This paper empirically investigates the link between political patronage and bank performance for Ukraine during 2003Q3–2005Q2. We find significant differences between politically affiliated and non-affiliated banks. The data suggest that affiliated banks have significantly lower interest rate margins and increase their capitalization. Furthermore, we show that the level of activity of affiliat...

System Engineering (SE) is becoming increasingly knowledge intensive. Knowledge Management is recognized as a crucial enabler for continuous process improvement in engineering projects. Particularly, capitalization and sharing, of knowledge resulting from experience feedback are valuable asset for SE companies. In this paper, we focus on the formalization of engineering experience aiming at tra...

An asset is both a resource and property, in that it generates income streams with its sale price based on the capitalization of those revenues. Although an asset's can be financially sliced up, aggregated, speculated upon across highly diverse geographies, there still has to something underpinning these financial operations. Something generate political economic actor lay claim through propert...

This paper explores the size and value effect in influencing performance of individual companies using backpropagation neural networks. According to existing theory, companies with small market capitalization and high book to market ratios have a tendency to perform better in the future. Data from over 300 Australian Stock Exchange listed companies between 2000–2004 is examined and a neural net...

Digital currencies have flourished in recent years, buoyed by the tremendous success of Bitcoin. These blockchainbased currencies, called altcoins, are associated with a few thousand to millions of dollars of market capitalization. Altcoins have attracted enthusiasts who enter the market by mining or buying them, but the risks and rewards could potentially be significant, especially when the ma...

"The role of location-specific amenities in human migration decisions, and subsequently regional development, is explored. A framework is developed which motivates a new assessment of existing alternative models of regional development, indicating the need for additional modeling efforts which focus upon amenities as critical elements in such analyses. The approach hinges upon the notion that...