This paper examines the predictive power of the U.S. term structure over return volatility in emerging stock markets. Decomposing the term structure of U.S. Treasury yields into two components, the expectations factor and ...

This paper addresses the multiple level warehouse layout problem, which involves assigning items to cells and levels with the objective of minimizing transportation costs. A monthly demand and an inventory requirement are ...

The article describes the current tools of management accounting, the subject of management, the use of relevant information systems in the enterprise, formation of the product range, and pricing of products sold in a ...

This article examines the competency approach to human resources management (HRM) in organizations through a review of literature and theories on the competency perspective. Building on previous theory and some empirical ...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to understand the relationship between two business orientations, namely, entrepreneurial orientation and market orientation, and innovativeness taking into account the moderating ...

This paper shows that time-varying oil return volatility predicts regime transitions across a majority of global stock sectors, particularly for durables, financials, industrials, oil & gas, telecommunications and utilities. ...

This paper examines the information content of the U.S. term structure of interest rates on the market for real estate investment trusts (REITs) by decomposing the term structure of U.S. Treasury yields into two components ...

This paper investigates the effect of the BSE scare on beef consumption due to the intense media coverage. Using monthly data, a beef demand model for January 1995-February 1997 period is estimated for Izmir Province. Beef ...

Let Omega be a bounded, simply connected domain in C with 0 is an element of Omega and aOmega analytic. Let S(Omega) denote the class of functions F(z) which are analytic and univalent in Omega with F(0) = 0 and F'(0) = ...

Let S? be a bounded, simply connected domain in C with 0 is an element of Omega and partial derivative Omega analytic. Let S(Omega) denote the class of functions F(z) which are analytic and univalent in Omega with F(0) = ...