Purpose: This paper retested the Okun’s Law established in the 1960s and the subsequent research on Okun’s findings that a 1% increase in unemployment would lead to a 3 % decrease in GDP), i.e. Okun’s coefficient (β)= -3 in diverse economies of sixteen South and Southeast Asia, sixteen...

Parallel architectures provide the possibility of solving highly computational parallel applications in a variety of ways. Numerous interconnection topologies have been designed to achieve the desired performance. Nevertheless, the actual performance is far below the expectation of users when...

This paper examines prediction of U.S. bank failure with a probit model that uses bias-corrected technical efficiency estimated using bootstrap data envelopment analysis as the measure of management quality. The model is tested on a sample of failed and non-failed banks during the sub-prime...