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Non-technological Innovations for Sustainable Transport
by Alexandra HyardExamining non-technological innovations for environmentally and socially-friendly transport, this book provides the reader with a better understanding of this often overlooked topic. It features four illustrative case studies, and presents a concise review of the core transport modes (road, rail and marine transport). Transport companies are compelled to innovate due to economic and environmental pressures, and the aim of these innovations is to improve fuel efficiency and ultimately to transform energy use in the transport sector. Whilst many of these innovations are technological, they can conversely be non-technological in nature. This book is intended for students and researchers interested in economics, environmental economics and economics of innovation. It also offers a useful resource to industry professionals interested in ecology and transport.
Noncognitive Skills and Their Influencing Factors for Children: Empirical Evidence from China
by Jinyan Zhou"Non-cognitive skills" cover any skills that are not cognitive, such as conscientiousness, perseverance, and teamwork, which are critically important in education. However, for many years, “non-cognitive skills" have always been ignored in human capital theory. The book, using a multidisciplinary approach, tries to uncover the noncognitive components of human capital, so as to answer the question “what is the skill that should be invested". The author expands the connotations of human capital by exploring the value of noncognitive skills and their production patterns, constructing a measurement framework and a set of tools to measure noncognitive skills. She especially carries out an empirical survey which covers primary and secondary school students from seven provinces of China's East, Middle, and West areas. With the data collected, she analyzes Chinese students' noncognitive development and further identifies the critical factors that may impact their noncognitive skills by applying the Bayesian Model Average approach. The book will be a theoretical contribution to education economics. Researchers interested in education in China, children’s development and policymakers in the field of education will find this book helpful and resourceful.
Noncomplainer-Management im BtB-Marketing
by Fabio-Yannick LaschetIn diesem Open Access-Buch untersucht Dr. Fabio-Yannick Laschet unter Berücksichtigung der konstitutiven Besonderheiten des Business-to-Business-Marketings spezifische Determinanten des Noncomplainer-Verhaltens sowie ausgewählte Ansatzpunkte zur Bindung von Noncomplainern. Der Wandel, in dem sich aktuell Business-to-Business-Märkte befinden, stellt Anbieter angesichts sich verändernder Kundenerwartungen, aber auch gesellschaftlicher Entwicklungen, vor neue Herausforderungen. Eine Möglichkeit, um diesen entgegnen zu können, stellt ein ausgeprägtes Wissen über aktuelle und potenzielle Kunden dar - und damit auch Kundeninformationen. Vor diesem Hintergrund können Noncomplainer, die ihre Unzufriedenheit nicht unmittelbar an den Anbieter artikulieren, als eine wertvolle Informationsquelle für notwendige Innovations- und Verbesserungspotenziale des Leistungsportfolios gesehen werden. Anhand der in dieser Arbeit entwickelten Neuausrichtung des Business-to-Business-Beschwerdemanagements - dem sogenannten "Ambidexterity-Complaint-Management" - zeigt Dr. Fabio-Yannick Laschet, wie die Erreichung psychografischer und ökonomischer Marketingzielgrößen in der betrieblichen Praxis obgleich der Noncomplainer-Herausforderung gesichert werden kann.
Noncompliant: A Lone Whistleblower Exposes the Giants of Wall Street
by Carmen SegarraA first-hand account of the oversight of the big banks in the wake of the financial crisis, from the Federal Reserve examiner who refused to be silencedIn 2011, Carmen Segarra took a job as at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York supervising for Goldman Sachs. It was an opportunity, she believed, to monitor the big bank's behavior in order to avoid another financial crisis.Segarra was shocked to discover, however, the full extent of the relationship between Goldman and the Fed. She began making secret recordings that later became the basis of a This American Life episode that exposed the Fed's ineffectiveness in holding banks accountable.In Noncompliant, Segarra chronicles her experience blowing open the doors on the relationship between the big banks and the government bodies set up to regulate them.As we mark the tenth anniversary of the 2008 financial crisis, Noncompliant shows us how little has changed, and offers an urgent call for real reforms.
