The Electronic Call Auction: Market Mechanism and Trading (The New York University Salomon Center Series on Financial Markets and Institutions)

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This book considers how the inclusion of electronic call auction trading would affect the performance of our U.S. equity markets. The papers it contains focus on the call auction and its role in a hybrid market structure. The purpose is to increase understanding of this trading environment, and to consider the design of a more efficient stock market.
A call auction is a form of trading that died out in the pre-computer age but is making its reentrance today as an electronic marketplace. Batching orders for simultaneous execution at a single moment in time at a single price is the essence of call auction trading. Because its determination is based on the full set of orders, the clearing price in a call auction can be thought of as a `consensus value.' This contrasts with a continuous market where a transaction is made any time a buy and sell order meet in price, and where price generally fluctuates as the orders meet.
Recent advances in computer technology have considerably expanded the call auction's functionality. We suggest that the problems we are facing concerning liquidity, volatility, fragmentation and price discovery are largely endemic to the continuous market, and that the introduction of electronic call auction trading in the U.S. would be the most important innovation in market structure that could be made.
This book had its origin in a symposium, Electronic Call Market Trading, that was held at New York University's Salomon Center on April 20, 1995. At the time, three proprietary trading systems based on call auction principles (The Arizona Stock Exchange, Posit, and Instinet's Crossing Network) had been operating for several years and interest already existed in the procedure. Since the symposium, increasing use has been made of call auctions, primarily by the ParisBourse in its Nouveau Marchi and CAC markets, by Deutsche Börse in its Xetra market, and for fixed income in the U.S. by State Street's BondConnect. Rather than being used as stand alone systems, however, call auctions are now being interfaced with continuous markets so as to produce hybrid market structures, a development to which considerable attention is given in a number of the chapters in this book.
The book is divided into three parts.

The first, Call Auction Trading, gives an overview of this trading environment.
The second, Investor Trading Practices and the Demand for Immediacy, contains the findings of four institutional trader surveys.
The third, Market Structure: The Broader Picture, presents a more inclusive view of the development of market structure.

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Billing Power's Power for Executive Search recruiters

Billing Power - A road to success

Outstanding techniques to launch your career

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Billing Power! The Recruiter's Guide to Peak Performance
Bill Radin
Manufacturer: Innovative Consulting, Inc.
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
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ASIN: 1929836120
Release Date: 2005-01-01

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The industry-standard training resource for recruiters, Billing Power is filled with recruiting tips, techniques and insider search and placement methods. An indispensable tool (and required reading!) for many of the country's top search firms and recruiting organizations.

A comprehensive, easy-to-read guide for new and experienced recruiters includes: How to design powerful scripts for marketing and recruiting -- How to leverage your production -- The truth about retainers, engagement fees and exclusives -- How to avoid the resume trap -- How to negotiate for higher fees -- Strategies for closing more deals -- How to convert candidates into placements -- How to protect yourself against counteroffers -- How to get the most out of every call -- Selling strategies that really work -- How to set and achieve goals -- and much more!

Packed with innovative, money-making techniques, Billing Power also contains: Advanced strategies for higher billings -- How to deal with relocation problems -- How to use delegation to your advantage -- The power of the EIO -- Techniques for candidate marketing -- How to construct attention-grabbing sales presentations. A treasure trove of time-saving tips and proven methods for increasing your billings!

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Billing Power's Power for Executive Search recruiters.......2007-01-11

This is an excellent book for all the executive search consultants to read. The times have changed and technology is far better now but the fundamentals remain the same.

Billing Power - A road to success.......2006-08-21

Billing Power is easy to understand and states facts which occur in any kind of Recruitng Industry. The author does not give any unique solutions to the problems faced by the Recruiters but simple solutions which we are all aware of.

It is a must read book by all the people in Recruiting Business.

Outstanding techniques to launch your career.......2006-07-11

This is a good resource if you want to do recruiting for the Medical Device R&D fields for example in recruiting Biomedical Scientists, Medical Device Engineers, Clinical Nurses and Marketing VPs for companies that do cutting edge product development and testing. The techniques may be useful in many other fields as well but this is my experience. If you are new to recruiting this is essential reading. Easy to read, it will help you launch your career or decide if recruiting really is the right field for you. Worth the money.

