This study makes a comparison between the most popular strategies of Portfolio Insurance based on Monte Carlo simulation. This work aims to define the best strategy at comparing different strategies and provide a contribution to solving some divergences in literature. Most of the previous...

The current literature (Cherrier 2002; Elgin 1998; Etzioni 2004; Zavestovski 2002) states voluntary simplifiers as a group of consumers and considers that the differentiation among individuals who simplify their consumption (also considering downshifters and holistic simplifiers) concerns only with...

Within the academic realm, doctoral research plays a vital role in the advancement of knowledge. In areas ranging from strategy and international business to marketing, finance and operations management, the contributions in this volume represent the very best in doctoral research in the field...