This book offers a thorough exploration of how technologies such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), Blockchain, Cloud Computing, and Data Analytics are impacting businesses. It also presents the real-world applications and scenarios where these technologies are driving significant changes. The...

Chapter 1: Introduction to Industrial Hubs and Economic Catch-up -- Chapter 2: The Theory and Practice of Industrial Hubs and Economic Catch-up -- Chapter 3: Asian Industrial Hubs and Catch-up: The Case for Development Incubators -- Chapter 4: African Industrial Hubs and Industrialization:...

"Tools from macroeconomics and finance to incorporate the central role that data plays in the economy. The most valuable firms in the global economy are valued largely for their data. Amazon, Apple, Google, and others have proven the competitive advantage of a good data set. And yet despite the...

We study the Latent Dirichlet Allocation model, a popular Bayesian algorithm for text analysis. We show that the model's parameters are not identified, which suggests that the choice of prior matters. We characterize the range of values that the posterior mean of a given functional of the...