This paper describes the survey of Skills, Technology, and Management Practices (STAMP), which emphasizes the use of behaviourally specific questions in order to improve the quality of job measures. Such measures yield better understanding of the absolute levels of job demands compared to items...

This paper examines how gender equality influences difference in cognitive skills between genders. For closer examination of Guiso et al. (2008), restricting the sample to immigrant allows us to reduce the possibility of reverse causality. Key findings obtained through regression estimation are:...

This book presents 20 peer-reviewed chapters on current aspects of derivatives markets and derivative pricing. The contributions, written by leading researchers in the field as well as experienced authors from the financial industry, present the state of the art in: "Modeling counterparty credit...

Jede adaptive Analyse von domänenspezifischen Daten erfordert generische, weiterentwickelte und anpassbare Methoden. Eine mathematische Darstellung und Modellierung von domänenspezifischen Anforderungen hilft dabei, dieses Ziel zu erreichen. In der Analyse von Mitarbeiterfähigkeiten und in...

Preface: Quantification and its discontents -- Introduction: Political calculations -- Finding the money: public accounting and political arithmetic after 1688 -- The great project of the equivalent: a story of the number 398,0851/2 -- The balance of trade battle and the party politics of...

We look at the effect of capital rules on a banking system that is connected through correlated credit exposures and interbank lending. The rules, which combine individual bank characteristics and interconnectivity measures of interbank lending, are to minimize a measure of system-wide losses....