This paper proposes a new tool in the field of telemedicine, defined as a specific branch where IT supports medicine, in case distance impairs the proper care to be delivered to a patient. All the information contained into medical texts, if properly extracted, may be suitable for searching,...

This chapter uncovers new insights on the dynamic volume–return relationship. We verify whether non-informational or informational trading can explain the volume-return relation in the three largest stock exchanges. We apply the cross-quantilogram approach to investigate the directional...

Land price analysis remains one of the active research fields where new methods, in order to quantify the effect of economic and noneconomic characteristics, continually push knowledge frontiers up. Nevertheless, so far, most of the research focus on measuring the causal effect to the mean value...

This paper empirically investigates the change in the relationship between economic growth and financial development as ECOWAS economies grow over the period 1991-2017. The methodology of analysis is the quantile regression, which allows determining the impact of financial development at...

This chapter attempts to quantify the effect of exchange rate on the value of nonfinancial firms listed on Borsa Istanbul. In the first part of the analysis, the regression results using firm-level data show that currency fluctuations tend to influence the stock returns of 44 firms out of 177...