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During the last decades the globalization of financial markets, the intensifying competition as well as the rapid economic, social and technological changes, have led to an increasing uncertainty and instability in the financial and business environments. This new context has given a new rise to the role of economics and finance for the operation of firms and organizations. The contents of this volume cover a wide range of topics, including among others stock market applications, banking management, corporate performance, as well as macroeconomic issues. (Imprint: Nova)

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Table of Contents:
Preface

Abstract

1. A Note on the Diachronic Behaviour of the OECD Forecasts for Greece;pp. 1-13
(Dikaios Tserkezos, George Xanthos and Eva Pitikaki,Dept. of Economics,University of Crete,Rethymno,Greece and others))

2. A Study on the Long-Run Benefits of Diversification in the Stock Markets of Greece, the UK and the US;pp. 15-25
(Konstantinos Gillas, Maria-Despina Pagalou, Elli-Heine Sifaki and Eleni Tsafaraki,Dept. of Economics,University of Crete,Rethymno,Greece and others)

3. Application of Feed-Forward Neural Networks Smoothing Transition Autoregressive Models in Stock Returns Forecasting;pp. 27-47
(Eleftherios Giovanis,Dept. of Economics,University of London,Egham,UK))

4. Surveying Stock Market Forecasting Techniques - Part I: Conventional Methods;pp. 49-103
(George S. Atsalakis and Kimon P. Valavanis,Dept. of Productiobn Engineering and Management Technical University of Crete,Chania and others)

5. A Note on Why the Generalized Method of Moments (GMM) Estimator is Getting More Popular in Banking Studies;pp. 105-109
(Kassim Hussein,Graduate School,Institute of Finance Management,Dar es Salaam,Tanzania))

6. Assessing the Macroeconomic Competitiveness of European Countries Using Multicriteria Analysis;pp. 111-120
(Kyriaki Kosmidou and Constantin Zopounidis,Dept. of Economics,Aristotle University of Thessaloniki,Greece and others)

7. A Topological Network Analysis of Greek Firms;pp. 121-134
(Kydros Dimitrios, Notopoulos Panagiotis and Kaparis Anastasios,TEI of Serres,School of Economics and Adminstration,Greece))

8. An Executive Perspective to Category Management: The Case of the Greek Grocery Retailers;pp. 135-150
(Ozgur Erdiller, Georgios Papamanousakis, George Baourakis, Constantin Zopounidis and Dimitrios Alexakis,Dept. of Business Economics and Management,Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of
Chania,Greece and others)

9. Fuzzy Performance Measures of M/M/S Queueing Systems Using Fuzzy Estimators;pp. 151-163
(A. Gkougkouli, D.S. Sfiris, G. Botzoris, and B.K. Papadopoulos,Dept. of Civil Engineering,Democritus University of Thrace Xanthi,Greece))

10. Stochastic Inventory System with Replaceable Items;pp. 165-179
(B. Sivakumar and N. Anbazhagan,School of Mathematics,Madurai Kamaraj University,India and others)

11. The adoption of costing systems by Greek Healthcare Organizations;pp. 181-196
(Christos Tsitsakis,TEI of Chalkida Dept. of Accounting,Psahna Evias,Greece))

12. What Drives the Market Exchange of Special Investment Shares within New Generation Co-operatives?;pp. 197-210
(Nikos Kalogeras, Gert van Dijk, George Baourakis, Panagiota Sergaki, Prodromos Kalaitzis, and Ramy Bou-Jawdeh,Marketing-Finance Research Lab Dept. of Marketing and Supply Chain,Maastricht University,Netherlands and others)

Index