This paper presents the phenomenon of crowdfunding — one of the newest approaches to financing the production of cultural works. While being a rather revolutionary alternative to traditional publishers, record labels, and other cultural producers, crowdfunding poses several interesting...

The paper describes the results of estimation of a factor-augmented vector autoregressive model that relates the markup on mortgage loans in national currency, granted to households by monetary financial institutions, and 1-month inter-bank rate that represents the cost of funds for financial...

The popularity of econometric analyses that include variables obtained from text mining is growing rapidly. A frequently applied approach is to identify topics from large corpora, which makes it possible to determine trends that reflect the changing relevance of topics over time. We address the...