Economics

Spatial modification of the Lee-Carter mortality model using cluster detection methods improves forecasting accuracy by capturing age-time patterns that conventional approaches miss.

Analysis of laws and regulations affecting women's economic inclusion across 190 economies using eight indicators covering career stages from entry to retirement.

Realized range-based multipower variation theory for jump-robust volatility estimation in sparse high-frequency asset price data with microstructure noise considerations.

Non-linear relationship between entrepreneurial confidence and SME financing access: mild overconfidence reduces credit rationing relative to underconfidence and extreme overconfidence.

Case study of video-mediated communication meanings in a Swedish telecommunications company, examining institutional discourse construction and employee semantic contestation.

Method for identifying consumer preferences from discrete choice data when information is incomplete, using cross-derivatives of choice probabilities robust to unspecified search protocols.

A stochastic modeling framework for private equity fund dynamics using correlated diffusion processes for drawdowns, performance, and distributions, with adjustment for reporting biases.