The Semantic Web journal was established in 2010 and in the meantime became one of the primary journals in its field. Besides its focus on top quality research contributions, it is also distinguished by an alternative review process which emphasizes openness and transparency. Keywords—peer review; non-anonymous reviewing; open reviewing; pre-press publishing I. SCOPE AND RECOGNITION OF THE SEMA...

An individual’s personality according to the Five-Factors (‘Big Five’) model of personality can be described in terms of openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness and neuroticism. This work adapts human personality traits research to places, using keywords extracted from reviews as indicative of personality dimensions.

We assess the cyclicality of fiscal policy in 19 Euro area countries, notably during recessions, for period 1995–2020. use a time-varying measure to describe developments. The results suggest that recessions discretionary becomes more pro-cyclical, but overall budget balance counter-cyclical. Hence, pursuing Ricardian regime by indebted countries leads higher counter-cyclicality policy. Governm...

We examine a large number of potential home bias determinants, including some novel ones, using extensive panel data. We distinguish between the actual home bias (overinvestment in domestic securities) and foreign investment bias, for which we propose a new measure. For foreign investment bias, we also demonstrate how “size biases” significantly affect the results. We find that the old empirica...

The coincidence of banking and currency crises associated with the Asian financial crisis has drawn renewed attention to causal and common factors linking the two phenomena. In this paper, we analyze the incidence and underlying causes of banking and currency crises in 90 industrial and developed countries over the 1975-97 period. We measure the individual and joint (“twin”) occurrence of bank ...

We compare G7 life expectancies with the existential conditions from 1870 to date, using the real annual outputs of goods and services per capita as a measure of existential conditions. Wars destroy analytic relations, but life insurers eliminate catastrophic losses, and the outputs have an envelope representing the undisturbed existential condition. Both evolutions are S-functions with the sam...

We examine a large number of potential home bias determinants, including some novel ones, using extensive panel data. We distinguish between the actual home bias (overinvestment in domestic securities) and foreign investment bias, for which we propose a new measure. For foreign investment bias, we also demonstrate how “size biases” significantly affect the results. We find that the old empirica...

This paper examines the relationship between child labor and access to credit at a crosscountry level. Even though this link is theoretically central to child labor, so far there has been little work done to assess its importance empirically. We measure child labor as a country aggregate, and credit constraints are proxied by the extent of financial development. These two variables display a si...