Abstract: Purpose – Several major infrastructure projects in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) have been delivered by the build-operate-transfer (BOT) model since the 1960s. Although the benefits of using BOT have been reported abundantly in the contemporary literature, some...

The study of Artificial Neural Networks derives from first trials to translate in mathematical models the principles of biological “processing”. An Artificial Neural Network deals with generating, in the fastest times, an implicit and predictive model of the evolution of a system. In...

Chapter 1. Introducing Economic Capital -- Part 1. Modelling Credit-Risk Economic Capital -- Chapter 2. Constructing a Practical Model -- Chapter 3. Finding Model Parameters -- Chapter 4. Implementing The Model -- Part 2. Loan Pricing -- Chapter 5. Approximating Economic Capital -- Chapter 6....