Bøger af Dr Bill Peters

This book introduces the history and new development as well as the criticism of all the psychological schools include Structuralism, Functionalism, Psychoanalysis, Behaviorism, Humanism, Gestalt, Existentialism and Cognitivism. As a complementary to the main part of this book, personality test and European IQ test are given in the appendices. It is worth reading for those who are interested in psychology and researching in the area of psychology

The Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) is a structured technique for dealing with complex decisions. Rather than prescribing a "correct" decision, the AHP helps decision-makers find one that best suits their goal and their understanding of the problem - it formalises a method for making decisions that people are already intuitively trying to apply mentally. This book introduces AHP, and a further development, which called Analytic Network Process (ANP). A case study is given to show how ANP can be applied, together with a short tutorial on a software tool, Superdecision, which can be used to implement the ANP.

This book spans several disciplines, bringing together elements of mathematics, computing, psychology, finance, and artificial intelligence. Using an agent-based approach, I have developed a comprehensive model which is used to model and predict financial contagion. The innovative feature of my approach may be the application of Sigmund Freud''s structural model of the psyche. By investigating the neurosis mechanism as it applies to participants in financial markets, I analyze, in detail, the destructive impact of the herding effect.

Portfolio selection is an important research topic in the field of finance, but typically, existing portfolio models cover a single investment period and are static, while real-world investors operate dynamically over multiple periods. So multi-period portfolio selection models have been studied widely in recent years. This book mainly discusses the efficient frontier of the mean-VaR model for multi-period portfolio selection, and the algorithm and model for multi-period portfolio selection including uncertainty. Its main contents are as follows: firstly, effective solutions are given for the mean-VaR model for multi-period portfolio selection, and the efficient frontier problem is discussed. We then introduce credibility safety standards-based multi-period portfolio selection and fuzzy entropy-based multi-period portfolio selection models. We also present an empirical study for the two types of model.

On November 12th, 2001, China entered into the WTO in the capacity of a developing country. This was an important step in implementing China''s fundamental policy of opening itself to the outside world, and has created excellent conditions for its further participation in international trade and economic globalization. But in recent years, a new trend has appeared in world trade: some developed countries have created a barrier to others entering their home markets for new trade by imposing a higher environmental quality standard than that of developing countries. They utilize a high environmental standard as an entry condition, in order to restrict imports, with the result that the traditional trade barrier has now been supplemented by a new environmental barrier - a "green trade barrier". Concerning the above issues, firstly, this book presents the background in which green trade barriers appeared in international trade, and then we analyze their basic characteristics and multi-faceted influences on China''s export trade. After all the analysis, we suggest some potential countermeasures on both the micro and the macro levels to overcome green trade barrier