the consequences of these differences, and suggest potential strategies of reform of corporate governance. We argue that the legal approach is a more fruitful way to understand corporate governance and its reform than the conventional distinction between bank-centered and market-centered financial systems.

for querying and transformation, and opti-mizat,ion problems. 1 The motivation The topic of semistructured data (also called unstructured data) is relatively recent, and a tutorial on the topic may well be premature. It represents, if anything, the conver-gence of a number of lines of thinking about new ways

of others and depart from the standard model of the rational economic agent in other ways. If people display bounded rationality when it comes to maximizing utility, then their choices do not necessarily reflect their "true" preferences, and an exclusive reliance on choices to infer what people

Discovering the structure inherent in a set of patterns is a fundamental aim of statistical inference or learning. One fruitful approach is to build a parameterized stochastic generative model, independent draws from which are likely to produce the patterns. For all but the simplest generative

of coordination. Many different disciplines-including computer science, sociology, political science, management science, systems theory, economics, linguistics, and psychology-have all dealt, in one way or another, with fundamental questions about coordination. Furthermore, several previous writers have

I. How can we exploit the knowledge we have on the solution of instance I to compute a (approximate) solution of instance I ′ in an efficient way? This computation model is called reoptimization and is of practical interest in various circumstances. In this article we first discuss what kind

methods; we do this for several models. ii Acknowledgments I would like to thank my thesis advisor, Professor Sidney Coleman, for his assistance and encouragement. I am grateful to him for showing me that the best way to solve a difficult problem is often to not do the obvious. It has been a privilege

is not certain whether it will encounter a particular fruit or prey object at a particular moment, nor is the restaurant goer certain that her preferred chef will cook that night. To make the uncertainty of outcomes tractable was the main motive that led Blaise Pascal to develop probability theory around 1650

for managing approximations in engineering optimization suggests ways to decide when the fidelity, and thus the cost, of the approximations might be fruitfully increased or decreased in the course of the optimization iterations. The approach is quite general. We make no assumptions on the structure

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