Master's Thesis from the year 2004 in the subject Business economics - Didactics, Economic Pedagogy, grade: 1,3, European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder), 82 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: This study does not focus on the "powerhouses" of internationalisation but rather at the possibilities of an "average" university with up to now rather average numbers of foreign students and an average degree of overall internationalisation. The University of Bielefeld is taken as one example, of how internationalisation can be implemented, what the key processes of internationalisation are and which steps should be taken to foster internationalisation in the future. The first part of this study is having a look at what internationalisation of universities is and how the idea has developed historically. he paper then in the second part describes the main stakeholders and their role in the internationalisation of higher education. In part three and four the key drivers of internationalisation for universities in general and German institutions of higher education in particular are identified. Therefore this paper outlines first the general global trends in higher education in part three and than focuses on specific German and European developments in part four. Special attention will be drawn on the legal changes in the German system of higher education and the EU-harmonisation process. In Chapter five the competitive forces like new market entrants and substitutes will be looked at. The sixth part will describe the specific motivation for internationalisation at the UoB and sketch the environmental situation of the university like the history of the institution, geographical aspects, its profile etc. It then focuses on strategy formulated so far. Parts seven and eight examine the internationalisation efforts on the side of resource allocation and international programmes. The last chapter tries to summarize the strengths and weaknesses of the inte

Copulas provide us with a tool for constructing multivariate distributions with arbitrary marginal distributions and a wide range of dependence structures. The aim of this book is to describe what the practitioner, or scientist, needs to know about copulas. Although the emphasis is on financial applications, the general theory is relevant for any multivariate setting. The outline of the book is as follows. Chapter 2 is a discussion of multivariate distribution functions that are useful for financial data. In chapter 3 we proceed with a discussion of commonly used dependence measures, and we highlight deficiencies of the correlation coefficient. We start chapter 4 by describing the properties a general function must satisfy in order to be a copula, and goes on by describing the properties of the most common copulas. In chapter 5 we discuss the problem of estimating the parameters in a copula, and in chapter 6 we review the recent goodness-of-fit procedures suggested in the literature. Chapter 7 is a short review of some of the main applications of copulas in relation to credit risk models.

This is a college textbook for the introductory statistics course primarily for business and economics students. The content includes descriptive statistics, probability, hypothesis testing, regression analysis, time series analysis, and statistical process control. The book incorporates many real-world examples and demonstrates statistical analysis using Microsoft Excel 2007.

Diploma Thesis from the year 2007 in the subject Business economics - Didactics, Economic Pedagogy, grade: 1,0, Berlin School of Economics, 96 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: The purpose of the present thesis is to examine if and to which extent cultures converge in an international business environment and if intercultural competence has a bearing on it. Therefore, theoretical and practical insights in the subject of culture, its implicit and explicit differences, as well as its measurements will be provided. Due to the fact that communication - as a major cultural attribute - is the most obvious level on which cultural differences are recognized, insights in the topic of cross-cultural and intercultural communication will be given. A thorough discussion of the concept of culture and communication is beyond the scope of this paper, but in what follows, an adequate overview of recognized and well-known researchers' theories and findings will be provided. Besides giving theoretical background knowledge, it will be examined whether the internationally defined soft skills of intercultural competence can be seen as an approach towards a universal interculture, likewise a universal communication. The topic of the present thesis will be illustrated by a case study, as well as researched and evaluated by a field study conducted at one of the most culturally diverse organization - the United Nations. Findings should only expose tendencies to confirm or disprove previous research findings in the field of cross-cultural comparative research and intercultural communication. It is not intended to present new empirical findings.

The major focus of this book is on the educational challenges and triumphs in Washington, DC. We examine education in Washington, DC because it is vital to know the conditions under which the residents of the most powerful city in the world are being trained in the academic arena, based on sound empirical evidence.

The State of Working America, prepared biennially since 1988 by the Economic Policy Institute, includes a wide variety of data on family incomes, wages, taxes, unemployment, wealth, and poverty-data that enable the authors to closely examine the effect of the economy on the living standards of the American people. This edition, like the previous ones, exposes and analyzes the most recent and critical trends in the country.

