In Making Payroll: Big Data on Small Business Payroll Growth and Volatility, we provide a new look at the employment challenges small businesses continue to face through the lens of payroll, growth, and volatility in this critical sector. Leveraging data from over 45,000 anonymized Chase small...

We provide a comprehensive examination of whether, to what extent, and which accounting variables are useful for improving the predictive accuracy of GDP growth forecasts. We leverage statistical models that accommodate a broad set of (341) variables---outnumbering the total time-series...

PartI: Theory -- Chapter1: Agent-based Computational Economics and Industrial Organization Theory -- Chapter2: Towards a big-data based economy -- Chapter3: Real worlds: simulating non-standard rationality in microeconomics -- Chapter4: The many faces of crowdfunding: a brief classification of...

Today, the generation and use of huge volumes of data are redefining our “intelligence” capacity and our social and economic landscapes, spurring new industries, processes and products, and creating significant competitive advantages. In this sense, data-driven innovation (DDI) has become a...