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RECOMPUTATION OF UNDP’S HDI RANKINGS BY DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS
Get PDFThe HDI has played an influential role in the debate on human development. No index is perfect and so is the Human Development Index of United Nations Development Program. This paper aims to measure the performance of 182 countries in terms of performance by means of non-parametric input oriented CRS employed Data Envelopment Analysis. In addition, it elaborates on the cut-off values assigned by UNDP to categorize the countries. By means of this research, countries will be able to choose those elements by benchmarking from other countries that are applicable and most likely to develop strategy formulation processes for human development and international growth
A Simulation Set-up to Observe the Effects of the Emotional Factor on Capital Markets
Get PDFThe study surveyed 74 student subjects from a major public university in the southern United States in a capital market experiment. This study investigates the link between profitability and the individual emotions present at the time of the experiment among managers and investors. This study is motivated by the shareholder and manager mechanism simulating a real market environment, where the individual self-reported emotions on a survey are analyzed by a least square regression analysis from the perspective of investors and managers