Throughout the last 100 years instructional theory has developed many different educational models and learning scenarios. What schools are still missing is not only an educationally sound and complete categorization scheme, but also the application of these models to the new forms and types of virtual learning environments. Traditionally these educational scenarios lack detailed and finely gra...

Much has happened during the last five years on the Finnish mobile communications market. Recent developments include: the introduction of mobile number portability (MNP) in July 2004, the emergence of mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs), price war and hyper-competition followed by consolidation, late deployment of 3G networks, however, with early upgrade to high-speed downlink packet acce...

Karl Polanyi wrote The Great Transformation in 1944 which analysed the double movement Europe experienced, from a situation where the market was heavily regulated and controlled in the eighteenth century to a virtually unregulated market in the nineteenth century, and the huge transformation in which the market was once more brought under control as a reaction to the poverty, unemployment and i...

this paper examines the impact of 2005 presidential election of iran on the tehran stock exchange volatility as a political shock. it uses garch family (fiegarch, egarch, and garch) and markov regime switching (mrs) models as the analytical frameworks for the main the stock daily prices index. our findings confirm statistical validity of arima – fiegarch-x and ar(1) mrs as appropriate specifica...

the conventional theory of adverse selection is not supported by most of the empirical works. these studies conclude that low-risk individuals demand more insurance services than high-risks. they refer to this situation as advantageous selection theory. this theory states that loss ratio of insureds may be lower than the population loss ratio while the conventional theory of adverse selection c...

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This study examines the relationship between above-market price (or overpricing), along with various housing attributes, and time on the market (TOM). The study covers nearly 4,000 transactions of marketed domestic units of different living tenures, flat sizes, price ranges, and other physical characteristics in the Hong Kong residential property market. The results show that factors such as th...

This paper examines the determinants of stock returns in a small open economy using an APT framework. The analysis is conducted for the Swiss stock market which has the particularity of including a large proportion of firms that are exposed to foreign economic conditions. Both a statistical and a macroeconomic implementation of the model are performed for the period 1986-2002 with monthly retur...

We describe a dynamic model of financial intermediation in which fundamental characteristics of the economy imply a unique equilibrium path of bank and financial market lending. Yet we also show that economies whose fundamental characteristics have converged may continue to have very different financial structures. Because setting up financial markets is costly in our model, economies that emph...