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Previous research suggests that client politics shape national migration laws in that they converge towards more liberal regulations. An examination of recently released cross-country data suggests, however, that there is little support for either ...

In this paper we provide a general mathematical framework for distributional trans-forms, which allows for many examples that are used extensively in the literature of finance, economics and optimization. We put a special focus on the class of ...

This paper focuses on the impact of financial fragmentation on small and medium enterprises (SMEs)? access to finance. We combine country-level data on financial fragmentation and the ECB?s SAFE (Survey on the Access to Finance of Enterprises) data ...

In this paper, we present a novel approach for forecasting Value-at-Risk (VaR) by combining a Bayesian GARCH(1,1) model with Student's-t distribution for the underlying volatility models, vine copula functions to model dependence, and ...

Attention models are proposed in sentiment analysis and other classification tasks because some words are more important than others to train the attention models. However, most existing methods either use local context based information, affective ...

Background Aphasia negatively impacts face-to-face social participation and the difficulties that people experience using the phone exacerbate these challenges in staying in touch with family and friends. Videoconferencing enables multimodal ...

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) research has mainly focused on understanding the antecedents and outcomes of CSR adoption. Yet, little is known about the organisational process of ?CSR engagement? and how this would affect organisational ...

Finding meaningful clusters in drive-by-download malware data is a particularly difficult task. Malware data tends to contain overlapping clusters with wide variations of cardinality. This happens because there can be considerable similarity between ...

This article seeks to address an empirical puzzle: ?why do community-based labour organizations (CLOs) in China and Japan play a similarly marginal role in facilitating social change, despite drastic differences in national circumstances?? ...

Deep convoloutional networks have achieved remarkable performance in a wide range of vision-based tasks in modern internet of things (IoT). Due to privacy issue and transmission cost, mannually annotated data for training the deep learning models ...