To what extent do financial statements of firms reflect changes in the economy? We address this question by using European Union data. European countries have a service, normally under the name of the Central Balance Sheet Office, which is charged with the collection and aggregation of financial...

A geometrical interpretation of multiple regression is proposed. The method is explained within the context of the tourism industry by developing a model for the management of hotels. The paper first explains the technique in non-mathematical terms and is completed with the mathematical proof of...

A Data Envelopment Analysis model for the joint determinations of efficiencies with variable returns to scale is developed. The model is applied to the study of the performace of individual specialities of National Health Services (NHS) trust in UK.

In this paper we analyse the efficiency of the Spanish Police Service using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). The analysis concentrates on the police activities related to the solving of crimes. The theoretical and empirical study of the policy production function under this dimension leads us to...

Data was collected from the OFSTED database on primary schools in Hampshire, Southampton and Portmouth in order to access the factors that influence their productivity.

Scaling techniques are proposed as an alternative tool for the analysis and prediction of corporate failure. This approach has the advantage of reproducing the main features of the data in the form of statistical maps that lend themselves to intuitive interpretation. The maps are further...

Recent research has separately uncovered that stock ownership strongly correlates with both expectations and realizations of stock market returns, as well as with measures of financial literacy, ability or trust. This paper reconciles all, and reports new findings from a unique survey containing...