Nondestructive Measurement in Food and Agro-products
by Xiaobo Zou Jiewen ZhaoThis book is composed of 8 chapters, each focusing on a major non-destructive technique, including optical, acoustic and biological methods. The content of each chapter is based on the author's studies and current research developments. The book is aimed at graduate students, senior undergraduate students, and researchers in academia and industry. It will be particularly interesting for researchers in the fields of food, agricultural engineering, biotechnology and applied mathematics. It will also serve as a useful reference source for people working in the design and manufacture of non-destructive devices for food and agricultural products.
None Of My Business
by P. J. O'RourkeAfter decades covering war and disaster, bestselling author and acclaimed satirist P. J. O'Rourke takes on his scariest subjects yet--business, investment, finance, and the political chicanery behind them. <p><p> Want to get rich overnight for free in 3 easy steps with no risk? Then don't buy this book. (Actually, if you believe there's a book that can do that, you shouldn't buy any books because you probably can't read.) P.J.'s approach to business, investment, and finance is different. He takes the risks for you in his chapter "How I Learned Economics by Watching People Try to Kill Each Other." He proposes "A Way to Raise Taxes That We'll All Love"--a 200% tax on celebrities. He offers a brief history of economic transitions before exploring the world of high tech innovation with a chapter on "Unnovations," which asks, "The Internet--whose idea was it to put all the idiots on earth in touch with each other?" He misunderstands bitcoin, which seems "like a weird scam invented by strange geeks with weaponized slide rules in the high school Evil Math Club." He closes with a fanciful short story about the morning that P.J. wakes up and finds that all the world's goods and services are free! This is P.J. at his finest, a book not to be missed.
None of My Business: P. J. Explains Money, Banking, Debt, Equity, Assets, Liabilities, And Why He's Not Rich And Neither Are You
by P.J. O'RourkeThe #1 New York Times-bestselling author takes on subjects from banking to bitcoin: &“Another winner from an A-list humorist.&”―Booklist Sharp-witted satirist and author of Parliament of Whores P. J. O&’Rourke takes on his scariest subjects yet—business, investment, finance, and the political chicanery behind them. Want to get rich overnight for free in 3 easy steps with no risk? Then don&’t buy this book. (Actually, if you believe there&’s a book that can do that, you shouldn&’t buy any books because you probably can&’t read.) P.J. O&’Rourke&’s approach to business, investment, and finance is different. He takes the risks for you in his chapter &“How I Learned Economics by Watching People Try to Kill Each Other.&” He proposes &“A Way to Raise Taxes That We&’ll All Love&”—a 200% tax on celebrities. He offers a brief history of economic transitions before exploring the world of high tech innovation with a chapter on &“Unnovations,&” which asks, &“The Internet—whose idea was it to put all the idiots on earth in touch with each other?&” He misunderstands bitcoin, which seems &“like a weird scam invented by strange geeks with weaponized slide rules in the high school Evil Math Club.&” And finally, he offers a fanciful short story about the morning that P.J. wakes up and finds that all the world&’s goods and services are free! &“The funniest writer in America.&”―TheWall Street Journal
None of Us Is as Good as All of Us: How McDonald's Prospers by Embracing Inclusion and Diversity
by Patricia Sowell Harris<p>An inside account of how McDonald's turns diversity into success <p>Everyone knows McDonald's, one of the most recognizable brand names in the world. But few know the extent to which McDonald's continued and ongoing success is due to the company's internal philosophy of inclusion and diversity. One of the biggest employers in the world, McDonald's staff is one of the world's most racially, culturally, and religiously diverse. <p>In None of Us Is As Good As All of Us, McDonald's Global Chief Diversity Officer, Patricia Sowell Harris, offers the first inside look at the company's philosophy of inclusion and diversity through interviews with more than 60 key employees and leaders. These accounts, of franchisees, suppliers, and employees, reveal how McDonald's embraces all races, creeds, and cultures to create unity and business achievement.</p>
