This study sheds new light on the question of whether or not sentiment surveys, and the expectations derived from them, are relevant to forecasting economic growth and stock returns, and whether they contain information that is orthogonal to macroeconomic and financial data. I examine 16...

In the present paper, we use a new generalization of the Hukuhara di¤erence and derivative for fuzzy-valued functions, and we study several properties of the new concepts in the setting of the LU-parametric representation of fuzzy numbers, as- sessed both from theoretical and computational...

Our paper "Generalized Hukuhara Differentiability of Interval-valued Functions and Interval Differential Equations", appeared in Nonlinear Analysis 71 (2009), contains some imprecisions. In this note we correct them and give few new results on the topic.

In the present paper, using novel generalizations of the Hukuhara difference for fuzzy sets, we introduce and study new generalized differentiability concepts for fuzzy valued functions. Several properties of the new concepts are investigated and they are compared to similar fuzzy...

This paper proposes a test for whether data are over-represented in a given production zone, i.e. a subset of a production possibility set which has been estimated using the non-parametric Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) approach. A binomial test is used that relates the number of observations...

Recently there has been some discussion in the literature concerning the nature of scale properties in the Data Envelopment Model (DEA). It has been argued that DEA may not be able to provide reliable estimates of the optimal scale size. We argue in this paper that DEA is well suited to estimate...

One of the most pressing problems in the Latvian economy is related to the energy sector. The most characteristic feature is coupled with the low efficiency of thermal energy consumption of households as a result of poor insulation of existing buildings in Latvia. Solving energy sector problems...

One of the most pressing problems in the Latvian economy is related to the energy sector. The most characteristic feature is coupled with the low efficiency of thermal energy consumption of households as a result of poor insulation of existing buildings in Latvia. Solving energy sector problems...

This paper uses both conditional and unconditional Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) models in order to determine different environmental efficiency levels for a sample of 110 countries in 2007. In order to capture the effect of countries compliance with the Kyoto Protocol Agreement (KPA), we...

In the given research we study a leadership formation of the most influential nodes in networks. Specifically, we analyze the competition between a leader and a follower based on the Stackelberg leadership model. Applying the concept of Shapley value to measure node’s importance, we represent...