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A focus on ethical value under the vision of leadership, teamwork, effective communication and productivity

Mercader, Víctor; Galván-Vela, Esthela; Ravina … - In: Journal of Risk and Financial Management 14 (2021) 11, pp. 1-32

The new economy and the knowledge-based society brought significant changes in all the areas of our daily lives. Also, the COVID-19 pandemic and the COVID-19 crisis implicated tremendous transformations in all the domains, on the one hand, threatening the balance of our society and, on the other...

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Hurricanes and their implications for unemployment: Evidence from the Caribbean

Mohan, Preeya; Strobl, Eric - 2021

Although extreme climate events pose significant challenges to labour markets, there is a paucity of empirical literature studying their impacts. The aim of the study is to investigate the impact of hurricane strikes on unemployment across a sample of Caribbean countries. In breaking down the...

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The impact of extreme weather on temporary work absence

Spencer, Nekeisha; Urquhart, Mikhail-Ann - 2021

The study examines the impact that extreme weather has on temporary work absence in Jamaica, a central concern given the country's negative experience with such events. The study uses quarterly data containing key labour market indicators on an unbalanced panel of individuals along with climatic...

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Methodological issues related to the use of online labour market data

Fabo, Brian; Kureková, Lucia M´ytna - 2022

This report provides a mapping of existing research that employs online labour market data, covering both online job vacancies (demand side) and online applicant data (CVs) (supply side). We discuss and assess a variety of tools and empirical methods that have been used to address specific...

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Editorial statement for mathematical finance

Wong, Wing Keung - In: Journal of Risk and Financial Management 13 (2020) 2, pp. 1-3

Mathematics plays a vital role in many areas of finance and provides the theories and tools that have been widely used in all areas of finance. In this editorial, we tell authors the ideas on what types of papers we will accept for publication in the area of mathematical finance. We will discuss...

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Railway development in light of market needs: A SWOT analysis of the rail transport markets in the Visegrád four countries

Toth, Bálint L. - In: International Journal of Business and Economic Sciences … 13 (2020) 3, pp. 32-44

Purpose: This paper intends to provide a comparative analysis of the Czech, the Hungarian, the Polish and the Slovak railway development strategies in light of the evolution of transport needs, travel habits, freight volumes, and regional business relations. By offering a general SWOT analysis...

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Qualität von Mobilfunkdaten – Projekterfahrungen und Anwendungsfälle aus der amtlichen Statistik

Saidani, Younes; Bohnensteffen, Sarah; Hadam, Sandra - In: WISTA - Wirtschaft und Statistik 74 (2022) 5, pp. 55-67

Statistik ist jedoch bisher nicht systematisch untersucht worden. Dieser Artikel bietet einen Überblick über die bislang …Mobile network data are considered a promising new data source, but its quality for use in official statistics has … the existing official data. However, the production of statistics in line with the official quality criteria is currently …

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Would you like to work more hours? A investigation on South Africa

Popescu, Cristina Raluca; Kocağ, Esra Karapınar - In: Journal of Risk and Financial Management 15 (2022) 10, pp. 1-19

conducted by Statistics South Africa, this study attempts to shed light on individual preferences for working more hours in the …

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Spline methods for extracting interest rate curves from coupon bond prices

Waggoner, Daniel F. - 1997

Cubic splines have long been used to extract the discount, yield, and forward rate curves from coupon bond data. McCulloch used regression splines to estimate the discount function, and, more recently, Fisher, Nychka, and Zervos used smoothed splines, with the roughness penalty selected by...

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Methodological challenges and solutions for leadership researchers

Hanges, Paul J.; Shteynberg, Gary - In: Zeitschrift für Personalforschung (ZfP) 18 (2004) 3, pp. 346-358

Leadership scholars are faced with pressing methodological issues that challenge our current scholarship. In this paper, we discuss methodological concerns such as multilevel hypothesis testing, construct validity of group-level scales, sampling countries in cross-cultural research, self-report...

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