None of Us is As Good As All of Us: How McDonald's Prospers by Embracing Inclusion and Diversit
by Patricia Sowell HarrisAn inside account of how McDonald's turns diversity into success Everyone knows McDonald's, one of the most recognizable brand names in the world. <P><P>But few know the extent to which McDonald's continued and ongoing success is due to the company's internal philosophy of inclusion and diversity. One of the biggest employers in the world, McDonald's staff is one of the world's most racially, culturally, and religiously diverse. In None of Us Is As Good As All of Us, McDonald's Global Chief Diversity Officer, Patricia Sowell Harris, offers the first inside look at the company's philosophy of inclusion and diversity through interviews with more than 60 key employees and leaders. These accounts, of franchisees, suppliers, and employees, reveal how McDonald's embraces all races, creeds, and cultures to create unity and business achievement. * Written by Patricia Sowell Harris, McDonald's global chief diversity officer * Serves as a template for any business that wants to embrace wider diversity and use it to prosper * With a Foreword by Jim Skinner, McDonald's CEO since 2004 * A first look at the inner workings of McDonald's impressive diversity and inclusion philosophy For any business leader who wants to embrace diversity and encourage team unity, None of Us Is As Good As All of Us offers inspiration and guidance.
Nonfinancial Defined Contribution Pension Schemes in a Changing Pension World
by David Robalino Robert Holzmann Edward PalmerNonfinancial Defined Contribution (NDC) schemes are now in their teens. The new pension concept was born in the early 1990s, implemented from the mid-1990s in Italy, Latvia, Poland and Sweden, legislated most recently in Norway and Egypt and serves as inspiration for other reform countries. This innovative unfunded individual account scheme created high hopes at a time when the world seemed to have been locked into a stalemate between piecemeal reforms of ailing traditional defined benefit schemes and introducing pre-funded financial account schemes. The experiences and conceptual issues of NDC in its childhood were reviewed in a prior anthology (Holzmann and Palmer, 2006). This new anthology serves to review its adolescence and with the aim of contributing to a successful adulthood. To this end the book offers a deep and comprehensive review of the experience of countries where NDC schemes have been in place for a decade or more, takes stock of the discussions of the place of NDCs in the world of pension reform, and addresses in detail important issues related to implementation and design, such as the of the NDC story, making transparent the legacy costs, financial accounting, balancing, creation of a reserve fund, gender, and longevity. The book also contains analyses of the pros and cons of NDC contra FDC and a typical paygo DB scheme in two Latin American countries. The key policy conclusions include: (i) NDC schemes work well (as documented by the experience of Italy, Latvia, Poland and Sweden during the crisis) but there is room to make them work even better; (ii) Go for an immediate transition to the new scheme to avoid future problems; (iii) Identify the legacy costs and their explicit financing during the transition as they will hit you otherwise soon; (iv) Adopt an explicit stabilizing mechanism to guarantee solvency; (v) Establish a reserve fund to guarantee liquidity; (vi) Elaborate an explicit mechanism to share the systemic longevity risk; and, last but not least; (vii) Address the gender implications of NDC with deeper analysis and open political discourse.
