We introduce the conditional restricted Boltzmann machine as method to analyze brand-level market basket data of individual households. The conditional restricted Boltzmann machine includes marketing variables and household attributes as independent variables. To our knowledge this is the first...

A series of experiments was run in order to evaluate the usability of two different measurement approaches: ratings and ranks (pairwise comparisons). Respondents were asked to assess perceived characteristics (i.e. height and length) of different physical objects by using either a rating or a...

Indicators of government activity must be carefully designed to be relevant, credible and accountable. Frustration with reform pressures suggests that measures of policy activity are not providing accurate information. In fact, indicators of product or labour market regulation fail to measure...

Eine neue Möglichkeit zur Schätzung fehlender regionaler Einkommensdaten bieten Satellitenbilder der Erde bei Nacht. Die grundlegende Idee ist, dass wirtschaftliche Aktivitäten, die in den Abendstunden statt finden, Licht benötigen bzw. emittieren. Aus der Lichtemission bei Nacht kann ein...

This paper attempts to first evaluate the effects of underground economy on the sustainability of tax receipts, and then to search new approaches in tax policy. Underground economy reduces predictability in economic policy, decreases tax receipts, and encourages illegal activities. In Turkey,...

This paper offers an exhaustive analysis of the effectiveness of several models and methodologies that are commonly used to forecast financial failure: Linear, MDA, Logit, and artificial neural network. Our main aim is to evaluate their relative strengths and weaknesses, in terms of technical...

Die vorliegende Bewertung der Treffgenauigkeit von Prognosen sowie von vorläufigen amtlichen Berechnungen zur wirtschaftlichen Entwicklung in Deutschland zeigt, dass frühe Prognosen nicht nur sehr ungenau sind, sondern auch systematisch zu optimistisch ausfallen. Die mehr als ein Jahr im...

This study aims to track the structural development of academic research on credit risk assessment and big data using bibliometric analysis. The bibliography is obtained from the Scopus database and contains all studies with citations published between 2012 and 2021. The study's findings suggest...

Digitalisation affects management control (MC). It leads to changes in the way MC activities are organised, performed and analysed. Companies of all industries, locations and sizes have to adapt their MC to digital circumstances, starting with the understanding and delimitation of MC tasks,...

Introduction: In August 2019 an unexpected presidential election result caused a change in expected exchange and inflation rates. The objective of this study is to analyze the relation between market share and the decision of increasing prices in the pharmaceutical industry in Argentina.Methods:...