Reversal of financial market integration in Europe during the global financial crisis requires tools to measure and monitor banking sector stability. Banking sectors in Europe, especially in Central and Eastern countries, are characterized by a significant share of foreign capital and height level of concentration. This phenomenon may enhance the financial institutions to compete and probably t...

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This study examines the similarities and d@erences of outsourcing strategies of medium-sized manufacturing firms in the U.S. and Japan. Analyses of the questionnaire data, obtained from 234 Japanese firms and 94 American firms showed that: (I) Japanese Jirms tended to use more process-oriented R&D outsourcing, while American firms tended to depend on result-oriented R&D outsourcing; (2) Japanes...

Comparative analysis on five technopoleis shows that there has been a major change in terms of roles of the central government and the local governments. The recent technopoleis are initiated by the local governments while the earlier ones are initiated by the central government. Also operation by the 3 sector is getting popular. This shift is well accepted by the central government. The govern...

A major issue in the current economic debate is related to the striking difference between Europe, Japan and US concerning the level and evolution of unemployment. This paper explores the micro determinants of these observed stylized facts. In a first part, a theoretical framework is presented allowing to address this comparative analysis. The starting point is the definition of different micro...

Past research revealed issues with artificial event data used for comparative analysis of process mining algorithms. The aim of this research is to design, implement and validate a framework for producing artificial event logs which should increase discriminatory power of artificial event logs when evaluating process discovery techniques.