Nonfinancial Defined Contribution Pension Schemes in a Changing Pension World: Volume 2 Gender, Politics, and Financial Stability
by David Robalino Robert Holzmann Edward PalmerNonfinancial Defined Contribution (NDC) schemes are now in their teens. The new pension concept was born in the early 1990s, implemented from the mid-1990s in Italy, Latvia, Poland and Sweden, legislated most recently in Norway and Egypt and serves as inspiration for other reform countries. This innovative unfunded individual account scheme created high hopes at a time when the world seemed to have been locked into a stalemate between piecemeal reforms of ailing traditional defined benefit schemes and introducing pre-funded financial account schemes. The experiences and conceptual issues of NDC in its childhood were reviewed in a prior anthology (Holzmann and Palmer, 2006). This new anthology serves to review its adolescence and with the aim of contributing to a successful adulthood. To this end the book offers a deep and comprehensive review of the experience of countries where NDC schemes have been in place for a decade or more, takes stock of the discussions of the place of NDCs in the world of pension reform, and addresses in detail important issues related to implementation and design, such as the of the NDC story, making transparent the legacy costs, financial accounting, balancing, creation of a reserve fund, gender, and longevity. The book also contains analyses of the pros and cons of NDC contra FDC and a typical paygo DB scheme in two Latin American countries. The key policy conclusions include: (i) NDC schemes work well (as documented by the experience of Italy, Latvia, Poland and Sweden during the crisis) but there is room to make them work even better; (ii) Go for an immediate transition to the new scheme to avoid future problems; (iii) Identify the legacy costs and their explicit financing during the transition as they will hit you otherwise soon; (iv) Adopt an explicit stabilizing mechanism to guarantee solvency; (v) Establish a reserve fund to guarantee liquidity; (vi) Elaborate an explicit mechanism to share the systemic longevity risk; and, last but not least; (vii) Address the gender implications of NDC with deeper analysis and open political discourse.
Nongovernmental Organizations in Enviromental Struggles: Politics and the Making of Moral Capital in the Philippines
by Raymond L. BryantWhy are nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) so successful in today's world? How do they empower themselves? This insightful book provides important new perspectives on the strategic thinking of NGOs, the way they identify themselves, and how they behave. Raymond L. Bryant develops a novel theoretical perspective around the concept of moral capital and assesses that concept through in-depth case studies of NGOs in the Philippines. The book's focus is on perceptions of NGOs as moral and altruistic and how such perceptions can translate into social power. Bryant examines the ambiguous qualities of NGO strategizing, the ways in which the quest for moral capital is bedeviled by the need to compromise with political and economic elites, and the possibilities for NGOs to achieve political goals as moral leaders.
Nonlegal Careers for Lawyers
by Gary A. Munneke Ellen Wayne William D. HensleeGreat opportunities exist for law students and practicing lawyers outside the traditional practice of law. This important resource shows you when and how to choose a nonlegal career; the specialized skills legal training provides; how to plan and conduct a job search; and provides details on careers in business and industry, government and public service, associations and institutions, and entrepreneurial ventures. A resource section provides surveys and listings of nonlegal careers in several categories, and a listing of publishers and suggested readings on nonlegal careers.
Nonlinear Economic Dynamics and Financial Modelling
by Cars Hommes Roberto Dieci Xue-Zhong HeThis book reflects the state of the art on nonlinear economic dynamics, financial market modelling and quantitative finance. It contains eighteen papers with topics ranging from disequilibrium macroeconomics, monetary dynamics, monopoly, financial market and limit order market models with boundedly rational heterogeneous agents to estimation, time series modelling and empirical analysis and from risk management of interest-rate products, futures price volatility and American option pricing with stochastic volatility to evaluation of risk and derivatives of electricity market. The book illustrates some of the most recent research tools in these areas and will be of interest to economists working in economic dynamics and financial market modelling, to mathematicians who are interested in applying complexity theory to economics and finance and to market practitioners and researchers in quantitative finance interested in limit order, futures and electricity market modelling, derivative pricing and risk management.
Nonlinear Financial Econometrics: Forecasting Models, Computational and Bayesian Models
by Greg N. Gregoriou Razvan PascalauThis book investigates several competing forecasting models for interest rates, financial returns, and realized volatility, addresses the usefulness of nonlinear models for hedging purposes, and proposes new computational techniques to estimate financial processes.
