The EU's Cohesion Policy (CP) intends to promote European economic, social, and territorial cohesion. The policy occupies about a third of the EU budget and it is the most evaluated of all EU policies. With the support of the German Ministry of Finance, two in-depth ZEW research papers by...

Introduction to Text Analytics in Marketing: A Practical Guide for Students and Researchers -- Textual Data, String Handling, Regular Expressions, and Data Structures -- Obtaining Textual Data for Marketing Analytics, Web Scraping, APIs, and Structured Sources -- Basic Text Analysis,...

We develop a text-based measure of intangible investment intensity derived from firms' 10-K filings, and offer a general methodology for semantic theme scoring (STS). Our approach further classifies disclosure text into knowledge, customer, and organization capital. Firms with high intangible...

This book is designed as a foundational textbook for upper-level undergraduate and graduate students from non-technical fields who want to acquire a basic understanding of data science and learn practical skills in data analysis. It distinguishes itself by combining theoretical knowledge with...