Special issue: "Economic Performance and New Quantitative Tools"

Global Business and Economics Review 15(1) 2013

• Economic growth and risk - a critical review of the postwar Japanese economy
• Value-at-risk for the long and short trading position with the Pearson type-IV distribution
• The changing nature of consolidation in the US banking industry - 1980 to the present
• Macroeconomic policy formulation: functional finance versus sound finance
• ANS-based preprocessing of company performance indicators
• Training for older employees in Germany - opportunities for distance learning? An exploratory study
• Identifying stocks' characteristics before market crashes: the case of the Athens stock exchange
• Analysing the return distributions of Australian stocks: the CAPM, factor models and quantile regressions
• Immiserising growth and mobility of capital with and without land in Harris-Todaro model