This study assesses the impact of socioeconomic and cultural factors that are likely to have effects on the development of artificial intelligence at the national level. This technology is evaluated both globally and in terms of its components: qualified users, technical capabilities,...

This paper demonstrates how the estimation of economic activities and inequality for the Indian economy based on nighttime lights data from the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) satellite outperforms those obtained using traditional Defense Meteorological Satellite Program...

Beta-sorted portfolios-portfolios comprised of assets with similar covariation to selected risk factors-are a popular tool in empirical finance to analyze models of (conditional) expected returns. Despite their widespread use, little is known of their econometric properties in contrast to...