Praise for previous editions of The State of Working America

"The State of Working America remains unrivaled as the most-trusted source for a comprehensive understanding of how working Americans and their families are faring in today's economy." Robert B. Reich

"It is the inequality of wealth, argue the authors, rather than new technology (as some would have it), that is responsible for the failure of America's workplace to keep pace with the country's economic growth. The State of Working America is a well-written, soundly argued, and important reference book." Library Journal

"If you want to know what happened to the economic well-being of the average American in the past decade or so, this is the book for you. It should be required reading for Americans of all political persuasions." Richard Freeman, Harvard University

"A truly comprehensive and useful book that provides a reality check on loose statements about U.S. labor markets. It should be cheered by all Americans who earn their living from work." William Wolman, former chief economist, CNBC's Business Week

"The State of Working America provides very valuable factual and analytic material on the economic conditions of American workers. It is the very best source of information on this important subject." Ray Marshall, University of Texas, former U.S. Secretary of Labor

"An indispensable work . . . on family income, wages, taxes, employment, and the distribution of wealth." Simon Head, New York Review of Books

"No matter what political camp you're in, this is the single most valuable book I know of about the state of America, period. It is the most referenced, most influential resource book of its kind." Jeff Madrick, author of The End of Affluence

"This book is the single best yardstick for measuring whether or not our economic policies are doing enough to ensure that our economy can, once again, grow for everybody." Richard A. Gephardt

"The best place to review the latest developments in changes in the distribution of income and wealth." Lester Thurow

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The State of Working America, prepared biennially since 1988 by the Economic Policy Institute, includes a wide variety of data on family incomes, wages, taxes, unemployment, wealth, and poverty-data that enable the authors to closely examine the effect of the economy on the living standards of the American people. This edition, like the previous ones, exposes and analyzes the most recent and critical trends in the country.

Praise for previous editions of The State of Working America

"The State of Working America remains unrivaled as the most-trusted source for a comprehensive understanding of how working Americans and their families are faring in today's economy." Robert B. Reich

"It is the inequality of wealth, argue the authors, rather than new technology (as some would have it), that is responsible for the failure of America's workplace to keep pace with the country's economic growth. The State of Working America is a well-written, soundly argued, and important reference book." Library Journal

"If you want to know what happened to the economic well-being of the average American in the past decade or so, this is the book for you. It should be required reading for Americans of all political persuasions." Richard Freeman, Harvard University

"A truly comprehensive and useful book that provides a reality check on loose statements about U.S. labor markets. It should be cheered by all Americans who earn their living from work." William Wolman, former chief economist, CNBC's Business Week

"The State of Working America provides very valuable factual and analytic material on the economic conditions of American workers. It is the very best source of information on this important subject." Ray Marshall, University of Texas, former U.S. Secretary of Labor

"An indispensable work . . . on family income, wages, taxes, employment, and the distribution of wealth." Simon Head, New York Review of Books

"No matter what political camp you're in, this is the single most valuable book I know of about the state of America, period. It is the most referenced, most influential resource book of its kind." Jeff Madrick, author of The End of Affluence

"This book is the single best yardstick for measuring whether or not our economic policies are doing enough to ensure that our economy can, once again, grow for everybody." Richard A. Gephardt

"The best place to review the latest developments in changes in the distribution of income and wealth." Lester Thurow

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The business world creates a variety of problematic challenges. "Exploring: Using 2 x 2 Matrices to Analyze Situations" demonstrates ways to target salient issues quickly, which in turn will seize the attention of senior executives. Ruth Williams, program director for a large multi-national corporation, explores techniques to show how to resolve difficult circumstances and provides an alternative to traditional reports generally used for explaining complex situations.

"Exploring" gives the average businessperson tools they need to learn how to assess situations "before" problems arise, bringing together a number of 2 x 2 matrix explorations, which all represent real situations. Implementing a 2 x 2 square, divided into four equal quadrants, Williams has formulated a system that is able to analyze a complex problem by breaking it into smaller units. These particulars will teach you how to observe and analyze in order to be prepared for actual times of crisis. You'll also learn how to assimilate information quickly to help you identify the key drivers of the situation.

With her extensive experience in assessing difficult situations by establishing the cause of the problems and identifying possible solutions, Williams offers a valuable resource for any business with "Exploring."

As a sequel to the South India: Human Development Report and the West and Central India Human Development Report this report contains a compilation of economic and social data based on a primary survey of four states in Northern India: Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, and erstwhile Uttar Pradesh.

A blueprint for understanding and interpreting essential economic information

From the publishers of The Economist, the renowned international business weekly, this practical resource offers a detailed road map of all the major—and many of the less well-known—economic indicators in existence today. Explaining exactly what they are, why they are significant, how reliable they are, and—perhaps, most importantly—how to interpret them, it covers over 100 indicators, including:

• GDP
• Population, employment, unemployment
• Public expenditure
• Personal and disposable income
• Fixed investments
• Imports and exports
• Nominal exchange rates
• Money supply and money stock
• Wages, earnings, and labor costs.

Clearly organized, accurate, and accessible, The Economist Guide to Economic Indicators is an indispensible reference for understanding key economic data from around the world.

