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Prediction techniques are an interesting challenge in many areas like weather, banking, and finance, healthcare and so on. They are also becoming a popular subject in networking domain. This topic explores link load prediction of a network using Support Vector Regression and Optimization techniques. Support Vector Regression(SVR) is robust to outliers and can be used to online and adaptive lear...

Clean energy is currently a top priority on the global agenda, and green bonds have emerged as key response from financial markets. However, while these aim to reduce carbon emissions, they may create perverse incentives. Brazil has made significant investments in eolic parks recent years, with players issuing finance activities. One region that seen high levels of investment interior Bahia sta...

We develop a methodology for extracting small investor sentiment from stock message boards. Five distinct classifier algorithms coupled by a voting scheme are found to perform well against human and statistical benchmarks. Time series and cross-sectional aggregation of message information improves the quality of the resultant sentiment index. Empirical applications evidence a relationship with ...

We analyze the portfolio choice problem of investors who maximize rankdependent utility in a single-period complete market. We propose a new notion of less risk taking: choosing optimal terminal wealth that pays off more in bad states and less in good states of the economy. We prove that investors with a less risk averse preference relation in general choose more risky terminal wealth, receivin...

On behalf of our nearly 5,000 member hospitals, health systems and other health care organizations, and our 43,000 individual members, the American Hospital Association (AHA) appreciates the opportunity to comment on the Senate Finance Committee’s hearing on health care quality. Our statement is offered in support of improving transparency for the public, continuing and enhancing support of eff...

Corrigendum to “Debiasing investors with decision support systems: An experimental investigation” [Decision Support Systems Volume (46/1) 399–410] Gokul Bhandari , Richard Deaves , Khaled Hassanein c,⁎ a Department of Management Science and Marketing, Odette School of Business, University of Windsor, ON, Canada b Finance and Business Economics Area, DeGroote School of Business, McMaster Univers...

This thesis proposed a new way of conceptualising financing of pro-poor innovation in rural areas by focusing on pro-poor entrepreneur-based innovation (PEBI) and by considering the knowledge flows in different parts of the financial system. Empirically, the thesis found that the Indian banking system does not efficiently support rural PEBI. Instead an alternative financing sector has emerged r...