Not so long ago, using maps on the Web was difficult. If you could find them at all, they were ugly and slow to load and came with clunky user interfaces. This has all changed thanks to the Google Map service. In recent years, commercial sites such as Amazon, eBay, and Google have increasingly become platforms that support complex user ecosystems. Using openly published APIs, you can look up an...

a r t i c l e i n f o JEL classification: G12 F31 C32 Keywords: Time-varying integration Asian markets Risk premium ICAPM GDC-GARCH This article investigates the dynamics of regional financial integration and its determinants in an international setting. We test a conditional version of the International Capital Asset Pricing Model (ICAPM) accounting for the deviations from Purchasing Power Par...

Metadata are data about data. Geographical metadata describe geospatial data: maps, satellite images or other geographically referenced material. The two characteristics of geographical metadata, high dimensionality and diversity of attribute data types, present a problem for automatic data mining. We present an approach for exploration of geographical metadata which is based on an integration ...