In this paper we construct a bipartite network model for the Maltese banking sector and identify communities of banks based on overlapping credit exposures. By leveraging confidential supervisory bank-level data on total exposures, we identify four distinct bank clusters and compute relevant...

With the rapid advancement of technology and the proliferation of online transactions, internet fraud has emerged as a significant global issue. The increasing reliance on digital platforms for personal, financial, and business transactions has made individuals and organizations vulnerable to...

Russia's Maternity Capital program, launched in 2007, is a key policy with an obvious pronatalist focus aimed at countering the country's long-term depopulation trend by encouraging families to have more children. Initially, providing financial incentives for second and subsequent births. The...

Emotion analysis plays a vital role in Customer Relationship Management (CRM), impacting customer interactions and brand perception. While previous CRM systems have relied mostly on text-based sentiment analysis, the expanding usage of audio-based feedback underlines the necessity for...

Western media and academia have heralded the China collapse narrative. This paper provides a critical and balanced examination of the four challenges facing the Chinese economy - namely, deflation, debt, demographics, and de-coupling/de-risking. It argues that while deflationary pressure is...

We develop a cross‐border market model for two countries based on a continuous trading mechanism, in which the transmission capacities that enable transactions between market participants from different countries are limited. Our market model can be described by a regime‐switching process...

Purpose This paper assesses the differences in the use of wine, as a consumed food substance, in the formulation of Portugal and Hungary’s cultural foreign policies between 2010 and 2022. By comparing the degrees of effectiveness of these two traditional wine-making countries’ approaches in...

We establish the existence of intrinsic preferences for choice autonomy, defined as a preference for own choice in the absence of any instrumental value of choice, in large general population samples in nine countries using a novel preference elicitation tool. We find that such preferences are...

As online platforms increasingly rely on algorithmic systems to curate, rank, and remove content, concerns about the societal and economic consequences of algorithmic decision-making have intensified, and with them the importance of algorithmic auditing. However, there is a lack of universal,...