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cluster policy. Modern cluster theory provides reasons for positive external effects that may accrue from interaction in a …
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approach is based on the agglomeration theory, a variety of definitions of a cluster exists (Martin/Sunley, 2003). The present …
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Cycles play an important role when analyzing market phenomena. In many markets, both overlaying (weekly, seasonal or business cycles) and time-varying cycles (e.g. asymmetric lengths of peak and off peak or variation of business cycle length) exist simultaneously. Identification of these market...
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In this paper business cycles are considered as a multivariate phenomenon and not as a univariate one determined e.g. by the GNP. The subject is to look for the number of phases of a business cycle, which can be motivated by the number of clusters in a given dataset of macro-economic variables....
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In this paper we try to identify manufacturing and service clusters in Spain, using data from Mercantile Registers of 2006. The proposed methodology partially follows contributions of Duranton and Overman (2005), Brenner (2003 and 2004) and Ellison and Glaser (1997), but departing from them we...
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Evaluation of economic journals is helpful to improve the quality of these journals. In this study, we adopt a new structural equation dimension reduction method to evaluate economics journals. We classify evaluation indexes based on cluster analysis and factor analysis to establish a structural...
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The accuracy of U.N. population projections is examined. The goal is to measure the amount of uncertainty associated with past projections of the United Nations in order to provide a reaiistic measure of the uncertainty in the projection that the U.N. makes in the future. Various descriptive...
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economic theory in this field after decades of globalization and in the midst of a persisting global crisis, in paragraphs 2 … why the models of capitalism theory is relevant for studying multidimensional inequality. These paragraphs emphasise that … the process of increasing inequality, the notion of symbolic violence and the models of capitalism theory. In the last …
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The data mining technique of time series clustering is well established in many fields. However, as an unsupervised learning method, it requires making choices that are nontrivially influenced by the nature of the data involved. The aim of this paper is to verify usefulness of the time series...
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