The purpose of this paper is twofold. First, we evaluate the responses to the questions on inflation expectations in the World Economic Survey for sixteen inflation targeting countries. Second, we compare inflation expectation forecasts across countries by using a two-step approach that selects...

While traditional empirical models using determinants like size and trade costs are able to predict RTA formation reasonably well, we demonstrate that allowing for machine detected non-linear patterns helps to improve the predictive power of RTA formation substantially. We employ machine...

Part I. Introduction and background -- 1. FinTech and Artificial Intelligence for Sustainable Development: The Role of Smart Technologies in Achieving Development Goals -- 2. Exploring the Evolution of Artificial Intelligence and the Fourth Industrial Revolution an Overview -- 3. Financial...