Success in today's global business environment requires a thorough knowledge of important economic figures and a firm grasp of their meaning. Now, The Economist Guide to Economic Indicators provides you with a detailed road map of all the major—and many of the less well-known—indicators that exist worldwide.

Economic indicators provide invaluable insights into how different economies and different markets are performing, enabling practitioners to adjust their investment strategies in order to achieve the best return. However, in order to make the right decisions, you must know how to interpret the relevant indicators. The Economist Guide to Economic Indicators enables you to read—and use—indicators accurately and effectively.

Covering approximately 100 indicators—including GDP, population, exchange rates, disposable income, public expenditure, and bond yields—this practical resource explains exactly what they are, why they are significant, where and when they're published, and how reliable they are. Perhaps most importantly, the Guide shows you how to interpret these indicators correctly, providing straightforward guidelines through which you can distill such vital information as start and end points for changes, inflational influences, time frames, and yardsticks for judging future trends.

Organized to highlight linkages and aid interpretation, and incorporating data for the fifteen largest industrial countries, this concise, accessible guide is essential for anyone eager to be brought up to speed on these key economic measurements.

Das Buch liefert eine anwendungsorientierte Einfuhrung in oekonometrische Methoden. Anhand einfacher, aber origineller Anwendungen aus verschiedenen Gebieten wie Wirtschaftsgeschichte, Humankapitaltheorie oder Biologie werden die Methoden der klassischen OEkonometrie erklart und veranschaulicht. Auf diese Art und Weise werden nicht nur methodische Fertigkeiten vermittelt, sondern Studierende zum eigenstandigen empirischen Arbeiten motiviert. Fachkenntnisse werden nicht vorausgesetzt. Die 2. Auflage wurde um ein zusatzliches Kapitel erganzt.

This title is part of the Pearson Modern Classics series. Pearson Modern Classics are acclaimed titles at a value price. Please visit www.pearsonhighered.com/math-classics-series for a complete list of titles. For courses in Multivariate Statistics, Marketing Research, Intermediate Business Statistics, Statistics in Education, and graduate-level courses in Experimental Design and Statistics. Appropriate for experimental scientists in a variety of disciplines, this market-leading text offers a readable introduction to the statistical analysis of multivariate observations. Its primary goal is to impart the knowledge necessary to make proper interpretations and select appropriate techniques for analyzing multivariate data. Ideal for a junior/senior or graduate level course that explores the statistical methods for describing and analyzing multivariate data, the text assumes two or more statistics courses as a prerequisite.

The growth rate of national income has fluctuated widely in the United States since 1929. In this volume, Edward F. Denison uses the growth accounting methodology he pioneered and refined in earlier studies to track changes in the trend of output and its determinants. At every step he systematically distinguishes changes in the economy's ability to produce as measured by his series on potential national income from changes in the ratio of actual output to potential output. Using data for earlier years as a backdrop, Denison focuses on the dramatic decline in the growth of potential national income that started in 1974 and was further accentuated beginning in 1980, and on the pronounced decline from business cycle to business cycle in the average ratio of actual to potential output, a slide under way since 1969. The decline in growth rates has been especially pronounced in national income per person employed and other productivity measures as growth of total output has slowed despite a sharp acceleration in growth of employment and total hours at work. Denison organizes his discussion around eight table that divide 1929-82 into three long periods (the last, 1973-82) and seven shorter periods (the most recent, 1973-79 and 1979-82). These tables provide estimates of the sources of growth for eight output measures in each period. Denison stresses that the 1973-82 period of slow growth in unfinished. He observes no improvement in the productivity trend, only a weak cyclical recovery from a 1982 low. Sources-of-growth tables isolate the contributions made to growth between "input" and "output per unit of input." Even so, it is not possible to quantify separately the contribution of all determinants, and Denison evaluates qualitatively the effects of other developments on the productivity slowdown.

