All economies experience peaks and troughs in their business cycles. This paper examines eight East Asian economies, employing a Bayesian dynamic factor model that allows the decomposition of aggregate shocks into country-specific, regional and world common business cycles. It therefore allows...

By using a plentiful plant-level data-set, we examined productivity growth of the Korean manufacturing industry for the period 1993-2003. In doing this, we employed the Malmquist productivity growth index. We also investigated decomposed components of productivity growth. A second-stage...

In recent times Formal Concept Analysis (FCA), in which the data is represented as a formal context, has gained popularity for Association Rules Mining (ARM). Application of ARM in health care datasets is challenging and a highly rewarding problem. However, datasets in the medical domain are of...