Electricity prices are known to have special statistical properties, where long-memory effects, varying-level periodicities, cross-dependencies and other exogenous influences often work together to form a complex data-generating process. The need for accurately representing all these features...

Portfolio managers and individual investors alike are in quest of efficient asset allocation models that simultaneously express environmental, social, and governance (ESG) considerations along with investor behavioral biases. The current study presents a novel approach to optimize the behavioral...

The purpose of this paper is to model the nonparametric realized volatility of the U.S. based futures contract for dollar exchange with the South African Rand (ZAR). We find that the Kajiji-4 Bayesian regularization radial basis function neural network confirms the hypothesis that bilateral...

Various studies have been carried out to establish the key drivers impacting small enterprise performance in developing countries. Despite many policy-oriented studies to uncover the structure of SMME performance in emerging markets, SMMEs continue to demonstrate lagging performance. Guided by a...