This paper describes the features of the type of capitalism that will emerge if in the next five to ten years the ruling classes of today’s major superpowers - the USA, China, and Russia - unite and form a global exploitative ruling class. The essential properties of this unification process...

Predictive analytics, possessing the potential to forecast future outcomes utilizing analysis of past data, is an emerging popular tool in financial trading. Stock trading often involves high uncertainty due to unpredictability arising from various unpredictable market conditions. Therefore,...

Leadership generosity and responsibility are crucial elements in organizational management, particularly when leaders allocate rewards among team members. Through theoretical modeling and experimental validation, we examine leaders' allocation decisions before the project begins and after its...

This paper explores the macroeconomic linkages between economic growth, income inequality, and military expenditure, assessing their collective impact on economic development. Drawing from a broad array of theoretical and empirical studies, the analysis synthesizes perspectives from classical...

We present a monetary theory where money is taken primarily as a medium of debt repayment and not as a medium of exchange. Money and products are exchanged in reciprocal contracts of disposals of property rights within two-sided obligation contracts. Money demand arises because production takes...

Financial statistics can be used to compare a mining exploration company’s performance over time or to other companies. For example, how much money was spent on exploration relative to the total amount of financing? These statistics can be helpful for investors who want to find management...

Purpose – Based on weekly data from 2012 to 2024, this paper aims to evaluate empirically ‎the integration and contagion properties of some emerging stock markets from North Africa ‎including Morocco, Tunisia and Egypt, and to deepen the understanding of the linkage ‎between them during...

This study investigates the short- and long-run causality linkages between the socioeconomic ‎development (SED) measured by the GNI per capita and 4 groups of selected factors ‎including information and communications technology (ICT), political, demographic, and ‎macroeconomic indicators...

Purpose: The scope of this paper is to investigate if the information and communications ‎technology (ICT) can improve the FinTech firm performance in the BRICS countries from ‎monthly macro time series data during 2014M01-2022M12. ‎ Design/methodology/approach: Through the Bayesian VAR-X...

This book is a tribute to our colleague György Drótos, PhD, on the occasion of his 60th birthday, whose career inspired the content and creation of this compilation. The book is a unique selection of case studies and essays that show how for-profit and public benefit organizations work, the...