Nonlinear Financial Econometrics: Markov Switching Models, Persistence and Nonlinear Cointegration
by Greg N. Gregoriou Razvan PascalauThis book proposes new methods to value equity and model the Markowitz efficient frontier using Markov switching models and provide new evidence and solutions to capture the persistence observed in stock returns across developed and emerging markets.
Nonlinear Investing: A Quantamental Approach
by Lingjie MaThis book focuses on nonlinear investing with a quantamental approach. Pricing relationships in financial markets are often nonlinear, which raises serious questions for portfolio management: How can we characterize nonlinear patterns in asset pricing? Why do such nonlinear patterns occur and in what contexts? How can we know whether such relationships will persist in the future? And how much is the value added by a nonlinear over a linear model? These questions cannot be answered by piecing together fundamental prospects based on personal experience and preference, which can be biased, or by torturing the data to make it confess whatever we want (particularly big data, which allows more freedom for data mining). Rather, nonlinear investing should rely on both fundamental insights and quantitative analysis: the former ensures that similar nonlinear patterns will occur in the future and the latter validates the nonlinear pattern with historical data. In this way, quant marries fundamental: a quantamental approach! The book provides a systematic guide to conducting nonlinear investing through quantamental analysis. The author demonstrates how nonlinear investment strategies, achieving both depth and breadth, add significant value to portfolio performance for different asset classes. The primary audience for this book is senior professional investors and quant/fundamental investment shops who look for new ideas to enhance their existing products or develop new products. The book will also be helpful to finance faculty and graduate students who are interested in frontier industry practices.
Nonlinear Optimization Applications Using the GAMS Technology
by Neculai AndreiHere is a collection of nonlinear optimization applications from the real world, expressed in the General Algebraic Modeling System (GAMS). The concepts are presented so that the reader can quickly modify and update them to represent real-world situations.
Nonlinear Optimization: Methods and Applications (International Series in Operations Research & Management Science #282)
by Carl-Louis Sandblom H. A. EiseltThis book provides a comprehensive introduction to nonlinear programming, featuring a broad range of applications and solution methods in the field of continuous optimization. It begins with a summary of classical results on unconstrained optimization, followed by a wealth of applications from a diverse mix of fields, e.g. location analysis, traffic planning, and water quality management, to name but a few. In turn, the book presents a formal description of optimality conditions, followed by an in-depth discussion of the main solution techniques. Each method is formally described, and then fully solved using a numerical example.
Nonlinear Option Pricing (Chapman and Hall/CRC Financial Mathematics Series)
by Pierre Henry-Labordere Julien GuyonNew Tools to Solve Your Option Pricing ProblemsFor nonlinear PDEs encountered in quantitative finance, advanced probabilistic methods are needed to address dimensionality issues. Written by two leaders in quantitative research-including Risk magazine's 2013 Quant of the Year-Nonlinear Option Pricing compares various numerical methods for solving hi
Nonlinear Programming Techniques for Equilibria (EURO Advanced Tutorials on Operational Research)
by Giancarlo Bigi Marco Castellani Massimo Pappalardo Mauro PassacantandoThis book considers a range of problems in operations research, which are formulated through various mathematical models such as complementarity, variational inequalities, multiobjective optimization, fixed point problems, noncooperative games and inverse optimization. Moreover, the book subsumes all these models under a common structure that allows them to be formulated in a unique format: the Ky Fan inequality. It subsequently focuses on this unifying equilibrium format, providing a comprehensive overview of the main theoretical results and solution algorithms, together with a wealth of applications and numerical examples. Particular emphasis is placed on the role of nonlinear optimization techniques – e.g. convex optimization, nonsmooth calculus, proximal point and descent algorithms – as valuable tools for analyzing and solving Ky Fan inequalities.
