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This book is a comprehensive guide to aligning your marketing strategies with business objectives while embracing the latest innovations in data and AI-driven analytics. You’ll cover topics such as: aligning measurement to business goals by distinguishing between business and marketing KPIs...

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Artificial intelligence (AI) can improve the resiliency of both individual financial institutions and the financial sector as a whole. Yet, its users must balance benefits and risks of these technologies. This paper illustrates five focus points which financial institutions should consider when...

The convex time budget (CTB) method is a widely used experimental method for eliciting an individual’s time preference. Researchers adopting the CTB experiment usually assume quasi-hyperbolic discounting utility as a behavioural model and estimate the parameters of the utility function....

Herein we attempt to quantify Tom McClellan’s notion of Dance Steps between two series of data, often of differing time periods (a current, or dependent and a previous, or independent period data series), looking for similarities in the turning points to use as a reference for the future...

In this article, the reliability of first (flash) quarterly national account data estimates compiled and released by the National Statistical Service of Greece is examined. The reliability of the flash quarterly estimates is assessed through a set of standard statistics measuring the size,...