Highly volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous environments (VUCA) complicate and condition project management. With the emergence of agile project management, it is proposed to co-construct it with the client's active participation. Two used agile methodologies are Scrum and Kanban. Scrum is...

We investigate a bracketing property that purports to yield upper- and lower bounds on the treatment effects obtained from a fixed effects- and lagged dependent variable model. Referencing both analytical results and a Monte Carlo simulation, we explore the conditions under which the bracketing...

We develop an indirect inference approach relying on a linear supply and demand model serving as an auxiliary model to provide the first full empirical test of the rational expectations commodity storage model. We build a rich storage model that incorporates a supply response and four structural...

This study explores the economic feasibility and long-term potential of rooftop photovoltaic (PV) systems in multi-apartment buildings across the Baltic States (Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia) through 2050. Using stochastic modeling and Monte Carlo simulations, it uniquely evaluates the...

Forecast risk management is central to the financial management process. This study aims to apply Monte Carlo simulation to solve three classic probabilistic paradoxes and discuss their implementation in corporate financial management. The article presents Monte Carlo simulation as an advanced...

Background: Thailand is actively transitioning toward electric vehicle adoption as part of its commitment to reducing greenhouse gas emissions. This study investigates the economic feasibility of replacing diesel buses with electric buses in Thailand's public transportation sector. Methods: The...

This paper uses survival analysis as a tool to assess credit risk in loan portfolios within the framework of the Basel Internal Ratings-Based (IRB) approach. By modeling the time to default using survival functions, the methodology allows for the estimation of default probabilities and the...

Value-at-Risk (VaR) is a key metric widely applied in market risk assessment and regulatory compliance under the Basel III framework. This study compares two Monte Carlo-based VaR models using publicly available equity data: a return-based model calibrated to historical portfolio volatility, and...

Aim: This study investigates foreign exchange market dynamics by forecasting and analyzing the Value-at-Risk (VaR) for the Nigerian Naira against BRICS currencies utilizing daily data from January 1, 2010 to December 31, 2024. Design/Research methods: The five BRICS currencies (BRL, RUB, INR,...

This paper introduces a novel approach to simulation smoothing for nonlinear and non-Gaussian state space models. It allows for computing smoothed estimates of the states and nonlinear functions of the states, as well as visualizing the joint smoothing distribution. The approach combines...

A popular approach to perform inference on a target parameter in the presence of nuisance parameters is to construct estimating equations that are orthogonal to the nuisance parameters, in the sense that their expected first derivative is zero. Such first-order orthogonalization may, however,...

This study examines the impact that fat-tailed distributions of the spread residuals have on the optimal orders for pairs trading of stocks and cryptocurrencies. Using daily data from selected pairs, the spread dynamics has been modeled through a mean-reverting Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process and...

This paper studies a dynamic ordered logit model for panel data with fixed effects. The main contribution of the paper is to construct a set of valid moment conditions that are free of the fixed effects. The moment functions can be computed using four or more periods of data, and the paper...

This study examines the use of Filtered Historical Simulation (FHS) to estimate tail risk in cryptocurrency markets for the optimization of robustness in this area under model misspecification. An ARMA-GARCH model is employed on the daily returns on Binance Coin and Litecoin in order to compare...

Financial time-series data often exhibit statistically significant skewness and heavy tails, and numerous flexible distributions have been proposed to model them. In the context of the Log-linear Realized GARCH model with Skew-t (ST) distributions, our objective is to explore how the choice of...

Background: In Engineer-to-Order (EtO) supply chains, managing supplier lead times is particularly challenging due to high customization and intensive customer involvement. This study addresses the critical need for more accurate and dynamic lead time prediction to enhance supply chain...

This study distinguishes between observed, uncertain, and stochastic uncertain firm growth. Observed firm growth is measured via historical growth of fixed assets scaled by growth of sales revenue. Uncertain firm growth is the volatility of unobserved (estimated error terms) firm growth. The...

Estimating MRIO tables is often hindered by limited access to regional data. The paper presents a novel method for estimating interregional trade matrices based on a gravity-RAS approach using survey and non-survey data at different aggregation levels. The new aggregate-disaggregate-aggregate...

This paper explores classical and Bayesian approaches to the estimation of unknown parameters and reliability functions for the power Rayleigh distribution. The maximum likelihood estimator (MLE) method is considered in classical estimation. The Bayesian estimation, on the other hand uses...