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The Economics of Credit Rating Agencies explores the economic and regulatory issues and frictions associated with credit rating agencies in the aftermath of the financial crisis.

The Roles and Impacts of Technical Standards on Economic Growth and Implications for Innovation Policy assesses the economic nature, roles, and impacts of technical standards over the entire technology life cycle and the required public policies to effectively provide this critical infrastructure.

Angel Investing provides systematic and comprehensive review of the large body of research literature on angel investors.

Transitioning from private to public status is a watershed event in the life of any firm. For most firms and managers, the process of conducting an Initial Public Offering (IPO) is something they will only go through once.

Data Visualization and Health Econometrics focuses on the principles and practice of data visualization and statistical graphics and how these can enhance empirical analysis of health care costs and outcomes, especially for skewed and heavy-tailed distributions.

Start-up Actions and Outcomes: What Entrepreneurs Do to Reach Profitability provides a description of the firm creation process based on five harmonized data sets from four countries that track the business creation process. The second objective is to explore the role of start-up activities on the outcomes for these nascent ventures.

Privatization, State Capitalism, and State Ownership of Business in the 21st Century provides an overview of economic and political developments relating to privatization, state capitalism, and state ownership of business, and will survey the extensive recent research examining privatization and state ownership.

Corporate Entrepreneurship 2.0 organizes and reviews the significant research work that has been done in the corporate entrepreneurship literature over the years and suggests potential future directions for researchers.

Since the middle of the twentieth century, business and legal scholars have tried to explain why corporate boards of directors function as they do. Understanding Boards of Directors examines why research on corporate governance has been slow and uneven, and where that research should turn next to be valuable to practitioners.

While there have been a number of excellent literature reviews in recent years published in various academic outlets, Gender and Entrepreneurship: An Annotated Bibliography is more complete than other efforts and places each contribution to the literature into one of 16 descriptive categories.

Against the backdrop of an ever-changing financial landscape, "venture capital" has taken on a new uncertainty and complexity. In this review, the authors suggest that venture capital should not exclusively - or even primarily - be defined in terms of providing risk capital (and advise) to founder-entrepreneurs.

Spatial and Temporal Variability of Solar Energy Summarizes and analyzes recent research to understand, characterize, and model solar resource variability. This research shows that understanding solar energy variability requires a definition of the temporal and spatial context for which variability is assessed.

Focuses on some of the key modern mathematical tools that are used for the derivation of concentration inequalities, on their links to information theory, and on their various applications to communications and coding. In addition to being a survey, this book also includes various new recent results derived by the authors.

Provides the reader with stated preference data collection methods, discrete choice models, and statistical analysis tools that can be used to forecast demand and assess welfare impacts for new or modified products or services in real markets, and summarise the conditions under which the reliability of these methods has been demonstrated.

Presents a possible research agenda for analytics and control of a deep decarbonized electric grid with pervasive data, interactive consumers, and power electronics interfaces. It focuses on new lines of investigation that are driven by new technological, economical, and policy factors.

Demonstrates that emotions play a role in predicting departures from expected utility maximization for making insurance purchasing decisions over time. The authors highlight the conceptual issues and alternative theories of behaviour about repeat insurance purchasing over time.

Provides an introduction to multi-party computation for practitioners interested in building privacy-preserving applications and researchers who want to work in the area. The goal is to enable readers to understand what is possible today, and what may be possible in the future.

Provides an interdisciplinary bridge between power systems engineering and theoretical computer science by relating the practical and challenging problems in electric power systems with the modern theoretical tools from computer science. The proper understanding of these hard problems can advance the frontiers of both communities.

Presents three variants of the neoclassical investment model and characterizes the firm's optimal investment policy, equity value, and the desirable properties of accrual accounting rules in each setting.

Reviews and extends some important results in random matrix theory in the specific context of real random Wishart matrices. To overcome the complexity of the subject matter, the authors use a lecture note style to make the material accessible to a wide audience. This results in a comprehensive and self-contained introduction.

Provides the starting point to the literature that every engineer new to machine learning needs. This book offers a basic and compact reference that describes key ideas and principles in simple terms and within a unified treatment, encompassing recent developments and pointers to the literature for further study.

Investigates smart electric vehicle charging. This book focuses jointly on the quality of service for EV users and the stability and reliability of the power grid. It lays out a solution framework that addresses many of the key problems arising from both the lower and upper levels.

Focuses on data gathered from a large-scale, systematic survey of Stanford alumni, faculty, and selected staff in 2011 to assess the university's economic impact based on its involvement in entrepreneurship.

This monograph provides a connected overview of the academic literature. The authors develop a theoretical framework that not only provides insight into the different sources of entrepreneurial equity finance but also guides the volume's structure.

This monograph brings together a collection of 14 value sensitive design methods. These methods-along with the heuristics and examples discussed here-go a good distance toward providing tools for engaging substantively with human values in the technical design process.

This monograph reviews the integration of satellite and terrestrial networks, focusing on Multi Path TCP (MPTCP) and Information Centric Networking (ICN). It also extensively reviews content-based networking.

Examines the various privacy breaches that may arise due to the use of LBSs, and considers and compares the mechanisms and metrics that have been proposed to protect user privacy, focusing in particular on a comparison between probabilistic spatial obfuscation techniques.

This monograph provides an overview of recent developments in main-memory database systems.

By building robotic systems with soft materials, we can realize systems that are safer, cheaper, and more adaptable than the level that conventional rigid-material robots can achieve. This volume introduces the fundamental aspects of this vibrant research topic from history, modelling, control, and system integration.