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The Effect of Macroeconomic Factors on Asset Returns: A Comparative Analysis of the German and the Turkish Stock Markets in an APT Framework

Altay, Erdinc - EconWPA - 2003

This paper uses factor analytic techniques for deriving factor realizations from a group of main economic indicators of both the German and the Turkish economy in order to test the effect of economic factors on asset returns in an APT framework. The factor structure of the German economy yields...

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Derivation of Theory by Means of Factor Analysis or Tom Swift and His Electric Factor Analysis Machine

Armstrong, J.S. - EconWPA - 2005

Problems in the use of factor analysis for deriving theory are illustrated by means of an example in which the underlying factors are known. The actual underlying model is simple and it provides a perfect explanation of the data. While the factor analysis 'explains' a large proportion of the...

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On the Interpretation of Factor Analysis

Armstrong, J.S. - EconWPA - 2005

The importance of the researcher^Rs interpretation of factor analysis is illustrated by means of an example. The results from this example appear to be meaningful and easily interpreted. The example omits any measure of reliability or validity. If a measure of reliability had been included, it...

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Indicators of financial crises do work! An early-warning system for six Asian countries

Lestano; Jacobs, Jan; Kuper, Gerard H. - EconWPA - 2004

Indicators of financial crisis generally do not have a good track record. This paper presents an early warning system for six countries in Asia, in which indicators do work.We distinguish three types of financial crises, currency crises, banking crises and debt crises, and extract four groups of...

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Which Human Capital Matters for Rich and Poor’s Wages? Evidence from Matched Worker-Firm Data from Tunisia

Muller, Christophe; Nordman, Christophe - EconWPA - 2005

In this paper, we study the return to human capital variables for wages of workers observed in Tunisian matched worker-firm data in 1999. This tells us how returns to human capital in a Less Developed Country like Tunisia differ from the industrial countries usually studied with matched data. We...

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Currency crises in Asia: A multivariate logit approach

Jacobs, Jan P.A.M.; Kuper, Gerard H.; Lestano - EconWPA - 2004

Indicators of financial crisis generally do not have a good track record. This paper presents an early warning system (EWS) for six countries in Asia in which indicators do work. Our binary choice model, which has been estimated for the period 1970:01–2001.12, has the following features. We...

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Indicators of financial crises do work! An early-warning system for six Asian countries

Lestano; Jacobs, Jan; Kuper, Gerard H. - EconWPA - 2004

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IE WP 02/04 Technology and the environment: an evolutionary approach to sustainable technological change

Carrillo-Hermosilla, Javier - EconWPA - 2005

Can the individual actions of agents spontaneously move the system out of a state where it is locked into an environmentally inferior technology, or is coordination from outside the system necessary in the form of public intervention? More importantly, even if the system were able to make the...

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IE WP 20/03 An Evolutionary Approach to the Process of Technology Diffusion and Standardization

Carrillo-Hermosilla, Javier - EconWPA - 2005

the related phenomenon of standardization. Secondly, it aims to show a broadened and evolutionary view of the process of … technology standardization, avoiding the habitual determinism of conventional models of technology diffusion and lock-in. Finally … attributes of the technology standardization processes in them. To achieve these goals we have developed an agent based model …

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The impact of downside risk on risk-adjusted performance of mutual funds in the Euronext markets

Plantinga, Auke; Sortino, Franks; Meer, Robert van der - EconWPA - 2004

Many performance measures, such as the classic Sharpe ratio have difficulty in evaluating the performance of mutual funds with skewed return distributions. Common causes for skewness are the use of options in the portfolio or superior market timing skills of the portfolio manager. In this...

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