegration, and long memory.

This text provides a theoretical approach to examine the interplay of economic, political and security factors in APEC's evolution. The essays draw on the examples of the OECD and EU to explore APEC's future prospects for fostering economic liberalization in the Asia Pacific and across the globe.

As Korea undertakes a series of recovery measures, the authors consider the importance of the ongoing restructuring efforts in the corporate and banking sectors, the development of the new economy and the potential economic advantages to be derived from reunification with the North.

Lucid account of the process of constructing and evaluating an empirical model.

Concerned with the investigation of the contemporary issues in general economics, and growth economics and in the formulation of optimal growth programs. This book addresses the crucial issues of different branches in economics, including growth and development economics, economic planning, welfare economics, environmental economics, and others.

Contains thirteen papers that deal with the issue of Financial Analysis, Planning and Forecasting, which are classified into two major groups - Risk Analysis and Financial Evaluation Models. In addition to these two groups, this title contains a paper using survey approach to banking operations.

This work demonstrates the applications of Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) in exchange rate determination as well as more practical applications of salary comparison and the cost of living across borders.

This text looks at the mathematical techniques and models used in the forecasting of financial markets.

These are econometrician Clive W. J. Granger's major essays in causality, integration, cointegration, and long memory.

These are econometrician Clive W. J. Granger's major essays in spectral analysis, seasonality, nonlinearity, methodology, and forecasting.

Forecasting in the presence of structural breaks and model uncertainty are active areas of research with implications for practical problems in forecasting. This book addresses forecasting variables from both Macroeconomics and Finance, and considers various methods of dealing with model instability and model uncertainty when forming forecasts.

For some decades, we have been steadily creating an extreme 'time-crunch economy' that has affected jobs, portfolios, businesses and lives. But the 'time-crunch economy' is turning into 'the leisure economy' and it will mean wrenching adjustments for our lives and institutions.