This study explores the determinants and characteristics of the out-of-pocket to capacity to pay and catastrophic health expenditures in Turkey using a detailed micro-level survey, the Household Budget Survey during the period 2002-2011. The results show that those who have public health...

This paper studies the month of the year effect, where January effect presents positive and the highest returns of the other months of the year. In order to investigate the specific calendar effect in global level, fifty-five stock market indices from fifty-one countries are examined. Symmetric...

This paper examines the efficiency of decision trees on US economic crisis periods. Many other studies examined various approaches, like noise-to-ratio models, discrete choice models, neural networks, fuzzy logic and neuro-fuzzy systems among others. Two approaches are applied. The first is a...