The importance of new ventures in the economic process is well established and many governments embark on programs designed to stimulate new businesses start-ups in the belief that increasing the number of new businesses will have a positive impact. Much effort is expended in trying to reduce...

It is widely accepted that neoclassical economics has largely neglected the role of entrepreneurial activity and the process of new firm formation. Similar shortcomings are not found in evolutionary economics, which views economic activity in ways closely resembling the observed reality of the...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the July 2007 introduction of a pre‐close call auction on the New Zealand stock market and its effect on share pricing quality and market manipulation. Design/methodology/approach – Market quality was tested using the methodology of...

The search for patterns or motifs in data represents a problem area of key interest to finance and economic researchers. In this paper we introduce the Motif Tracking Algorithm, a novel immune inspired pattern identification tool that is able to identify unknown motifs of a non specified length...