[not good].......2003-01-23

This book is merely a collection of antecdotes throughout his recruiting career. In true Bill Radin style it's like a stream of consciousness about recruiting, with no central theme or direction to the writing. ...

not worth the 50 bucks.......2002-04-19

i can save you the time and effort of reading this book. the main theme is to never discount your fees. that's about it. quick to read and kind of helpful but not the best book out there on recruiting.

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This book addresses graduate students in the first place and is meant as a modern compendium to the existing texts on black hole astrophysics. The authors present in pedagogically written articles our present knowledge on black holes covering mathematical models including numerical aspects and physics and astronomical observations as well. In addition, in their write-up of a panel discussion the participants of the school address the existence of black holes consenting that it has by now been verified with certainty.

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Diatomic Interaction Potential Theory
Jerry Goodisman
Manufacturer: ACADEMIC PRESS INC@
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000Q9Z1TA

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Diatomic Interaction Potential Theory (Physical Chemistry)
Jerry Goodisman
Manufacturer: Academic Press Inc.,U.S.
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ASIN: 0122902017

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When quiet Ellen Lang enters Elvis Cole's Disney-Deco office, she's lost something very valuable - her husband and young son. The case seems simple enough, but Elvis isn't thrilled. Neither is his enigmatic partner and firepower Joe Pike. Their search down the seamy side of Hollywood's studio lots and sculptured lawns soon leads them deep into a nasty netherworld of drugs and sex - and murder. Now the case is getting interesting, but it's also turned ugly. Because everybody, from cops to starlets to crooks, has declared war on Ellen and Elvis.

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Elvis Lives!.......2007-09-20

I bought this because it came so highly recommended off of Amazon. It was ok, but not the best detective novel I have read. I would probably try more in the Elvis Cole/Joe Pike series, but I won't be in a rush to buy the books.

Think Spenser, only better.......2007-04-21

When someone mentioned Robert Crais as an author I might enjoy, I did a little homework and decided I'd start with this, his first novel, so I wasn't forced to join his characters mid-stream in their development. The two key players in all of Crais's novels are Elvis Cole, a wise-cracking L.A. private investigator cut from the same cloth as Robert B. Parker's Spenser series with a handsome, athletic, 30-something smart alec who has a strong layer of integrity beneath the cool veneer, and Cole's partner, an ex-cop named Joe Pike who reminds me of every state cop I've ever seen: mirrored aviator sunglasses and a humorlous, slate-faced demeanor. Pike isn't somebody you want to mess with. In contrast to Cole's witticisms and wise cracks, Pike has monosyllabic utterances only. For example, his answering machine has no greeting other than the word "speak."

They make an unlikely pair and Pike plays a very secondary role in terms of character development, but nevertheless adds significant interest.

I'm now on my 5th Elvis Cole novel in as many weeks (I'm reading them in order) and that ought to tell you something about whether they are worth reading. Immensely entertaining.

In this book, Cole is enlisted to help find some missing persons: a Hollywood agent named Mort and Mort's adolescent son. Ellen, Mort's wife, is frantic and scatterbrained and seemingly incapable of making decisions. The book follows Cole and Pike as they track down Mort and his son's whereabouts, his abductors, and their motive. As the book unfolds, we get more insight into Ellen as a woman of considerable resolve and backbone - not just the flighty and indecisive woman of the first few chapters.

As it turns out, there is a bit of a formula to Crais's novels, as I've noticed now that I'm on the fifth installment. But the repetition in terms of story development doesn't bother me. It's actually kind of satisfying...like a certain chord progression you come to expect in a song but with some variations on the melody each time. With each passing book, we learn a little bit more about Cole and Pike (although not too much) and Crais alludes to characters and events from previous stories, sometimes causing them to appear in multiple stories.

All in all, if you like the crime mystery genre but also like a certain light-heartedness and irreverence in your characters, you'll get a kick out of Elvis Cole. I'm not one to laugh out loud at books, but this one made me giggle numerous times and laugh out loud at least twice. Frankly, I like Crais's writing style better than Robert B. Parker and I like the character of Elvis Cole better than Spenser.

My suggestion: start with this book and see if you don't like Cole as good as - or better than - Spenser. Crais has about a dozen installments in the Cole series and one of his latest (#11 or #12 I think) called "The Watchman" actually gives Pike the lead role after 10+ books devoted to Cole. I'll get to it eventually, but am having too much fun reading the books in order to skip ahead now. Besides, the waiting list for "The Watchman" is quite long at my local library and it will probably be another 6 weeks before it is in anyway.

