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most citedCorporate Governance and Firms Financial Performance in the United Kingdom

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q-fin.ST2025★ 1 cited

Note on pre-taxation reported data by UK FTSE-listed companies. A search for Benford's laws compatibility

Marcel Ausloos, Probowo Erawan Sastroredjo, Polina Khrennikova

Pre-taxation analysis plays a crucial role in ensuring the fairness of public revenue collection. It can also serve as a tool to reduce the risk of tax avoidance, one of the UK gov…

q-fin.ST2023★ 1 cited

Portfolio Volatility Estimation Relative to Stock Market Cross-Sectional Intrinsic Entropy

Claudiu Vinte, Marcel Ausloos

Selecting stock portfolios and assessing their relative volatility risk compared to the market as a whole, market indices, or other portfolios is of great importance to professiona…

q-fin.ST2022★ 4 cited

The Cross-Sectional Intrinsic Entropy. A Comprehensive Stock Market Volatility Estimator

Claudiu Vinte, Marcel Ausloos

To take into account the temporal dimension of uncertainty in stock markets, this paper introduces a cross-sectional estimation of stock market volatility based on the intrinsic en…

q-fin.ST2021★ 11 cited

Benford's laws tests on S&P500 daily closing values and the corresponding daily log-returns both point to huge non-conformity

Marcel Ausloos, Valerio Ficcadenti, Gurjeet Dhesi +1

The so-called Benford's laws are of frequent use in order to observe anomalies and regularities in data sets, in particular, in election results and financial statements. Yet, basi…

q-fin.ST2020★ 5 cited

Coupled criticality analysis of inflation and unemployment

Z. Koohi Lai, A. Namaki, A. Hosseiny +2

In this paper, we are interested to focus on the critical periods in the economy which are characterized by large fluctuations in macroeconomic indicators. To capture unusual and l…