White papers and financial challenges

Financial Liberalization and Policy Challenges

Challenges in Financial Computing

One of the fastest growing areas of scienti c computing is in the nancial industry. Many of the most basic problems in nancial analysis are still unsolved, and are surprisingly resilient to the onslaught of legions of talented researchers from many diverse disciplines. In this article, we hope to give readers a sense of these challenges by describing a relatively simple problem that all investo...

Royal College white papers: assessment of training.

T he Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada (RCPSC) has written a series of white papers on a diverse group of topics. They were released last year, but the College now would like some feedback from its members. It is with interest (not much, though) that I read the white paper on assessment of competence. This should be the core of what the College does for physicians: assessment o...

China's Financial Reform: Achievements and Challenges

Investment Liberalization is a three-year BRIE project organized in collaboration with CPS (the Council of Policy and Strategy, Shanghai) and DIHS (the Dentsu Institute of Human Studies, Tokyo), and funded in part by the generous support of the United States-Japan Foundation.

Authorship for scientific papers: the new challenges.

The dissemination of the practice of collaborative authorship (coauthorship) in Brazil and in the international scientific community has been accompanied by an increasing occurrence of frauds, manipulations and other deviations in the assignment of responsibility for a scientific paper. This article discusses the criteria for authorship attribution, the reasons for the growing indices of coauth...