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Recognizing Investment Opportunities at the Onset of Recoveries

Fioretti, Guido - EconWPA - 2002

Investment decision-making is modeled by means of a Kohonen neural net, where neurons represent firms. This is done in order to model investments in novel fields of economic activity, that according to this model are carried out when firms recognize the emergence of a new technological pattern....

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Consistent Model Specification Tests Against Smooth Transition Alternatives

Hill, Jonathan B. - EconWPA - 2004

In this paper we develop tests of functional form that are consistent against a class of nonlinear "smooth transition" models of the conditional mean. Our method is an extension of the consistent model specification tests developed by Bierens (1990), de Jong (1996) and Bierens and Ploberger...

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Value Investing in Emerging Markets: Risks and Benefits

Kargin, Vladislav - EconWPA - 2003

emerging markets. The statistical significance of these results were checked by a bootstrap procedure. The results imply that …

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New Hope for the Fisher Effect? A Re-Examination Using Threshold Cointegration

Weidmann, Jens - EconWPA - 1997

This paper reassesses the long-run relation between nominal interest rates and inflation using German data. It shows that the empirical rejection of the strict Fisher effect in previous studies, i.e., the finding of interest rates not fully adjusting to changes in inflation, can be attributed to...

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Smoothed Empirical Likelihood Methods for Quantile Regression Models

Whang, Yoon-Jae - EconWPA - 2003

samples than the confidence regions that can be constructed from the smoothed bootstrap method recently suggested by Horowitz …

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Hiring discrimination in the French financial sector: an econometric analysis on field experiment data

Emmanuel, DUGUET; Pascale, PETIT - EconWPA - 2004

We study the determinants of hiring gender discrimination in the French financial sector through a controlled experiment. We find that, on the one hand, the access differences to job interviews by women and men are primarily explained by the expectation of a maternity by young women and, on the...

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Testing the 'new economic geography': a comparative analysis based on EU regional data

Fingleton, Bernard - EconWPA - 2005

urban economics. Using bootstrap inference and the J-test, the paper shows that while NEG theory is supported by the data …

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A Bootstrap Test for Single Index Models

Haerdle, Wolfgang; MAMMEN, Enno; Proenca, Isabel - EconWPA - 2005

fixed link functions. In this paper we consider a bootstrap specification test that detects nonparametric deviations of the … link function. The bootstrap is used with the aim to find a more accurate distribution under the null than the normal … we show that the bootstrap is able to capture the negative bias and the skewness of the test statistic. It yields better …

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LM-Tests for Linearity Against Smooth Transition Alternatives: A Bootstrap Simulation Study

Hill, Jonathan B. - EconWPA - 2004

LM sup-statistic and characterize the asymptotic p-value by Hansen's (1996) bootstrap method. In our simulations, we …

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Neural Networks as tools for increasing the forecast and control of complex economic systems. Economics & Complexity - 1999\Vol2 N2 Spec. NEU 99-a

Massimo, Salzano - EconWPA - 2005

The idea that NN can be usefully used for a better understanding of economic complex mechanisms is present in the literature. Our interest is to show that this is correct if we use the larger possible amounts of information that data conveys. At this end we will start with the consideration...

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