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Economy & Finance
AI for Personal Default Prediction: Promises and Challenges Ahead
In this piece we summarize some of the lessons that can be gleaned from the recent academic literature arising from the application of powerful artificial intelligence (AI) techniques to consumer credit risk.
Economy & Finance
GDPR Compliance in Light of Heavier Sanctions to Come—at Least in Theory
Exploring the theoretical bases for GDPR sanctions and testing the reality of action against those bases.
Economy & Finance
Going once, going twice: how 2020’s Nobel prize in economics applies to the real world
Gorkem Celik on how the research of the 2020 Nobel prize in economics laureates applies to the real world.
Economy & Finance
Understanding procyclicality
Building our understanding of procyclicality through vigorous research.
Economy & Finance
Who should own your data? An economic analysis
Data is an increasingly important part of firms' digital strategies, begging the question: who owns your data?
Opinion
Firms Maximize Profits
Dr. Gorkem Celik discusses the profit maximization assumption used by standard microeconomics models.
Economy & Finance
Should we be worried about CETA’s proposed investment court system?
Professor Veronika Korom analyzes the potential influence of CETA’s investment court system and shares her expert take on what this means for the European economy.
Economy & Finance
Big Little Questions to Rethink Poverty: On the contribution of Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer
Dr. Estefania Santacreu-Vasut discusses the methodological revolution in economics and the recent Nobel prize of Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, and Michael Kremer.
Economy & Finance
Sense and Suspense: A Nineteenth-century English-literature Perspective to the Modern Firm
Would a modern firm be closer to a Jane Austen's novel than to a firm with a standard business model ?
Economy & Finance
Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship is a trending topic and we constantly hear in the medias about success stories of famous people such as Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos or Bill Gates, among many others. But do we really know what an entrepreneur is? It seems that opinions on the subject are as many as the reasons that make an entrepreneur successful. The word "entrepreneurship" comes from the French verb "entreprendre" which means "to undertake". To truly understand, we have to study the key actors of the economy further.
