Advances in Machine Learning (ML) led organizations to increasingly implement predictive decision aids intended to improve employees' decision-making performance. While such systems improve organizational efficiency in many contexts, they might be a double-edged sword when there is the danger of...

The possibility to investigate the impact of news on stock prices has observed a strong evolution thanks to the recent use of natural language processing (NLP) in finance and economics. In this paper, we investigate COVID-19 news, elaborated with the "Natural Language Toolkit" that uses machine...

<Para ID="Par2">Privacy and security incidents represent a serious threat for a company’s business success. While previous research in this area mainly investigated second-order effects (e.g., capital market reactions to privacy or security incidents), this study focuses on first-order effects, that is, the...</para>

The cumulative dissertation of Michael Nofer examines whether Social Media platforms can be used to predict stock returns. Market-relevant information is available on various platforms on the Internet, which consist largely of user generated content. For instance, emotions can be extracted in...