Faggiano, Maria Paola(Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València, 2018-09-07)
[EN] The Internet offers new opportunities for the empirical research, especially if we consider that nowadays most citizens are made up of web surfers: on the one hand, we are seeing the transfer of some traditional ...
Habibi, Hanna; Feld, Jan(Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València, 2018-09-07)
[EN] This paper investigates whether people from Western countries pay more attention to earthquakes in Western countries than those in non-Western countries. Using Google Trends data, we examine the proportion of Google ...
Londono, Juan M.; Claessens, Stijn; Correa, Ricardo; Mislang, Nathan(Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València, 2018-09-07)
[EN] We investigate how differences in governance frameworks across central
banks explain their financial stability communication strategies and the effect
of these strategies on the evolution of each country’s financial ...
[EN] In our paper we discuss the possibility to use Big Data on payment
instruments to improve the short-term forecast of Italian household
consumption.
The literature on forecasting has evolved rapidly in the last few ...
[EN] The worldwide football transfer market is analyzed as a directed complex
network: the football clubs are the network nodes and the directed edges are
weighted by the total amount of money transferred from a club to ...