What a Great Beginning.......2007-03-05

After recently reading a couple of Robert Crais novels, and enjoying them immensly, I knew it was time to get introduced to Elvis Cole and Joe Pike. What an introduction it was. The Monkey's Raincoat features some really excellent odd ball characters, and just enough sentiment to make you care for the players.

If action is your thing, there is enough of that to keep anyone interested. The body count actually stacks up pretty quickly. Joe Pike is a bizarre but greatly entertaining partner to the eccentric and equally bizarre Elvis Cole. The one liners are plentiful in this book, with several laugh out loud moments.

I have to run now... off to find the next Cole novel.

This one is highly recommended.

Fabulous New Entry In The Genre.......2007-01-03

It's really hard not to like wise-cracking private investigator Elvis Cole. Abandoned by his mother during his teenage years, hardened by a stint in the Special Forces in Vietnam, Elvis has developed a cynical, smartass exterior, but under it all remains committed to helping those who need to be helped. Ellen Lang and her chain-smoking best-friend Janet show up at Cole's art deco-Disney decorated office wanting him to find Ellen's missing husband Mort and their son Perry, who have inexplicably disappeared. Although Ellen proves to be a difficult client to deal with (because of her complete dependancy on others more than anything else) Elvis takes the case. Together with his enigmatic partner, a former Special Forces soldier and LAPD police officer named Joe Pike, Cole soon finds out that Mort Lang wasn't quite the guy his wife thought he was. As the situation escalates, Cole and Pike find themselves in a race against time to recover Mort and Perry before they wind up dead.

This novel works on two levels - first, it's a great mystery/crime novel full of the kinds of insider detail I've seen from Connolly and Wambaugh. The characters are varied and interesting, and at the end of the novel you'll find yourself anxiously searching for the next installment from Robert Crais to find out how the characters further develop. This book also works because of the humour. Elvis never loses sight of the goal, and while the overall context is one of suspense and mystery, the one-liners and observations that Elvis Cole delivers will have you absolutely busting a gut.

Good Start.......2006-08-26

According to many of the other reviewers, this is one of Crais' weaker efforts and the series only gets better from here. If that's true, I'm in for a treat.

I'm a little [...] when it comes to my detective series...I try to always start out by reading the first in the series and continue on sequentially. In the days of Agatha Christie, the mystery was the thing, it was the reason to read the book. "Figuring it out" was the primary goal when reading.

Nowadays, at least for me, the characters are what keep me coming back for more. And I think that after reading the first Elvis Cole novel, I'll be back for more with the second one. Crais has done a good job of introducing us to Cole, but still has a lot of room to develop the "secondary" characters Lou Poitras and Joe Pike, who I'm assuming will be present throughout the series.

The first in the series was well written. You'll get a chuckle out of some of Cole's one liners (a la Spenser), and though the plot was somewhat formulaic, it certainly held my interest. The book was a good read and well worth your time and money.

On to the next one!!!

Robert Crais CD Collection 2: The Monkey's Raincoat, Stalking the Angel, Lullaby Town (Elvis Cole)

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Robert Crais CD Collection 2: The Monkey's Raincoat, Stalking the Angel, Lullaby Town (Elvis Cole)
Robert Crais
Manufacturer: Brilliance Audio on CD
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: 1423316827
Release Date: 2006-12-29

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The Monkey's Raincoat:
When Ellen Lang's husband disappears with their son, she hires Elvis Cole to track him down. All she wants is to get him and her son back - no questions asked. The search for Ellen's errant husband leads Elvis into the seamier side of Hollywood. At the same time the police find Mort in his parked car with four gunshots in his chest - and no kid in sight - Ellen disappears. Now nothing is what it seems, and the heat is on.

Stalking the Angel:
Hired by a hotel magnate to locate a priceless Japanese manuscript, L.A. private eye Elvis Cole encounters the notorious Yakuza, the Japanese mob, and is drawn into a game of sexual obsession, amorality, and evil.

Lullaby Town:
Hollywood's newest wunderkind is Peter Alan Nelson, the brilliant, erratic director known as the King of Adventure. What the boy king wants, he gets, and what Nelson wants is for Elvis to comb the country for the airhead wife and infant child the film-school flunkout dumped en route to becoming the third biggest filmmaker in America. It's the kind of case Cole can handle in his sleep - until it turns out to be a nightmare.

