Study Abroad 2006-2007 contains some 2,900 entries concerning post-secondary education and training in all academic and professional fields in countries throughout the world. Key features include information on: Study opportunities and financial assistance available to students wishing to study in a foreign country; National systems of higher education; Open and distance learning (ODL) opportunities; Validation of foreign qualifications; How to search for quality institutions of higher education including warnings about bogus institutions. This is a trilingual edition: French/English/Spanish.

La gestión financiera de una empresa en la actualidad debe apoyarse tanto en unos sólidos conocimientos teóricos, como en herramientas que faciliten la toma de decisiones de forma ágil y eficiente. Por ello, el dominio de hojas de cálculo es una prioridad para cualquier profesional en el campo de las finanzas; este libro resulta de ayuda para iniciarse en este empeño. JOSÉ MARTÍ PELLÓN Catedrático de Economía Financiera / Universidad Complutense de Madrid Uno de los desafíos más interesantes en finanzas acerca de la efectividad de la modelación financiera es cerrar la brecha entre el ámbito académico y el práctico. Para lograr esto, el analista usa su "caja de herramientas", en donde encuentra modelos, fórmulas, códigos, técnicas matemáticas y estadísticas; pero también intuición, referenciación, debate, creatividad, método, ensayo, error y persistencia. Dicha brecha no se cierra completamente, pero cada intento entrena al profesional para el siguiente problema. Este libro engrosa nuestra "caja de herramientas" y acerca las técnicas a las soluciones prácticas; así, el proceso de análisis de problemas financieros tiene mayores posibilidades de alcanzar soluciones reales y efectivas. Este libro nos ayuda a entrenar y prepararnos mejor para el siguiente reto financiero. FELIPE HERRERA Vicepresidente de inversiones / Protección Este libro es una guía fundamental en el estudio de las Matemáticas Financieras y la Evaluación Financiera de Proyectos, pues expone la teoría de una manera muy clara y pedagógica, y permite aplicarla con una herramienta poderosa como Microsoft Excel. Pocos libros tienen esta conexión, la cual es vital para el desarrollo de las actividades de un analista financiero. SANTIAGO REVELO Coordinador de Modelaciones Financieras / SURA Este libro presenta Excel como herramienta fundamental en la transición de la teoría a la práctica que todo estudiante requiere para enfrentarse al campo laboral. Además de explicar con claridad los conceptos financieros, enseña técnicas en el uso de la hoja de cálculo que, sin duda, ahorran tiempo y facilitan el aprendizaje. MARIO OCHOA OCAMPO Coordinador de Planeación Financiera, profesor universitario / ARUS

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This book addresses two significant research areas in an interdependent fashion. It is first of all a comprehensive but concise text that covers the recently developed and widely applicable methods of qualitative choice analysis, illustrating the general theory through simulation models of automobile demand and use. It is also a detailed study of automobile demand and use, presenting forecasts based on these powerful new techniques. The book develops the general principles that underlie qualitative choice models that are now being applied in numerous fields in addition to transportation, such as housing, labor, energy, communications, and criminology. The general form, derivation, and estimation of qualitative choice models are explained, and the major models - logit, probit, and GEV - are discussed in detail. And continuous/discrete models are introduced. In these, qualitative choice methods and standard regression techniques are combined to analyze situations that neither alone can accurately forecast. Summarizing previous research on auto demand, the book shows how qualitative choice methods can be used by applying them to specific auto-related decisions as the aggregate of individuals' choices. The simulation model that is constructed is a significant improvement over older models, and should prove more useful to agencies and organizations requiring accurate forecasting of auto demand and use for planning and policy development. The book concludes with an actual case study based on a model designed for the investigations of the California Energy Commission. Kenneth Train is Visiting Associate Professor in Economics at the University of California, Berkeley, and Director of Economic Research at Cambridge Systematics, Inc., also in Berkeley. Qualitative Choice Analysisis included in The MIT Press Transportation Studies Series, edited by Marvin L. Manheim.

The editors draw on a 3-year project that analyzed a Portuguese area in detail, comparing this study with papers from other regions. Applications include the estimation of technical efficiency in agricultural grazing systems (dairy, beef and mixed) and specifically for dairy farms. The conclusions indicate that it is now necessary to help small dairy farms in order to make them more efficient. These results can be compared with the technical efficiency of a sample of Spanish dairy processing firms presented by Magdalena Kapelko and co-authors.