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...

The demand for personal asset allocation planning is rising in this M-shaped era. The diversification of financial products is also on the rise in order to comply with the trends of internationalization and globalization. It is essential that investors perceive their own investment preference...

Prediction of stock market returns is an important issue in finance. The aim of this paper is to investigate the profitability of using artificial neural networks (ANNs). In this study, the ANNs predictions are transformed into a simple trading strategy, whose profitability is evaluated against...

We propose in this report decisive and constructive responses to critical appraisals of the Agenda 2030, the Sustainable Development Goals, and the EU taxonomy. The lack of transparency and accountability plaguing these vitally important efforts can be rectified by means of systematic...

The research paper, focused on a rather technical approach, has the goal to design a system that brings together diverse audit stakeholders and investigates how an audit database available online can be implemented in SharePoint, as part of an on-line audit system which is collaborative and...

Economic modelers or econometricians know that they have to control the accuracy of the computations, to get their results safe. Unfortunately, even if a few softwares allow to control it (especially in using an interval arithmetic), most of them are presented like black boxes, from an...

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...