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The alternative investment market (AIM) has seen rapid growth over
its 19 years, and has emerged as the market of choice for smaller,
newer companies, both in the UK and abroad. However, it has often
had a volatile reputation among investors, who have commonly
perceived stock in the AIM as more risky than the main market. In
this book, a group of leading financial analysts conduct an
extensive empirical study to compare the relative volatility of two
UK equity markets run by the London Stock Exchange, over a ten year
period. They analyse the comparative risks involved in the
alternative investment market, the market of growing companies, and
the 'main market', the market for more established companies. This
book analyses the volatility of the alternative investment market,
using a variety of techniques and approaches. It compares the
volatility of stocks in the markets, exploring variables such as
size, industry, age and market switches. Using refined methods to
focus on the difference between the markets, the authors provide a
convincing study to challenge the idea that the alternative
investment market is higher risk than the main market.
This is the first major treatment of the effects of increased transparency on financial markets: an important and highly controversial issue for both traders and regulators. Focussing on three main themes - market transparency, the consolidation-fragmentation of trading systems, and the scope of regulation (i.e. which markets, and which traders within those markets, should be subject to regulation), the book highlights the importance of these issues to all markets throughout the world. The authors draws on research from eight UK-based investment exchanges, Deutsche Borse in Frankfurt, and documentary evidence from the US markets and their regulators.
This is the first major treatment of the effects of increased
transparency on financial markets: an important and highly
controversial issue for both traders and regulators. Focussing on
three main themes - market transparency, the
consolidation-fragmentation of trading systems, and the scope of
regulation (i.e. which markets, and which traders within those
markets, should be subject to regulation), the book highlights the
importance of these issues to all markets throughout the world. The
book draws on research from eight UK based investment exchanges,
Deutsche Borse in Frankfurt and documentary evidence from the US
markets and their regulators enabling the identification and
documentation of the current situation and consideration of what
fresh regulatory approaches are required for this new and fast
evolving situation.
The offices of GMD-FOKUS in Berlin provided the venue for a meeting
in December 1987 which signalled the birth of the ARGOSI project.
The proposal gradually took shape over the following months, and
after merging with another project proposal in the field of
standardization of computer graphics, finally received funding from
the Esprit programme in March 1989. The project stemmed from a
recognition of the importance of computer graphics a'i an ena bling
technology in many application areas, and of the need to build
bridges between computer graphics and telecommunications. The
overall aims of the pro ject were twofold: * Advance the state of
the art in the transfer of graphical information across
international networks. * Improve quality and applicability of
standards in this area. This book records the key results of the
project and the contributions the project has made to
standardization related to the transfer of graphical information
across open networks. Contributions have included a demonstration
of a prototype appli cation - a road transport information system
running over public international of a new data networks - shown at
the Esprit '91 exhibition, the standardization FT AM document type
allowing structured access to graphical information (represented
according to the Computer Graphics Metafile (CGM) standard) and
major contributions to a mapping of the X-Windows protocol onto an
OSI stack. The project also organized two international workshops.
the first on Graphics and Communications, and the second on
Distributed Window Systems.
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Graphics and Communications - Proceedings of an International Workshop Breuberg, FRG, October 15-17, 1990 (Hardcover, 1991 ed.)
David B. Arnold, Robert A. Day, David A. Duce, Christian Fuhrhop, Julian R. Gallop, …
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This volume is a record of the Workshop on Graphics and
Communications organized within ESPRIT II Project 2463 ARGOSI
(Applications Related Graphics and OSI Standards Integration). The
workshop was included in the Eurographics workshop programme for
1990. The ARGOSI project essentially arose from the observation
that international standards in the graphics and networking areas
were generally being developed in isolation and that insufficient
attention was being paid to the needs of applications whose
requirements spanned several standards. The importance of the
integration of graphics and networking has been growing over recent
years, with the growth of interest in multi-media systems to
support cooperative working, and the use of computer graphics
techniques in the visualization of the results of scientific and
engineering computations. The latter frequently involve high-speed
links between workstations and supercomputers. The presentations in
this volume cover a broad range of activities from a classification
scheme for graphics and networking to interconnection experiments
with broadband networks. Three topics were selected for detailed
discussion in working groups: - Improvements to the computer
graphics metafile standard, - The role of application profiles in
graphics data exchange, - The impact of multi-media. The volume
contains a record of the discussions and the recommendations from
the working groups, subsequently endorsed by the workshop.
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Stephen C Sutcliffe
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