Although often applied in other social sciences, text mining has been less frequently used in economics and in policy circles, particularly inside central banks. This Handbook is a brief introduction to the field, discussing how text mining is useful for addressing research topics of interest to...

Network theory is a widely used approach for characterizing the interaction between the components of complex systems. However, dealing with social, cultural and socio-ecological complex systems is challenging in their own particular ways. Interactions in such systems cannot be characterized...

Bitcoins and other cryptocurrencies are still generating opposing views ranging from being a fraud to being the source of a new economy. Those differences are stemming from confusion, bias and vested interest. This paper is an attempt to generate an unbiased, unified market definition to fill a...