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Emerald Group Publishing is pleased to announce the publication of Advances in Business and Management Forecasting volume 8. For full information please see below:

Advances in Business and Management Forecasting, volume 8, <st1:personname w:st="on">edit</st1:personname>ed by Kenneth D. Lawrence and Ronald K. Klimberg.

ISBN: 9780857249593    

ISSN: 1477-4070

Publication date: 23^rd November 2011

Synopsis:

Volume 8, Advances in Business and Management Forecasting is a blind refereed serial publication.  The objective of this research annual is to present state-of-the-art studies in the application of forecasting methodologies to such areas as sales, marketing, finance, health care, and strategic decision making.  (An accurate, robust forecast is critical to effective decision making.)  The orientation of this volume is applications/practitioner. The topics will normally include sales and marketing, forecasting, new product forecasting, judgmentally-based forecasting, the application of surveys to forecasting, forecasting for strategic business decisions, improvements in forecasting accuracy, and sales response models.  It is both the hope and direction of the <st1:personname w:st="on">edit</st1:personname>orial board to stimulate the interest of the practitioners of forecasting to methods and techniques that are relevant. In Volume 8, there are 13 papers in 4 sections.  The four sections are Demand Forecasting, Financial Forecasting, Health Care, and Selected Topics in Forecasting.

Table of Contents:

Part I: Demand Forecasting

Removing Systematic Bias from Demand Forecasts

Joanne Utley

Seasonal Influences on Electricity Demand in the Mid-Atlantic Region

John F. Kros

Propane Demand Modeling for Residential Sectors: A Regression Analysis

Nitin Shenoy, Milton Smith

Part II: Financial Forecasting

A Multiobjective Model for Warranty Policies Integrating Product Quality, Market Share, and R&D Expenditures

Amitava Mitra, Jayprakash G. Patankar

Forecasting Bank Solvency: An Emphasis on Loan Quality

Rebecca Abraham, Charles W. Harrington

An Evaluation of Financial Analysts and Naïve Methods in Forecasting Long-Term Earnings

Michael Lacina, B. Brian Lee, Randall Zhaohui Xu

Part III: Health Care Forecasting

Short-Term Predictions of the Total Medical Costs of California Counties

Gary Kleinman, Dinesh Pai, Kenneth D. Lawrence

Estimating Admissions and Discharges for Planning Purposes – Case of an Academic Health System

Rung-Chuan Lin, Kalyan S. Pasupathy, Mustafa Y. Sir

Simulation to Forecast the Impact of Electronic Medical Records and Inventory (Patient) Postponement in Developing Efficient Heath Care Supply Chains

Virginia M. Miori, Daniel J. Miori, Brian W. Segulin

Part IV: Selected Topics in Forecasting

Forecasting with Information from the Future

Frenck Waage

Prediction Markets as a Forecasting Tool

Daniel E. O'Leary

Forecasting, Control, and Management of a Production System Using Predictive Visual Interactive Simulation

Rolando Quintana, Mark T. Leung

Percentage Forecasting Error: A New Forecasting Performance Measure – How Accurate is it?

Ronald K. Klimberg, George P. Sillup, Kevin Boyle

This title is available to purchase from the Emerald Bookstore at http://books.emeraldinsight.com/display.asp?K=9780857249593&cur=GBP&sf1=kword_index&sort=sort_date%2Fd&st1=forecasting&sf2=eh_cat_class&m=1&dc=30 and other online retailers. The eBook is available through the Emerald Social Sciences eBook collection. Individual chapters can be purchased or rented online.

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More information on the series is available at the homepage: http://www.emeraldinsight.com/products/books/series.htm?id=1477-4070

Kind regards,

Rachel

Rachel Gerlis

Assistant Commissioning Editor

Emerald Group Publishing Limited

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