Delivering cutting-edge coverage that includes the latest thinking and practices from the field, QUALITY AND PERFORMANCE EXCELLENCE, 8e presents the basic principles and tools associated with quality and performance excellence.
For one-semester business statistics courses Statistics is essential for all business majors, and Business Statistics: A First Course helps students see the role statistics will play in their own careers by providing examples drawn from all functional areas of business.
Narrows the gap between theory and practice Business Statistics focuses on relevant statistical methods, empowering business students to make good, data-driven decisions.
Taking a practical approach, this updated and classroom-tested textbook prepares students to create effective forecasting models for business and economics.
Taking a practical approach, this updated and classroom-tested textbook prepares students to create effective forecasting models for business and economics.
Introduces first-year social science undergraduates to the practical aspects of simple regression analysis, without adopting an esoteric, mathematical approach.
Introduces first-year social science undergraduates to the practical aspects of simple regression analysis, without adopting an esoteric, mathematical approach.
Nanak Kakwani and Hyun Hwa Son make use of social welfare functions to derive indicators of development relevant to specific social objectives, such as poverty- and inequality-reduction.
This timely reader of seminal papers published by Palgrave on behalf of Comparative Economic Studies, examines how and why foreign banks enter emerging markets and the positive benefits they bring to the host countries.
This book focuses on extending the models and theories (from a mathematical/statistical point of view) which were introduced in the first volume to a more technical level.
This book provides an introductory treatment of time series econometrics, a subject that is of key importance to both students and practitioners of economics.
In today's increasingly globalized environment, many economic fundamentals need to be reconsidered in order to regain stability in the global marketplace.
Securitization regulation remains, in the eyes of investors, banks, businesses, bureaucrats and politicians, one of the remaining unsolved puzzles of the post-Global Financial Crisis landscape.
This exciting new addition to Palgrave Studies in Islamic Banking, Finance, and Economics argues that social capital can facilitate rule-compliance and co-operation in the sharing of risk in financial and economic activities.
Barrier options are a class of highly path-dependent exotic options which present particular challenges to practitioners in all areas of the financial industry.
For the past 30 years international monetary economists have believed that exchange rate models cannot outperform the random walk in out-of-sample forecasting as a result of the 1983 paper written by Richard Meese and Kenneth Rogoff.
As power and gas markets are becoming more and more mature and globally competitive, the importance of reaching maximum potential economic efficiency is fundamental in all the sectors of the value chain, from investments selection to asset optimization, trading and sales.
Since the 2008 financial crisis, researchers and policy makers have been looking to empirical data to distil both what happened and how a similar event can be avoided in the future.
Creating a Eurasian Union offers a detailed analysis of the economies of the Customs Union of Russia, Belarus, and Kazakhstan and the proposed Eurasian Union.
