Recent advances in precision agriculture technology have increased the potential to capture near-real time data such as planting and yield information. It is well established that information on crop acreage and yield can have value in commodity markets. That is why the USDA conducts farm...

Life in modern society is increasingly connected by networks that link the world around us and create many new opportunities, services and benefits for humanity. But at the same time, the underlying networks have created pathways through which potentially hazardous and damaging incidents can...

We analyze the effect of alternative data on the informativeness of financial forecasts. Our hypothesis is that the emergence of alternative data increases the net benefit of collecting short-term information about firms' cash flows more than the benefit of collecting long-term information. If...