We discuss the results of the statistical tolerance test of the General Administration Management component of the Capital Expenditure of the Bangalore Municipal Corporation which carries ahead our two previous connected studies (A. Sathyavathi (2023(a)), Analysis of the General Administration...

In continuation of our previous study (A. Sathyavathi (2023). Analysis of the General Administration Management Expenditure of the Bangalore Municipal Corporation https://www.ssrn.com/abstract=4403863 ; http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4403863 ) we propose to further analyze the sample of the...

In this very first paper of a series of forthcoming research papers of ours, which we propose to bring out in near future regarding the detailed statistical and mathematical analysis of the financial resources and the budget of the Bangalore Municipal Corporation (more appropriately now called...

Stocks' returns are moved by many risk factors. Thematic stock indices try to represent these factors but are limited by the fact that risk factors are not directly observable. This paper shows a method to uncover hidden risk factors through text analysis. It applies the dynamic variant of the...

Business economics does not provide any methodology for appraising strategic investments, relying on informal approaches. Conversely, financial economics offers us plenty of sophisticated mathematical models unsuitable for applications and based on unrealistic assumptions. This paper presents an...

This paper presents a proposal for evaluating real options. The existing models are not widely used by corporate managers as they are formally complex, rather difficult to understand and rest on strong implicit assumptions. We propose a possible alternative by using a fuzzy expert system that...

This paper makes use of a fuzzy expert system to evaluate a strategic investment. In particular, the model proposed aims at replicating the actual decision process accomplished by Florim S.p.a., an Italian ceramic tile firm which recently had the opportunity of buying a firm in the USA. The...

Similar to the original Pandas project, PandaPy is developed to improve the usability of python for finance. Structured data types are designed to be able to mimic ‘structs’ in the C language, and they share a similar memory layout. The biggest benefit of this approach is that NumPy directly...

In this paper, an agent-based search model of the labor market with heterogeneous agents and an on-the-job search is developed, i.e. the long-term unemployed and other job seekers compete for vacancies which differ in skills demands and in the sector of the economy. Job placement agencies help...

In some circumstances a decision maker, expert, in a group decision making problem cannot express his/her preferences with a unique linguistic fuzzy preference because he/she is dubious into some preferences. In this paper, we present a consensus model for group decision making problems with...