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-sample information from theory and/or empirical evidence can be introduced in the form of known probabilities by means of the cross-entropy …
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. As a result, estimation of the model using, say, the convenient OLS estimator is plagued by omitted-variables and … novel "three-way" fixed-effects type of Generalized Maximum Entropy estimator (FE-GME). The importance of fixed effects is …
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Histogram-based entropy estimation is well known for its computational efficiency and using bootstrap method to … estimate its bias is widely accepted. However, when we apply it to entropy estimator constructed by "plug-in" method, we have …
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We adopt a family of nonparametric Cressie-Read estimators to price options based on relative pricing using the underlying asset returns. We use option models with stochastic volatility and jumps to investigate the ability of each member in this family to price options with different moneynesses...
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We introduce econometric methods to perform estimation and inference on the permanent and transitory components of the …-run yield and the entropy of the permanent component of the SDF, allowing for a wide variety of empirically relevant setups …. Consistency and convergence rates are established. The estimators of the eigenvalue, yield and entropy are shown to be …
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-based data. By utilizing the aggregates observable in a series of Input-Output Tables (IOT's) and by applying an estimation … procedure based on entropy; indicators of market power can be derived without requiring the use of micro-data. We document a …
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A high degree of multicollinearity among the explanatory variables severely impairs estimation of regression … applying the Maximum Entropy Leuven (MEL) family of estimators on the widely analyzed dataset on Portland cement. This dataset …
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) and Egypt, this paper utilizes the so-called entropy measures in the problem of estimating the income probability …
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