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The Productivity Commission's gambling inquiry: 3 years on
Banks, Gary - EconWPA - 2003
In a presentation in November 2002 to the Annual Conference of the National Association for Gambling Studies in … Melbourne, Productivity Commission Chairman Gary Banks provided an update on key developments in Australia’s gambling industries … gambling, it remains unclear whether problem gambling and its impacts have moderated. There is a need for more research on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076623
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The Productivity Commission's gambling inquiry: 3 years on
Banks, Gary - EconWPA - 2003
In a presentation in November 2002 to the Annual Conference of the National Association for Gambling Studies in … Melbourne, Productivity Commission Chairman Gary Banks provided an update on key developments in Australia’s gambling industries … gambling, it remains unclear whether problem gambling and its impacts have moderated. There is a need for more research on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125975
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The Productivity Commission's gambling inquiry: 3 years on
Banks, Gary - EconWPA - 2003
In a presentation in November 2002 to the Annual Conference of the National Association for Gambling Studies in … Melbourne, Productivity Commission Chairman Gary Banks provided an update on key developments in Australia’s gambling industries … gambling, it remains unclear whether problem gambling and its impacts have moderated. There is a need for more research on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125976
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The Productivity Commission's gambling inquiry: 3 years on
Banks, Gary - EconWPA - 2003
In a presentation in November 2002 to the Annual Conference of the National Association for Gambling Studies in … Melbourne, Productivity Commission Chairman Gary Banks provided an update on key developments in Australia’s gambling industries … gambling, it remains unclear whether problem gambling and its impacts have moderated. There is a need for more research on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005062466
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Business Profitability and Social Profitability: Evaluating Industries with Externalities, The Case Casinos.
Grinols, Earl L.; Mustard, David B. - EconWPA - 2005
Casino gambling is a social issue, because in addition to the direct benefits to those who own and use casinos … externalities generated by casinos. Lastly, it corrects many prevalent errors in the debate over the economics of casino gambling. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005561010
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The Use of Predictive Regressions at Alternative Horizons in Finance and Economics
Mark, Nelson C.; Sul, Donggyu - EconWPA - 2004
When a k period future return is regressed on a current variable such as the log dividend yield, the marginal significance level of the t-test that the return is un- predictable typically increases over some range of future return horizons, k. Local asymptotic power analysis shows that the power...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005077007
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Is GARCH(1,1) as good a model as the Nobel prize accolades would imply?
Starica, Catalin - EconWPA - 2004
standard deviation of the sample is 35% while the sample standard deviation estimate is a mere 19%. Over-estimation of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005407908
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Nonlinearity, Nonstationarity and Spurious Forecasts
Marmer, Vadim - EconWPA - 2005
Implications of nonlinearity, nonstationarity and misspecification are considered from a forecasting perspective. My model allows for small departures from the martingale difference sequence hypothesis by including a nonlinear component, formulated as a general, integrable transformation of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005408003
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Does Monetary Policy Have Asymmetric Effects on Stock Returns?
Chen, Shiu-Sheng - EconWPA - 2005
This paper investigates whether monetary policy has asymmetric effects on stock returns using Markov-switching models. Different measures of the stance of monetary policy are adopted. Empirical evidence from monthly returns on the standard & Poor 500 (S&P 500) price index suggests that monetary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005412588
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Monetary Conditions and Stock Returns: A South African Case Study
Coetzee, Clive - EconWPA - 2002
Extensive research on the linkages between monetary conditions and stock returns has been conducted in developed countries. This is in sharp contrast to the situation in developing countries. This paper therefore aims to study the long believed asymmetrical relationship between changes in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005413129