We analyse four years of transaction data for euro-area sovereign bonds traded on the MTS electronic platforms. In order to measure the informational content of trading activity, we estimate the permanent price response to trades. We not only find strong evidence of information asymmetry in...

Nowadays, Biometrics has become a popular tool in personal identification as it can use physiological or behavioral characteristics to identify individuals. Recent advances in information technology has increased the accuracy of biometric to another level, there is still a slew of problems...

This article proposes an effective method for real-time banknote recognition, using digital image processing. The new Series 7 New Zealand banknotes are considered, as a case study, for intelligent real-time recognition. The composite feature of a banknote containing the elements of color and...

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to assess the factors that motivate young people’s intention to undergo cosmetic surgery in Vietnam. Design/methodology/approach: This study applies Ajzen’s theory of planned behavior as a research model. The study is based on a quantitative method that...

After almost two decades of poverty maps produced by the World Bank and multiple advances in the literature, this paper presents a methodological update to the World Bank's toolkit for small area estimation. The paper reviews the computational procedures of the current methods used by the World...

This study examines which factors influence support for reducing fossil fuel subsidies and what types of information shift people's views through surveying 37,000 respondents across 12 middle-income countries that provided over USD750 billion in explicit and implicit subsidies for fossil fuels...