Die mit dem vorliegenden Band 1 eroeffnete Reihe Anwendung programmierbarer Taschenrechner bietet dem Leser eine breite Palette von AufgabensteIlungen aus Gebieten der Natur- und Wirtschaftswissenschaften, fur die Programme zur numerischen Loesung erarbeitet wurden. Dieser Band fuhrt den Leser in das Programmieren von Taschenrechnern ein, die nach dem Prinzip der Umgekehrten Polnischen Notation (UPN -Technik) arbeiten, und bringt Beispiele aus den Bereichen der angewandten Mathematik, der Finanzmathematik, der Statistik und der Informatik. Dabei wird besonders Gewicht auf eine rationelle und leicht uberschaubare Programmierung als Hilfs- mittel zur Problemloesung gelegt. Eine in dieser Weise als Handwerkszeug verstandene Programmie- rung wird nicht zum Selbstzweck ausarten, sondern den Leser befahigen, auf Grund der muhelosen Reproduzierbarkeit der Loesung alle wunschenswerten Variantenrechnungen einer fundierten Ergebnisaussage nutzbar zu machen. Das Buch wendet sich insbesondere an Ingenieure in der Industrie und den verschiedenen Verwal- tungsbereichen, die sowohl mit mathematisch-technischen wie auch mit mathematisch-betriebs- wirtschaftlichen AufgabensteIlungen konfrontiert werden. Studenten an Universitaten und Fach- hochschulen erhalten eine grundliche Einfuhrung in die unterschiedlichen Funktionsmerkmale der Rechensysteme und erlernen das methodische Vorgehen und die praktische Rechnungsdurch- fuhrung mit dem programmierbaren Taschenrechner. Dem Leser wird ein Nachschlagfundus mit Beispielen fur programmierte Aufgabenloesungen aus einem breiten Anwendungsspektrum in die Hand gegeben. Die hierbei gegebenen Programmier- hinweise haben den Zweck, die Ausarbeitung spezieller, auf die eigene Problemstellung zuge- schnittene Programme zu erleichtern. Zu den AufgabensteIlungen werden die mathematischen Grundlagen nur soweit dargestellt, wie es zur Programmierung des Loes, ungsalgorithmus erforderlich ist. Zum tieferen Eindringen in die jeweilige Thematik wird auf die vorhandene Fachliteratur verwiesen.

Dieses Lehrbuch zeichnet sich durch eine verbale und leicht verstandliche Beschreibung der in den Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften verwendeten statistischen Verfahren aus. Zahlreiche praxisrelevante Beispiele illustrieren und betonen die immer starker werdende Bedeutung der Datenanalyse fur den Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftler. Die anwendungsbezogene Darstellung gliedert sich in drei Teile, der beschreibenden und der schliessenden Statistik sowie der Wahrscheinlichkeitsrechnung als Bindeglied. Das Buch deckt den Stoff eines einjahrigen Kurses ab und ist damit besonders fur die Bachelorausbildung in Statistik geeignet. Die vorliegende dritte Auflage ist eine korrigierte und in einigen Teilen uberarbeitete Neufassung der zweiten Auflage. So wird der wesentliche Lernstoff eines jeden Kapitels anfangs motiviert und am Ende noch einmal ubersichtlich zusammengefasst.

Das Schreiben einer quantitativ-empirischen Graduierungsarbeit ist wie das Kochen in einer Mensa. Es sollte schnell gehen, das Essen schmecken, gesund und kostengunstig sein. Um das zu erreichen, mussen Rezepte eingehalten werden. Ohne Leidenschaft, aber professionell. Dieses essential gibt Ihnen solche Rezepte an die Hand, die Sie nur nachkochen mussen. Wie ist eine solche Arbeit aufgebaut? Wie formuliere ich Hypothesen und wie uberprufe ich diese korrekt? Es wird der Umgang mit der kostenfreien Statistiksoftware "R" erklart. Die benoetigte Syntax finden Sie im essential. Sie mussen sie lediglich kopieren.

Il libro nasce dall esigenza di coniugare esperienze e capacita procedurali diverse provenienti da vari ambiti disciplinari, quali l informatica e la statistica, al fine di ricercare ed individuare percorsi e relazioni legate alla conoscenza. In un contesto di business, la conoscenza scoperta puo avere un valore strategico per le aziende perche consente di aumentare i profitti, riducendo i costi oppure aumentando le entrate con il conseguente aumento del ROI. Il volume e rivolto sia a studenti universitari e ricercatori, che a professionisti e manager aziendali che vogliano approfondire gli aspetti algoritmici delle tecniche di Data mining: lo studio degli algoritmi e delle principali tecniche e essenziale per conoscere meglio come la tecnologia possa essere applicata ai diversi tipi di dati e quindi anche diverse problematiche di business. Il testo pone volutamente l attenzione sugli aspetti procedurali e di calcolo della metodologia, differenziandosi dagli altri testi in italiano che inquadrano puramente il contesto statistico. Il materiale esposto puo essere utile a quanti vogliano completare la loro formazione scientifica in questa disciplina. "

Probability and Statistics have been widely used in various fields of science, including economics. Like advanced calculus and linear algebra, probability and statistics are indispensable mathematical tools in economics. Statistical inference in economics, namely econometric analysis, plays a crucial methodological role in modern economics, particularly in empirical studies in economics.This textbook covers probability theory and statistical theory in a coherent framework that will be useful in graduate studies in economics, statistics and related fields. As a most important feature, this textbook emphasizes intuition, explanations and applications of probability and statistics from an economic perspective.