User data fuel the digital economy, while individual privacy is at stake. Governments react differently to this challenge. Estonia, a small Baltic state, has become a role model for the renewal of the social contract in times of big data. The Estonian example suggests that online governance is...

User data fuel the digital economy, while individual privacy is at stake. Governments react differently to this challenge. Estonia, a small Baltic state, has become a role model for the renewal of the social contract in times of big data. The Estonian example suggests that online governance is...

Purpose – As the information asymmetry and credit rationing are existing, SMEs are finding it difficult to gain bank credit. Trade credit, as a one off substitution, gives another access to SME finance. The purpose of this paper is to examine the effects between inter‐corporate relationships...

In variance component models, the ratio [rho] is often of interest, where [rho] = ([Sigma]pq=1kq[theta]q)/([Sigma]Qr=P+1kr[theta]r), kq0, kr\s;0, and [theta]q, [theta]r are expected mean squares from an analysis of variance table, Q=1,..., P; r = P+1,..., Q. This paper pre methods for...

Let nqS2q/[theta]q for q = 1,...,Q represent independently distributed chi-squared random variables with nq degrees of freedom. This paper considers the construction of one-sided confidence intervals on [gamma] = [Sigma]Qqcq[theta]q where cq [greater-or-equal, slanted] 0 for all q.