Urbanization is a global problem with demographic trends. The urban heat island plays a dominant role in local climate systems. Despite existing efforts to understand the impacts of multiple urbanization factors on the urban heat island globally, very little is known about the attribution of urban heat island magnitude to urbanization in different locations or developmental phases. In this stud...

The global ozone monitoring experiment (GOME) was launched in April 1995, and the GOME data processor (GDP) retrieval algorithm has processed operational total ozone amounts since July 1995. GDP level 1-to-2 is based on the two-step differential optical absorption spectroscopy (DOAS) approach, involving slant column fitting followed by air mass factor (AMF) conversions to vertical column amount...

This paper surveys the theoretical literature on aggregation of production functions from the point of view of the applied economist. We refer to both the Cambridge Capital controversies and to the aggregation conditions. The most important results are summarized, and the problems that economists should be aware of from incorrect aggregation are discussed. The most important conclusion is that ...

News analytics and text sentiment detection were established in recent years as methods that can support forecasting of market movements. The body of literature exploring relations between sentiment measures and various financial indicators is rapidly growing. We contribute by taking a more global view and by proving that there is a positive and significant relation between average sentiment of...

Using the World Bank Global Findex Database for 91 countries in 2014, 2017, and 2021, we examine whether fintech levels influence bank performance fintech’s interaction with GDP per capita causes differential effects on globally. Since were already very high rich when started providing development statistics estimate AbFintech through regressing by year. is difference between level its fitted v...

Abstract We propose a method to exactly generate Brownian paths x c ( t ) that are constrained return the origin at some future time f , with given fixed area A f <...

Obesity is widely assumed to be associated with economic affluence; it has therefore been assumed to become more common with economic development. However, obesity has also been associated with poverty. These contrary findings highlight the need for an examination of the contribution of social and economic factors to the global distribution of obesity. Males and females may be differently expos...