The main objective of the article is to examine the challenges of EU Studies in the South Caucasus in accordance with in the process of European integration as exiting political and geopolitical strategies of the region can be considered as the platform and a kind or “need assessment” for the development and successful implementation of the EU Studies. A particular attention is paid to the obje...

This paper provides a foundation for evaluating recent changes in regulatory design in light of the increasingly competitive and dynamic environment of banking. Intrusive, control-oriented direct and indirect approaches to regulation have become very costly. Regulation that focuses on setting minimum requirements will become dominant. Supervision would then primarily aim at verifying compliance...

In many financial institutions, there is a well established practice of measuring the risk of their portfolios in terms of economic capital (cf., e.g. Dev, 2004). Measuring portfolio-wide economic capital, however, is only the first step towards active, portfolio-oriented risk management. For purposes like identification of concentrations, risk-sensitive pricing or portfolio optimization it is ...

Purpose Patient oriented clinical research, particularly randomized clinical trials, is a complex field. Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) educational institutions typically place less emphasis on research than what is typically seen in conventional university settings; consequently CAM practitioners are less prepared to pursue careers in clinical research than their conventional med...

state compensation to crime victims means paying money by the governmental institutions to victims or his/her families, when restitution by the offender and other financial sources is accessible. in the legal system of england, law of criminal damages includes all aspects of state compensation such as: conditions of eligibility related to victims, crimes, damages, perpetrators as well as proced...

Securities firms are the leading institutions that facilitate flow of funds by performing key services both in primary and secondary markets. The assessment efficiency these has become a contemporary major issue due to increasingly intense competition, globalization, innovation capital As part nature business environment for such firms, risk-taking behaviors play role their efficiency. In addit...