Insurance refers as a contract in which the insured transfers risk of potential loss to the insurer who promises to compensate the former upon suffering loss. The promise is called the insurer and the promise is called the insured. Insurance premium is the monetary consideration paid by the...

The paper uses plant-level data for 2008-2015 to examine the impact of the adoption of ISO 14000 on the energy intensity of Indian manufacturing plants. The propensity score matching difference-in-difference (PSM-DID) estimator is used for assessing the effect. The results show that the adoption...

Productivity and efficiency analyses have been indispensable tools for evaluating firms’ performance in the banking sector. In this context, the use of Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) has been recently proposed in order to obtain a globally flexible functional form which is capable of...

This work proposes a methodology to find appropriate weights to be assigned to attributes to evaluate bids for government procurements. The new methodology complies with the European Union procurement directives and provides transparency about the weights’ tradeoffs for attributes in...