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Assuring SME's Sustainable Competitiveness in the Digital Era. A Labour Policy between Minimum Wage Guaranteed and ICT Skill Mismatch
No full textThe aim of this paper is to analyze the real impact of ICT (Information and Communications Technology) skills mismatch on SME’s (small and medium enterprises) sustainable competitiveness in the presence of a guaranteed minimum wage. As part of public policies—the minimum wage needs to maintain a balance between increasing employment and not being a burden for the companies, leading them to bankruptcies, especially in times of disruptive change, in which economies have to be more resilient. The rapid progress in information and communication technologies has dramatically redefined rising unemployment as a result of skills mismatch. This paper aims to understand, on the one hand, whether there is a match between the supply demand of ICT skills, and how increasingly powerful digital technologies affect the skills, jobs, and demand for human labor. On the other hand, it aims to understand whether increasing productivity and a fair minimum wage could be an integrated approach for stimulating SME’s in increasing sustainable competitiveness
On the valuation ofconstant barrier options under spectrally one-sided exponential L&evy models and Carr’s approximation for American puts.
No full textThis paper provides a general framework for pricing options with a constant barrier under spectrally one-sided exponential L&evy model, and uses it to implement ofCarr’s approximation for the value of the American put under this model. Simple analytic approximations for the exercise boundary and option value are obtained. c 2002 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reservedAmerican options; Perpetual approximation; Spectrally negative exponential L&evy process;
Conclusion
No full textAvram Alexandre. Conclusion. In: Dialogues d'histoire ancienne. Supplément n°15, 2016. Identité régionale, identités civiques autour des Détroits des Dardanelles et du Bosphore (Ve siècle av. J.-C. – IIe siècle apr. J.-C.) pp. 289-294
Conclusion
No full textAvram Alexandre. Conclusion. In: Dialogues d'histoire ancienne. Supplément n°15, 2016. Identité régionale, identités civiques autour des Détroits des Dardanelles et du Bosphore (Ve siècle av. J.-C. – IIe siècle apr. J.-C.) pp. 289-294
'In Glasgow but not quite of it’? Eastern European Jewish Immigrants in a Provincial Jewish Community from c.1890 to c.1945
No full textThis article makes use of autobiographies and oral interviews in order to explore the lifestyles of the first generation of immigrants within one particular provincial Jewish community – the Gorbals in Glasgow – between 1890 and 1945. The experience of this generation of immigrants was characterised by diversity to an extent that was not true of the second generation. Thus, the community cannot be described in terms of either ‘assimilation’ or ‘separation’. Instead, an alternative description has been coined: ‘variegated acculturation’ in order to encompass the complexity of the lives of the immigrants
Identity and identification of Trogulus banaticus (Opiliones: Trogulidae) : a neglected species in the Northern Balkans
No full textTrogulus banaticus Avram, 1971 is characterised and recorded as new for Slovenia. This species was previously mistaken for T. coriziformis C. L. Koch, 1839 and T. graecus Dahl, 1903 which were later rejected from the Slovenian fauna. T. banaticus is compared with the similar, and partly sympatric, T. tingiformis C. L. Koch, 1847 with which it has often been confused. A table of distinguishing characters for both species is provided, and the ecology of T. banaticus and its general distribution are discussed
SOME ARGUMENTS THAT JUSTIFY THE AUDIT TRINITY’S APPROACH IN THE CONTEXT OF CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
No full textThe purpose of this paper is to develop a synthesis of the main arguments that could justify the necessity of audit trinity’s approach (internal audit, external audit, audit committee) in assuring good corporate governance. The aim of the paper is also to synthesize relevant theoretical and empirical latest literature that argues the significance of audit functions as an important mechanism in the effective functioning of corporate governance system. From methodological point of view, the construction of this paper has adopted a normative approach, the research being primarily, based on a examination of relevant literature, with a focus on developments that have more or less implications over the progress of corporate governance issues, especially in these difficult economic context that requires urgently the adopting of effective solutions. By presenting on overview over the latest literature ad discussing the shifting demands with respect to the audit’s contribution to ensuring good corporate governance, the author of this paper hopes to stimulate further research and constructive debates in the field.Internal audit, external audit, audit committee, corporate governance, audit trinity
Some remarks on first passage of Lévy processes, the American put and pasting principles
No full textThe purpose of this article is to provide, with the help of a fluctuation identity, a generic link between a number of known identities for the first passage time and overshoot above/below a fixed level of a Lévy process and the solution of Gerber and Shiu [Astin Bull. 24 (1994) 195–220], Boyarchenko and Levendorskii [Working paper series EERS 98/02 (1998), Unpublished manuscript (1999), SIAM J. Control Optim. 40 (2002) 1663–1696], Chan [Original unpublished manuscript (2000)], Avram, Chan and Usabel [Stochastic Process. Appl. 100 (2002) 75–107], Mordecki [Finance Stoch. 6 (2002) 473–493], Asmussen, Avram and Pistorius [Stochastic Process. Appl. 109 (2004) 79–111] and Chesney and Jeanblanc [Appl. Math. Fin. 11 (2004) 207–225] to the American perpetual put optimal stopping problem. Furthermore, we make folklore precise and give necessary and sufficient conditions for smooth pasting to occur in the considered problem
Fathers high in psychopathy invest more in offspring who resemble them
No full textOver ancestral time, men had more paternity uncertainty than women. If the father and his offspring have similar facial features, the former is more confident of his paternity and he, therefore, tends to invest more resources in the child. In 158 dyads of adolescents (i.e., teenagers) and their fathers, we tested—using actor-partner interdependence modeling (APIM)—the relationship between facial resemblance and personality similarity on the one hand and paternal investment (i.e., emotional and financial) on the other hand. We also examined how important personality (i.e., emotionality, psychopathy, narcissism, and Machiavellianism) similarity is in predicting paternal investment controlling for facial resemblance. Both facial and personality resemblance were associated with paternal investment. We also found that personality similarity accounts for incrementally more variance in paternal investment over facial resemblance. Additionally, we found that psychopathy moderated the relationship between facial resemblance and paternal investment
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