Epidemiological models are commonly used to predict and describe the spread of a viral outbreak among a population. Many such models use differential equations and transition rates to predict the growth dynamics of the infectious and exposed groups with a greater population. These methods do not...

This paper reviews the use of big data in Asian central banks, leveraging on a survey conducted among the members of the Irving Fisher Committee. The analysis reveals four main insights. First, Asian central banks define big data in a more encompassing way that includes unstructured...

The positive deviance approach in international development scales practices and strategies of positively-deviant individuals and groups: those who are able to achieve significantly better development outcomes than their peers despite having similar resources and challenges. This approach relies...

The Valley of Death is the gap between the completion of research and development (R&D) projects and their transition to innovation. A key aspect to explain it are mindsets, which are one of the most complex to explain due to the number of factors they contain. What remains unclear is how people...