This paper proposes and estimates a globally flexible functional form for the cost function, which we call Neural Cost Function (NCF). The proposed specification imposes a priori and satisfies globally all the properties that economic theory dictates. The functional form can be estimated easily...

Using households with a pair of male-female siblings from DHS surveys, this paper estimates gender based within-household inequality in immunization status of children (aged 1-5 years) from Bangladesh, India, Nepal and Pakistan. I find substantial level of gender based within-household...

This article studies business cycles with the use of a novel Goodwin--Keynes type model. Based on its derived equations of motion and dynamic properties, we estimate the proposed model for the case of the German economy, the locomotive of the EMU, in the period 1991 to 2007, using relevant...

In this paper, we estimate a GVAR model in order to study the transmission of shocks between the EU15 and the USA economies, respectively, on a quarterly basis in the 2000 (Q1)–2011 (Q4) time span. Our work is based on the global variables of trade and credit which act as the transmission...

We examine how the most prevalent stochastic properties of key financial time series have been affected during the recent financial crises. In particular we focus on changes associated with the remarkable economic events of the last two decades in the mean and volatility dynamics, including the...

We examine how the most prevalent stochastic properties of key financial time series have been affected during the recent financial crises. In particular we focus on changes associated with the remarkable economic events of the last two decades in the volatility dynamics, including the...

In this article we attempt to expand the limited framework of single-objective optimization and broaden Markowitz's market standard, within which the portfolio selection problem is conventionally confronted. The typical theory's fundamental principle is that investment decisions are generally...

Our purpose in this paper is to depart from the intrinsic pathology of the typical mean-variance formalism, due to both the restriction of its assumptions and difficulty of implementation. We manage to co-assess a set of sophisticated real-world non-convex investment policy limitations, such as...

This article focuses on inferring critical comparative conclusions as far as the application of both linear and non-linear risk measures in non-convex portfolio optimization problems. We seek to co-assess a set of sophisticated real-world non-convex investment policy limitations, such as...

So far, it has hardly been recognized that the great Austrian thinker Joseph Alois Schumpeter had developed a general theory of leadership. In this paper, we analyze how leaders promote change by building on Schumpeter’s understanding of entrepreneurial leadership which fuses the concepts of...