In recent years, online retailers have increasingly relied on state of the art algorithms to help predict user satisfaction and recommend movies to consumers. The major limitation of advanced state of the art computational algorithms such as SVD and latent factor models using implicit feedback...

The change in the business model of venture capitalists from investing locally towards investing across borders started to intensify in the late 1990s. According to a dataset of European and North-American countries, we find that countries with higher expected growth and higher lagged stock...