Nonlinear: Navigating Design with Curiosity and Conviction (Simplicity: Design, Technology, Business, Life)
by Kevin G. BethuneFrom the acclaimed designer and bestselling author of Reimagining Design, a nonlinear approach to navigating design&’s nuances in pursuit of meaningful innovation.In Nonlinear, Kevin Bethune shows us that we can reject trodden paths of digital or physical product creation by taking advantage of a nonlinear approach. To unlock meaningful innovation that breeds new and novel outcomes, he writes, teams need to embark on a journey into the proverbial forest of ambiguity, the result of a rapidly converging, dynamic, and exponentially changing landscape. The journey is less about getting it right or wrong, and more about using the information we have at our disposal to understand our choices and unlock new learning. Nonlinear begins by taking the reader through Bethune&’s professional zigs and zags. The author explains that while his interdisciplinary leaps were rare at the time he took them, these varied experiences unlocked perspectives about design and innovation that uniquely prepared him for our present moment and for the future. He then showcases the role of quantitative information to strategically frame and set boundary conditions for our creative exploration, and he highlights the role of qualitative insights to provide the substance necessary to begin crafting solutions that address unmet needs. The book also identifies accelerants (or flywheels) that will help readers as they reflect on their journey through the forest of ambiguity, with a specific emphasis on diversity, a key theme for Bethune, a Black man who has navigated new horizons. Readers will enjoy having the chance to customize the author&’s perspectives and make them their own at both an individual and a team level.
Nonlinearities in Economics: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Economic Dynamics, Growth and Cycles (Dynamic Modeling and Econometrics in Economics and Finance #29)
by Ruedi Stoop Alexander N. Pisarchik Giuseppe OrlandoThis interdisciplinary book argues that the economy has an underlying non-linear structure and that business cycles are endogenous, which allows a greater explanatory power with respect to the traditional assumption that dynamics are stochastic and shocks are exogenous. The first part of this work is formal-methodological and provides the mathematical background needed for the remainder, while the second part presents the view that signal processing involves construction and deconstruction of information and that the efficacy of this process can be measured. The third part focuses on economics and provides the related background and literature on economic dynamics and the fourth part is devoted to new perspectives in understanding nonlinearities in economic dynamics: growth and cycles. By pursuing this approach, the book seeks to (1) determine whether, and if so where, common features exist, (2) discover some hidden features of economic dynamics, and (3) highlight specific indicators of structural changes in time series. Accordingly, it is a must read for everyone interested in a better understanding of economic dynamics, business cycles, econometrics and complex systems, as well as non-linear dynamics and chaos theory.
Nonlinearity, Complexity and Randomness in Economics: Towards Algorithmic Foundations for Economics (Surveys of Recent Research in Economics #9)
by Stefano Zambelli Donald A.R. GeorgeNonlinearity, Complexity and Randomness in Economics presents a variety of papers by leading economists, scientists, and philosophers who focus on different aspects of nonlinearity, complexity and randomness, and their implications for economics. A theme of the book is that economics should be based on algorithmic, computable mathematical foundations. Features an interdisciplinary collection of papers by economists, scientists, and philosophers Presents new approaches to macroeconomic modelling, agent-based modelling, financial markets, and emergent complexity Reveals how economics today must be based on algorithmic, computable mathematical foundations
Nonmarket Strategic Management
by Hans Van Kranenburg Cosmina Lelia VoineaStrategic management has traditionally concerned itself with delivering objectives based on an assessment of resources and the market environment. However, there are many actors considered ‘outside’ the firm that inevitably shape the dynamics within the market. Nonmarket strategies entail social, political, and legal arrangements that reinforce or enable market strategies, providing a comprehensive approach to improving performance and gaining a competitive advantage. This book introduces nonmarket strategic management within these contexts. Divided into two parts, the first part offers theories and managerial support for coping with the complex business realities surrounded by social, political and legal spheres; the second part presents examples of the challenges firms in the nonmarket environment. These examples show how firms can strategically manage and work with social, political and regulatory stakeholders to achieve their goals. Written by two leading scholars in the area, this book is essential reading for business students, managers and leaders.