Purpose Using the data set about the restaurants from different countries and their customer's feedback, the purpose of this paper is to address the following issues: in the restaurant industry, how have user behavior and preferences changed during the COVID-19 restrictions period, how did these...

The inability to effectively hedge against unfavourable exchange rate movements, using thecurrent forward exchange rate as the only guideline, is a key inhibiting factor of internationaltrade. Market participants use the current forward exchange rate quoted in the market to makedecisions...

The research focused on analysing the Transport and communications sector potential contribution to economic development and how this can translate into addressing adverse socio-economic issues like unemployment, access to better health care, nutrition, clean water and sanitation, spread of...

We conduct Monte Carlo simulations of principal components analyses of unrelated time series in order to investigate whether the stationarity properties of the data matter, as they do for least-squares regression analysis. We find that for stationary series the results are standard and reflect...

‘Modern’ Phillips curve theories predict inflation is an integrated, or near integrated, process. However, inflation appears bounded above and below in developed economies and so cannot be ‘truly’ integrated and more likely stationary around a shifting mean. If agents believe inflation...