Robert Crais Collection: Monkey's Raincoat, Free Fall, Lullaby Town (Elvis Cole)

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Robert Crais Collection: Monkey's Raincoat, Free Fall, Lullaby Town (Elvis Cole)
Robert Crais
Manufacturer: Brilliance Audio
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Audio Cassette

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ASIN: 1590865383
Release Date: 2003-02-10

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THE MONKEY'S RAINCOAT
Read by David Stuart (Joyce Bean, Russell Byers)

When Ellen Lang's husband disappears with their son, she hires Elvis Cole to track him down. The search for Ellen's errant husband leads Elvis into the seamier side of Hollywood. He soon learns that Mort Lang is a down-on-his-luck talent agent who associates with a schlocky movie producer, and the last place he was spotted was at a party thrown by a famous and very well-connected ex-Matador. But no one has seen him since - including his B-movie girlfriend. At the same time the police find Mort in his parked car with four gunshots in his chest - and no kid in sight - Ellen disappears. Now nothing is what it seems, and the heat is on. It's up to Elvis Cole and his partner Joe Pike to find the connection between sleazy Hollywood players and an ex-Matador.

FREE FALL
Read by James Daniels (Sandra Burr, Jill Sovis)

Elvis Cole is just a detective who can't say no, especially to a girl in a terrible fix. And Jennifer Sheridan qualifies: Her fiance, Mark Thurman, is a decorated LA cop with an elite plainclothes unit, but Jennifer's sure he's in trouble - the kind of serious trouble that only Elvis Cole can help him out of. Five minutes after his new client leaves his office, Elvis and his partner, the enigmatic Joe Pike, are hip-deep in a deadly situation as they plummet into a world of South Central gangs, corrupt cops, and conspiracies of silence. And before the case is through, every cop in the LAPD will be gunning for a pair of escaped armed-and-dangerous killers - Elvis Cole and Joe Pike.

LULLABY TOWN
Read by James Daniels (Joyce Bean, Russell Byers)

Hollywood's newest wunderkind is Peter Alan Nelson, the brilliant, erratic director known as the King of Adventure. His films make billions, but his manners make enemies. What the boy king wants, he gets, and what Nelson wants is for Elvis to comb the country for the airhead wife and infant child the film-school flunkout dumped en route to becoming the third biggest filmmaker in America. It's the kind of case Cole can handle in his sleep - until it turns out to be a nightmare. For when Cole finds Nelson's wife in a small Conneticut town, she's nothing like what he expects. The lady has some unwanted - and very nasty - mob connections, which means Elvis could be opening the East Coast branch of his P.I. office . . .at the bottom of the Hudson River.

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Monkey's Raincoat

Manufacturer: Grossman
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Binding: Hardcover

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The Monkey's straw raincoat and other poetry of the Basho school (Princeton library of Asian translations)

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The Monkey's straw raincoat and other poetry of the Basho school (Princeton library of Asian translations)

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MONKEY'S RAINCOAT (ELVIS COLE, NO 1)
ROBERT CRAIS
Manufacturer: Bantam
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000LTORW2

Elvis Cole Series: The Monkey's Raincoat, Stalking the Angel, Lullaby Town, Free Fall, Voodoo River, Sunset Express, Indigo Slam, L. A. Requiem, The Last Detective, The Forgotten Man (Complete Set 1 - 10)

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Elvis Cole Series: The Monkey's Raincoat, Stalking the Angel, Lullaby Town, Free Fall, Voodoo River, Sunset Express, Indigo Slam, L. A. Requiem, The Last Detective, The Forgotten Man (Complete Set 1 - 10)
Robert Crais
Manufacturer: Ballantine
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback

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The Monkey's Raincoat
Robert Crais
Manufacturer: Piatkus
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000MVRZ5A

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The Monkey's Raincoat (AUP)
Robert CRAIS
Manufacturer: Doubleday
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OY4TLI

Monkey's Raincoat (Sarumino Linked Poetry of the Basho School With Haiku Selections)

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Monkey's Raincoat (Sarumino Linked Poetry of the Basho School With Haiku Selections)

Manufacturer: Tuttle Publishing
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