This paper uses artificial intelligence text analysis methods to construct indices of economic sentiment from a database of 47,000 articles from the Financial Times. The indices have high explanatory power for predicting Federal Open Market Committee interest rate decisions; the effect is both...

Effective systems of asset management can strengthen the performance of a local economy and community significantly. Despite the existence of new and interactive technologies for recording and communicating assets and asset management, many local authorities across the developing world have not...

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In this paper, we provide information on an extended and improved version to the economic growth dataset as initially constructed by Eschenbach, Francois, and Nitzsche (2003). We give detailed information on the variables included in the Finance and Growth Panel dataset (FGPD) and on the...

This paper describes a way of recording information on discrete states by means of a technique called key transformation. This involves recognising that, where N discrete states of a variable are observed T groups or periods, any particular combination of states and periods can be uniquely...

National account (N.A.) is not a neutral technique. It depends on the state of the theoretical mechanism - macroeconomic and statistical one. When we teach N.A., we show these mechanisms through account’s tools (TEI, TEE, and so on.) with the available data. In France, especially in the high...

There are two approaches to seasonal adjustment of an aggregate time series: direct and indirect one. Direct seasonal adjustment is obtained by applying the seasonal adjustment to the aggregate series while indirect adjustment is aggregation of seasonally adjusted sub-components. Except under...

One of the necessary conditions to align management of the SMEs in Romania to the requirements and existing standards of the EU market is the rapid integration of the latest trends in ICT. The main requirement that must be satisfied in this context, is the transition from the informational...

Applications performed using computer systems and those computerized have an important role in the design and specification of the problem under study, help define a solution, support documentation, the implementation and testing of the solution and, finally, assessment the results. Also through...

This paper attempts to outline the benefits of using a data warehouse for supportingthe management decisions in a pre-academic learning institution. One of the aspects is themeasurement of the scholar performance of the pupils, correlated with the financial efforts made bythe school management....