In today's evolving job market, internships and work-based learning (WBL) are widely seen as pathways to graduate employment. Yet employers continue to raise concerns about graduates' preparedness and their lack of enterprise competencies. This chapter critically examines this disconnect,...

It is well established that the U.S. prewar output was more volatile and less shock persistent than the postwar output. This is often attributed to the data interpolation employed to construct the prewar series. Our analytical results, however, indicate that commonly used linear interpolation...

It is well established that the U.S. prewar output was more volatile and less shock persistent than the postwar output. This is often attributed to the data interpolation employed to construct the prewar series. Our analytical results, however, indicate that commonly used linear interpolation...

Forecasting returns in Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) markets remains challenging because REIT performance is shaped by nonlinear and time-varying interactions with macro-financial conditions. This study evaluates the forecasting performance of Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) neural networks...

The rapid expansion of small and medium enterprise (SME) lending has intensified the need for accurate and interpretable credit risk forecasting. Financial institutions must anticipate potential business loan delinquency to maintain portfolio stability and meet regulatory standards. This study...