The number of bank failures has increased dramatically over the last twenty-two years. A common notion in economics is that some banks can become "too big to fail." Is this still a true statement? What is the relationship, if any, between bank sizes and bank failures? In this thesis, the...

En este trabajo mostramos que el tiempo de originación de un préstamo es crucial para entender la política crediticia, los ciclos y los impagos de los préstamos bancarios. Con ese fin, empleamos el registro de crédito del Banco de España (CIRBE), que contiene la fecha exacta de la...

In this paper, we develop a new framework for face recognition based on nonparametric discriminant analysis (NDA) and multi-classifier integration. Traditional LDA-based methods suffer a fundamental limitation originating from the parametric nature of scatter matrices, which are based on the...

Contractor prequalification involves the establishment of a standard for measuring and assessing the capabilities of potential tenderers. The required standard is based on a set of PreQualification Criteria (PQC) that is intended to reflect the objectives of the client and the requirements of...

With globalisation financial development has spawned across the world creating a two-tiered funds market, developed and emerging. This paper is about discriminating the characteristics, and identifying the variables that would help an analyst to distinguish a capital market to be termed a...

Purpose - The purpose of the paper is to compare measures of subjective and objective knowledge as well as usage/experience measures in a credence service environment for two different samples, namely college students and non-student adults. Design/methodology/approach - Data were collected from...

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