Although bank mergers have been a topic of ongoing research in the USA, particularly in view of reforms instituted by the Riegle-Neal Interstate Banking and Branching Efficiency Act of 1994, the evidence on shareholder wealth effects in European bank mergers is thin. A key question is whether...

This study is an investigation into the cross-sectional determinants of stock returns in a small market - the Athens Stock Exchange - where the Fama and French portfolio grouping procedure that is normally used to counter the error in variables problem in estimating beta is problematic due to...

"This book provides a focal point for research and real-world data mining practitioners that advance knowledge discovery from low-quality data; it presents in-depth experiences and methodologies, providing theoretical and empirical guidance to users who have suffered from underlying low-quality...

Data mining aims to find patterns in organizational databases. However, most techniques in mining do not consider knowledge of the quality of the database. In this work, we show how to incorporate into classification mining recent advances in the data quality field that view a database as the...