The Central Bank uses press releases after board meetings for at least three purposes: first, to justify policy measures based on the economic situation; second, to provide some forward guidance signals to agents; and third, to supply some further (latent) information to the markets. This...

The corporate environment is always characterized by a high degree of volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity. These aspects influence Human Resource Management (HRM) just like other areas of the company. In the context of decision problems, especially in HRM, it is not always possible...

Academic institutions operate in an extremely demanding and competitive environment. Some difficulties confronting most schools are delivering high-quality education to the students, developing systems for evaluating student performance, analyzing performance, and recognizing the future demands...

Artificial neural networks (ANNs) are commonly used to solve nonlinear problems. ANNs are composed of parallel interconnected layers that include processing elements called neurons. These neurons use mathematical functions to process the data, mimicking the human brain. In this study, we use...

The paper demonstrates the power of alternative data. Relying on the indicators obtained by mining online publicly available news articles, authors analyze their impact on Bitcoin returns. This research shows that in the first quarter of 2022 Bitcoin returns could be explained by the sentiment...

The use of big data analytics (including data mining and predictive analytics) by firms can be expected to increase productivity and reduce trade costs, which should be positively related to export activities. This paper uses firm level data from the Flash Eurobarometer 486 survey conducted in...