infonet-economy

Following the entry into force of the Paris Agreement in November 2016, governments around the world are now expected to turn their nationally determined contributions into concrete climate policies. Given the global public good nature of climate change mitigation and the important cross-country differences in marginal abatement costs, distributing mitigation efforts across countries…

This paper examines and compares wine price indices available on the wine market with those proposed in academia. We especially analyze the impact illiquidity has on the different indices and validate our findings using a simulation which allows us to define the biases induced by illiquidity on the statistical properties of the indices. We also propose adjustments to help market…

The analysis of large data sets can help to gain knowledge about specific organs or on specific diseases, just as big data analysis does in many non-medical areas. This article aims to gain information from 3D volumes, so the visual content of lung CT scans of a large number of patients. In the case of the described data set, only little annotation is available on the patients that…

This issue features not just one but two conference reports. The first covers the 14th International Workshop on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing (CBMI 16), while the second covers the 2016 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME 2016). For both, find out what hot topics and key themes were discussed, which submissions earned the Best Paper awards, and more.

The increasing interdependence of firms and individuals throughout the world facilitates the development of the crowdlending market. Crowdlending is an emerging source of financing involving open calls to the public, generally via internet, to finance with loans individuals or companies (Meyer, 2007). The major role of crowdlending activities has been to bring new energy to a global…

Research question: A social network programme called J’arrête de fumer was set up in 2016 in the six French-speaking cantons of Switzerland. It consists of Facebook groups where people agree on a date to quit smoking. A peak of relapse appears during the first three weeks of the programme. This research aims to explore the feasibility of building a Chatbot to help people to get over…

Content–based multimedia retrieval has been an active research domain since the mid 1990s. In the medical domain visual retrieval started later and has mostly remained a research instrument and less a clinical tool, even though a few tools for retrieval are employed in clinical work. The limited size of data sets due to privacy constraints is often mentioned as a reason for these…

Prior research on born globals have investigated internationalization strategies in the context of the host, developed markets. However, little research has been done on strategies of born globals entering emerging markets which are characterized by complexity and instability. Therefore, the aim of our paper is the investigation of Swiss born globals’ internationalization strategies…

Traditional linear methods for forecasting multivariate time series are not able to satisfactorily model the non-linear dependencies that may exist in non-Gaussian series. We build on the theory of learning vector-valued functions in the reproducing kernel Hilbert space and develop a method for learning prediction functions that accommodate such non-linearities. The method not only…