Cities are key places of economic activity, as they produce an enormous amount of wealth compared to the land they cover. Their study is, therefore, of primary importance in understanding the success of nations. Given the many interactions among people that happen within them, cities are well...

Nowadays, university rankings are used to assess all aspects of universities. Due to the impact of university rankings on assessing the performance of universities, this research aims to explore university rankings in depth. University rankings are considered contributors to assessing university...

In the present paper, we investigate the financial homogeneity of the euro area economies by contrasting eurozone countries' responses to monetary policy steps to the theoretical assumptions of the liquidity trap phenomenon. Our assumption is that the euro area economies are not completely...

The purpose of this paper is to improve our understanding of the relationship between share price and accounting information. Much of the literature utilizes the earnings number to reflect firm value. However, the revenue number seems more relevant for high tech firms (Xu, Cai, & Leung, 2007),...

This paper investigates how factor clustering-based approach to segment and estimate a statistical-based credit score for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) involved in P2P lending. The approach explore the concept of familiarity which relies on the notion that, the more familiar/similar things...

I develop a two-step approach to assess the economic value of a statistical clustering. In the first step, I isolate the purely statistical information in the clustering. The second step then assigns an economic value to the clustering. This approach must, however, be embedded into an economic...

This paper examines the existence and drivers of price clustering on the Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX), a market which was viewed as one of the best performing stock markets in the world during 2014-2017. We document abnormally high levels of stock price clustering, particularly on integer...

Over the past years, a large market of service providers for powers of attorney has emerged in Germany. The number of officially registered general powers of attorney raised from almost 326,000 in 2005 to more than 5.3 million in 2021, according to the German Federal Chamber of Notaries. Service...