Constructing Historical Euro‐zone Data

Constructing Historical Euro Area Data

Time series analysis for the Euro Area requires the availability of sufficiently long historical data series, but the appropriate construction methodology has received little attention. The benchmark dataset, developed by the European Central Bank for use in its Area Wide Model (AWM), is based on fixed-weight aggregation across countries with historically distinct monetary policies and financia...

Restructuring the Eurozone

This paper suggests that there should be a realignment of the current Eurozone. There has been research to argue that the Eurozone does not fit the Optimum Currency Area (OCA) criteria. This might be a contributing factor to the current economic crisis in Europe. I propose, based on results from k-means data clustering, that the Eurozone be divided into three separate regions under the European...

Examining Eurozone Divergence

Constructing Data Curation Profiles

This paper presents a brief literature review and then introduces the methods, design, and construction of the Data Curation Profile, an instrument that can be used to provide detailed information on particular data forms that might be curated by an academic library. These data forms are presented in the context of the related sub-disciplinary research area, and they provide the flow of the res...

A Link to the Past: Constructing Historical Social Networks

To assist in the research of social networks in history, we develop machine-learning-based tools for the identification and classification of personal relationships. Our case study focuses on the Dutch social movement between 1870 and 1940, and is based on biographical texts describing the lives of notable people in this movement. We treat the identification and the labeling of relations betwee...