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Estimating Sleep & Work Hours from Alternative Data by Segmented Functional Classification Analysis (SFCA)
Klaus Ackermann, Simon D. Angus, Paul A. Raschky
Alternative data is increasingly adapted to predict human and economic behaviour. This paper introduces a new type of alternative data by re-conceptualising the internet as a data-…
Object Recognition for Economic Development from Daytime Satellite Imagery
Klaus Ackermann, Alexey Chernikov, Nandini Anantharama +2
Reliable data about the stock of physical capital and infrastructure in developing countries is typically very scarce. This is particular a problem for data at the subnational leve…
Expropriations, Property Confiscations and New Offshore Entities: Evidence from the Panama Papers
Ralph-Christopher Bayer, Roland Hodler, Paul Raschky +1
Using the Panama Papers, we show that the beginning of media reporting on expropriations and property confiscations in a country increases the probability that offshore entities ar…
Religion and Terrorism: Evidence from Ramadan Fasting
Roland Hodler, Paul Raschky, Anthony Strittmatter
We study the effect of religion and intense religious experiences on terrorism by focusing on one of the five pillars of Islam: Ramadan fasting. For identification, we exploit two…