The EU's Cohesion Policy (CP) intends to promote European economic, social, and territorial cohesion. The policy occupies about a third of the EU budget and it is the most evaluated of all EU policies. With the support of the German Ministry of Finance, two in-depth ZEW research papers by...

This article investigates the use and the satisfaction derived from e-learning training by sales representatives of commercial banks in France. The research carried out among these representatives concerns a banking training scheme which was followed from

Gendern steht für einen geschlechtsbewussten Sprachgebrauch, der im Interesse der Gleichstellung der Geschlechter mit Modifikationen der herkömmlichen Sprache einhergeht. Die Dudenredaktion legt hier den 1. umfassenden Ratgeber zum Thema vor und so versteht sich der Band als praktische...

This article describes ways of using original texts in the National Russian Corpus and news texts to teach Russian as a foreign language. The two-year work of a scientific group from the Higher School of Economics (from Nizhny Novgorod and Moscow), called CorpLings was analyzed. Special...

We construct a new numerical measure of earnings announcement surprises, standardized unexpected earnings call text (SUE.txt), that does not explicitly incorporate the reported earnings value. SUE.txt generates a text-based post-earnings announcement drift (PEAD.txt) larger than the classic PEAD...

Market sentiments influence the dynamics of Hong Kong’s macro-critical property market, but the unobservable nature of market sentiments makes it difficult to assess systemically this sentiment channel. Using text-mining techniques, this paper sets up a news-based property market sentiment...

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...