Median household wealth shot up by 21.2 percent in real terms between 2016 and 2019, as asset prices continued to rebound. However, 2007 still remains the watershed year, median was down 20.4 relative 2007, though mean more than fully recovered. There a modest remission inequality, with share of top one 1.4 percentage points, that 20 1.0 Gini coefficient 0.008, also 1.9 percent. The homeownersh...

The major change in the second edition of this book is the addition of a new chapter on probabilistic retrieval. This chapter has been included because I think this is one of the most interesting and active areas of research in information retrieval. There are still many problems to be solved so I hope that this particular chapter will be of some help to those who want to advance the state of k...

A global Slowdown, rising oil prices, and monetary tightening in industrial countries may lead to net capital outflows which accentuate high ratios of short-term to total external debt. This paper focuses on finding consistent indicators of financial instability. Knowledge of these indicators should assist attempts to implement institutional financial reform and improve an economy's resilien...

The article examines and analyzes the relationship of key performance indicators (ROA, ROIC, change in market capitalization price-to-book ratio) capital structure company based on pharmaceutical industry UK for 2009-2019 period. study seeks to provide a practical evidence impact external financing company’s financial test applicability pecking order theory chosen companies. research conducted ...

In response to severe fiscal consolidation policies implemented after the Great Recession and euro area sovereign debt crisis, many have questioned effectiveness of consolidations in reducing burden public debt. This paper revisits this fundamental policy debate qualitatively quantitatively, studying conditions under which primary budget balance changes can successfully reduce government debt-t...

Differences in economic and theological approaches to debt cancellation result from differences in disciplinary assumptions in respect of purpose, method, and argument. We argue that they provide alternative commentaries upon the need for debt cancellation, but that it is not possible to demonstrate the superiority of one over the other, so practitioners in one are likely to continue to find it...