... 855
Chapter 36 . Bayesian Estimation in the Linear Model 867
Chapter 37 . OLS With Random Constraint 877
Chapter 38 . Stein Rule Estimators 8 83
Chapter 39 . Random Re gressors 891
39 .1. Strongest Assumption: ... Inequality 10 43
48.1. Web Resources about Income Inequality 10 43
48.2. Graphical Representations of Inequality 1044
48 .3. Quantitative Measures of Income Inequality 104...
... itself in differing origins. Unlike in the private indi-
vidual sector, or in trade, new entrepreneurial personalities in the industrial
sphere in China and Vietnam do not hail from the lower class, ... guidelines, laws and legal regu-
lations for this sector, and take care of the following: the safeguarding of its
rights and their respecting; obtaining credits; provision...
... Sandy Weill), ac-
quired Smith Barney in 1987 and Travelers Corp. in 1992–19 93,
and as Travelers Inc. acquired Shearson Lehman Brothers Inc. in
19 93, the property insurance business of Aetna in ... that particular part of the industry and the key players very
158 Mergers and Acquisitions in Banking and Finance
of the acquisitions appeared to be carried out in a targe...
... optic in type of optical
glass, in polishing compound and process, in washing and cleaning prior to coating, and in
optical coating, including that both the test optic and the meter -class optic ... Petawatt Class Laser Pulses
33
CR alumina polishing liquid, which is a suspension of alumina particles with nominal size
of 0.05 m. Washing using the slurry with its ext...
... attractive
74 Mergers and Acquisitions in Banking and Finance
35 .1
34
17.5
10.5
30 .2
30 .7
14.1
21.1
0
5
10
15
20
25
30
35
40
One Two Three Four or more
19 93
1996
Percentage of
consumers
Figure 3- 4. With ... Group combines
banking and insurance, albeit unevenly, in the Benelux countries. The
ING Group is the product of a banking-insurance merger that has since
acquired...
... to weaker internal disciplines in avoiding low net
present value projects in particular parts of the business and in avoiding
cross-subsidization between the constituent businesses in addition ... transparent,
and government ministries—notably the Ministry of Finance and the Min-
istry of International Trade and Industry—wielded extraordinary in u-
ence.
The good years of the...
... crystalline and amorphous states. In
the writing process, a small volume in the thin film is locally and rapidly heated to above
the melting point and successively quenched into the amorphous phase. In ... itself and remains in the equilibrium state, and thus inherits the
structure and volume at the melting state. Therefore, the volume has an increase V , and
Lase...
... Acoustic Wave and Levitated Microparticles
Waves in Fluids and Solids
262
Substituting Eqs. (2.2) and (2.4) in Eq. (2 .3) and discarding the time factor exp( )it
ω
− , one
obtains the scattered ... depending on the
microparticles size, are shown in Table 3. The operating conditions taken into account are the
same as in Table 2. According to numerical values listed in...