This paper investigates the effect of bank competition and financial stability on economic growth by examining panel-data from 38 European countries over 2001 to 2017. Bank competition is measured with the Boone indicator, and bank stability with Z-scores and non-performing loan ratios, all at the country level. This study employs a fixed-effect es...
Mass appraisal is the standardized procedure of valuing a large number of properties at the same time and is commonly used to compute real estate tax. While a hedonic pricing model based on the ordinary least squares (OLS) linear regression has been employed as the traditional method in this process, the stability and accuracy of the model remain q...
Government subsidies are an important policy tool that can help firms develop technological learning, and this technological learning effect plays a key role in firms’ research and development (R&D) efficiency. Thus, this study develops a two-stage approach to illustrate the effect of subsidy policies and technological learning on R&D efficiency in...
This paper analyses the relationship between the following indicators: income inequality, gross domestic product, risk of poverty threshold and median equivalized net income for a panel of 28 countries of European Union (EU) over the period 2005-2016. Two theoretical regression models, a linear and a quadratic one, are used to estimate the influenc...
Credit scoring is an important process for peer-to-peer (P2P) lending companies as it determines whether loan applicants are likely to default. The aim of most credit scoring models is to minimize the classification error rate, which implies that all classification errors bear the same cost; however, in reality, there is a significant cost-sensitiv...
With the increasing awareness of environmental protection, the environmental impact assessment (EIA) of tourism attraction problems has attracted extensive attention from all over the world. The purpose of this study is to develop an integrated decision-making method for EIA of tourism attractions in China by using the improved analytic hierarchy p...
In this paper, the picture fuzzy score and accuracy function are first defined. Then, a corresponding comparative method between two picture fuzzy numbers (PFNs) is developed. Next, a novel normalized picture fuzzy distance measure between two PFNs is disclosed, and part of the characteristics of the proposed distance measure are discussed. Afterwa...
Guided by the assessments of globalization in its broader sense, this paper explores the impact of globalization in terms of a salient aspect of economic, social and political on income inequality for a more comprehensive dataset of 121 countries from 1984 to 2014. We also investigate whether the correlations between globalization and inequality va...
Purpose – The implementation of the tax amnesty program in Indonesia is expected to increase the intention to comply. However, the effectiveness of the program is likely to depend on the intention of taxpayer compliance. The purpose of this study is to examine differences in the intention of taxpayer compliance based on perceived justice and the ta...
The legal tools applied in the context of IT technology development failing to solve the problems facing society. On the other hand, the development of innovation is sometimes hindered. The intensity of the development of information systems and technologies requires highly flexible and adaptive approaches to cybersecurity. One of these approaches ...
