This study focuses on the development of a new methodology for the selection of the best solution for municipal solid wastes disposal, after evaluating all the important factors, including economical, social and environmental ...

In this paper, after summarizing and reviewing the methods of computing damages for wrongful death or injury in the law and economics literature, we present the way in which damages should be compensated for according to ...

This book covers what the authors call the “full range of major forecasting methods.” These comprise of the traditional time series methods of decomposition, exponential smoothing, simple and multiple linear regression and ...

Abstract The objective of this chapter is to examine the ARCH family of volatility models and its use in risk analysis and measurement. An overview of unconditional and conditional volatility models is provided. The former ...

This paper we backtest the FHS VaR model on three types of portfolios invested over a period of two years. The first set of backtests consists of LIFFE financial futures and options contracts traded on LIFFE. In the second ...

Filtered historical simulation provides the general framework to our backtests of portfolios of derivative securities held by a large sample of financial institutions. We allow for stochastic volatility and exchange rates. ...

A crucial problem for planners dealing with the management of water resources is to choose among the available alternative scenarios. In the presented methodology the result is a combination of the data of all the important ...

The paper uses data envelopment analysis (DEA-CCR model) to evaluate the tertiary-level educational system mechanism, relating a set of inputs to some outputs, in particular, income and employment. The analysis concerns ...

Δικαστικές αποφάσεις ενίοτε, προ της αδυναμίας του δικάζοντος δικαστού να "τάμει" τον λόγον της αληθείας κι να αποδώσει μετά βεβαιότητας δικαιοσύνη κατά το ορθόν Δίκαιον, αναφέρουν ότι οι διάδικοι ανεξαρτήτως αντικειμένου ...

This paper describes and applies a nonparametric model for pricing multivariate contingent claims. Multivariate contingent claims are contracts whose payoffs depend on the future prices of more than one underlying variable. ...