The Bayesian approach to data analysis is useful when the variables considered are already subjective or abstract, as is the case with online consumer reviews and ratings in tourism research. The Bayesian framework provides a method for combining observed data from prominent e-commerce platforms...

Faced with the need to adjust public pension systems to meet changing demographic, economic and social conditions, most developed countries have created government reserve funds to ensure macroeconomic sustainability. This paper aims to study the importance that this reserve fund plays in the...

A comprehensive auto insurance policy usually provides the broadest protection for the most common events for which the policyholder would file a claim. On the other hand, some insurers offer extended third-party car insurance to adapt to the personal needs of every policyholder. The extra...

Tourism is one of the economic sectors that contributes the most to the gross domestic product in many countries, moving, in turn, other economic sectors such as transport. In particular, the automotive industry constitutes an economic subsector that moves vast amounts of money. Concerning...

In this paper, a flexible count regression model based on a bivariate compound Poisson distribution is introduced in order to distinguish between different types of claims according to the claim size. Furthermore, it allows us to analyse the factors that affect the number of claims above and...

This paper studies properties and applications related to the mixture of the class of distributions built by the Lehmann's alternative (also referred to in the statistical literature as max-stable or exponentiated distribution) of the form [𝐺(·)]𝜆, where 𝜆0 and 𝐺(·) is a continuous...

Information and communications technology (ICT) has potential to complement information sharing bureaus (ISB) Most companies use social networks as communication channels because they can provide significant business benefits. This paper focuses on the impact of social networks in a Spanish...