This study is the first to examine the role of discussants in academic knowledge production. Comparing articles of similar quality with andwithout discussants,we find that having a discussant increases a paper's probability of publication in prestigious journals, but not its citation count....

Macroeconomic modeling in the context of a stochastic continuous-time environment has become more popular in recent years. Most of these models are based on stochastic differential equations to describe macroeconomic dynamics and stochastic uncertainty is mostly modeled by Brownian motions or...

On November 08, 2016, India took a decisive step towards going "cashless" by suddenly announcing withdrawal of its existing currency notes of two highest denominations, namely, the Rs. 500/= and the Rs. 1000/=. The move, announced with a suddenness that took the entire nation by surprise, had at...

In more than 130 years, the cooperative banks and rural banks, have become a best practice, widespread in all the Italian regions so as to become, through Federcasse, a federal system included among the 130 European banks, referents ECB. A model that today has about 400 local banks and that,...

The working group, in valuing the scientific publications made in previous years on the quantification and measurement of the indicators of 'attraction' of a territory, tried to find a sustainable development model, verifing the effect that the recent introduction APEA (Industrial Areas...

Global financial crisis of 2008 had strong influence on world markets, where emerging and less developed ones were affected the most, their recovery lasted longer, and it still lasts. Zagreb Stock Exchange (ZSE) main index, CROBEX, reached its all-time high value (ATH) on January 4, 2008 with...