in the last two decades due to globalization of supply chain, enormous changes occurred in chains. leaders in this field, always facing new risks and disorders that should prepare themselves to deal with them. in the recent years, sanctions as one of the most serious risks have damaged the supply chains. however, in the research related to global supply chains, modeling of disruption has been n...

We estimate firms’ cash flow sensitivity of cash to empirically test how the financial system’s structure and activity level influence their financial constraints. For this purpose we merge Almeida et al. (2004), a path-breaking design for evaluating a firm’s financial constraints, with Levine (2002), who paved the way for comparative analysis of financial systems around the world. We conjectur...

Information is fundamental to Finance, and understanding how it flows from official sources to news agencies is a central problem. Readers need to digest information rapidly from high volume news feeds, which often contain duplicate and irrelevant stories, to gain a competitive advantage. We propose a text categorisation task over pairs of official announcements and news stories to identify whe...

Reid Bailey Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering University of Dayton Dayton, OH 45469-0210 Bert Bras and Janet K. Allen Systems Realization Laboratory G. W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0405, USA * corresponding author Abstract Continuing with the themes of the first part of this paper, this second part is focused ...