We develop a simple model of digital markets to analyze the impact of Covid-19 on the digital transformation of sectors. The lockdown due to Covid-19 is modeled as a shock that wipes out the physical market, temporarily leaving digital consumption as the only option. Under plausible assumptions...

Even with all the recent technological advancements, the hearing and speech impaired community still struggles to communicate as seamlessly as their more privileged peers do. This is both a social and economic concern as it comes in the way of total inclusivity of this community in social...

I conduct an investment screening performance benchmarking between 111 venture capital (VC) investment professionals and a supervised gradient boosted tree (or “XGBoost”) classification algorithm to create trust in machine learning (ML)-based screening approaches, accelerate the adoption...

This study assesses the comparative analysis of computerized accounting system and manual accounting system of quoted Microfinance Banks in Nigeria from 2006-2015. Three hypotheses were formulated in line with objectives of the study. Ex-post facto research design was adopted and the data for...

It is my great pleasure to introduce to you the Dubai Policy Review (DPR), the new thought-leadership policy publication by the Mohammed Bin Rashid School of Government (MBRSG). The Dubai Policy Review aims to contribute to the advancement of government quality and the future of public policy,...

This paper develops new measures of the task content of occupations that are based on the International Standard Classification of Occupations 2008 (ISCO-08). Using a detailed set of 3,264 occupation-specific tasks, we construct five measures of non-routine analytic, non-routine interactive,...

In the current days cloud computing plays a very important role in almost all aspects of real time environments like MNC companies, colleges, hospitals, industries and IT companies. As we all know that almost all the cloud servers are storing and accessing the data in a plain text rather than in...

With the rapid progress in computation, our ability to deal with mega data is enhanced dramatically. Quantum computer is the latest development that promises us with great contribution to the upcoming generation of artificial intelligence. The positive feedback cycle formed between quantum...

With the prevalence of smartphones, it is important to understand the relationship between the smartphone channel and the computer channel. In this paper, we examine the extent to which smartphones substitute for or complement computers. We utilize unique panel data on individuals’ smartphone...