Self-Interest: What It Means in Economics, With Examples

Self-interest describes actions that are intended to result in personal gain. It comes with both pros and cons.

New backtests for improved expectile risk forecasts evaluation

Expectiles are a coherent and elicitable alternative to commonly used market risk measures, but practical backtesting tools ...
IEEE

Let Us Use Negative Examples in Regression-Type Problems Too

Abstract: In many practical situations, we need to reconstruct the dependence between quantities x and y based on several situations in which we know both x and y values. Such problems are known as ...
GitHub

Is my problem new?

Update (2025/10/31): Incorporated QOJ OCR data from @cjwen6. Thanks a lot for the contribution! Also added HTTPS. Simplify the statement & remove background by prompting LLM. Embed the simplified ...
MarketWatch

College sports has a new money problem — and St. John’s may be the latest example: ‘It’s the Wild West’

Name, image and likeness (NIL) deals have flooded college sports with hundreds of millions of dollars — but universities and team general managers have been operating with little formal oversight, ...