Estimation and Inference in Nonparametric Frontier Models provides a thorough examination of this topic for students and researchers alike. While nonparametric estimators are widely used to estima...więcej »
Recent years have seen a growing number of calls for considering gender in the design or evaluation of software, websites, or other digital technology. Calls like these have arisen from an emerg...więcej »
User-centered design is an approach to designing technology that focuses on the needs of the user during design activities. When children are the target audience, this means designing for the ne...więcej »
The measurement of the propensity to accept or reject risk is an important and well researched topic. Measuring Risk Aversion summarizes, discusses, and interprets the published research on this t...więcej »
Credit Default Swaps: A Survey is the most comprehensive review of all major research domains involving credit default swaps (CDS). CDS have been growing in importance in the global financial marke...więcej »
The Equity Premium Puzzle reviews the literature on this phenomenon from the original papers by Mehra and Prescott to the present. The author shows that the equity premium -- the return earned by ...więcej »
Econometric models for health outcomes and health care costs are used for prediction and forecasting in health care planning, risk adjustment by insurers and public providers of health care, geo...więcej »
Equity Valuation reviews and critically examines the standard approach to equity valuation using a constant risk-adjusted cost of capital and develops a new valuation approach discounting risk-adju...więcej »
Text and Context: Language Analytics in Finance describes the current landscape of text analytics in finance. After a brief introduction, Section 2 examines how text is extracted from various web ...więcej »
Methods for Evaluating Interactive Information Retrieval Systems with Users provides a foundation on which those new to Interactive Information Retrieval (IIR) can make more informed choices about ...więcej »
The constant evolution of new technologies has led to an interest in how information technology impacts entrepreneurship, for both the development of new technology and support for funding mecha...więcej »
Over the past years, individuals’ and patients’ health data have been increasingly present in public debate. Recently there has been a proliferation of new technologies, particularly...więcej »
Natural Gas Pipeline Regulation in the United States: Past, Present, and Future provides a detailed economic overview of these regulations and reviews the relevant economic and policy l...więcej »
Much of economists' statistical work centers on testing hypotheses in which parameter values are partitioned between a null hypothesis and an alternative hypothesis in order to distinguish two view...więcej »
Public Support of Private Innovation describes the One North Carolina Small Business Program’s purpose and history, as well as offer an assessment of whether it has met its stated goals an...więcej »
Entrepreneurial Finance: Emerging Approaches Using Machine Learning and Big Data presents a comprehensive overview of the applications of machine learning algorithms to...więcej »
As long as there have been computers, there has been a desire to integrate one's thoughts directly with them. As the technology progressively comes into contact with human users, new challenges ...więcej »
From Ethnic Enclaves to Transnational Landscapes: A Review of Immigrant Entrepreneurship Research reviews the existing literature on immigrant entrepreneurship by focusing on immigrant ...więcej »