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Education, incomes, poverty and inequality in Ghana in the 1990s

Teal, Francis - EconWPA - 2004

consumption and incomes grew in Ghana in the 1990s. Second, we ask how much of the rise in incomes was due to rises in the level …

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Books, Buildings and Learning Outcomes: an impact evaluation of World Bank assistance to basic education in Ghana

White, Howard; Masset, Edoardo - EconWPA - 2005

This paper demonstrates that the delivery of hardware inputs to Ghana’s basic education system – building classrooms …’s support for school building has been a major factor behind Ghana being on track to achieve the Millennium Development Goal of … that little learning can take place. Special attention needs to be paid to these least-privileged schools if Ghana is to …

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Rational and Biased Trust

Barr, Abigail - EconWPA - 2004

This paper investigates whether expectations of trustworthiness and resulting acts of trust accord with an objective model of trustworthiness or are biased. Combining experimental and survey data, I find that Ghanaian workers appropriately take account of the religiousness of trustees, but...

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Agricultural Applications of Value-at-Risk Analysis: A Perspective

Manfredo, Mark R.; Leuthold, Raymond M. - EconWPA - 1998

Value-at-Risk (VaR) determines the probability of a portfolio of assets losing a certain amount in a given time period due to adverse market conditions with a particular level of confidence. Value-at-Risk has received considerable attention from financial economists and financial practitioners...

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The 1998 Third Annual Survey of Risk Management Practices of Unit Trusts in Singapore

LOS, CORNELIS A. - EconWPA - 2004

Liberalization of Singapore's financial sector causes its fund management industry to expand rapidly. As of December 1, 1998 there were 191 unit trusts to choose from. Eventually, Singapore, like the USA and Hong Kong, will have more unit trusts than stocks listed on its exchange. Many...

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Extreme Moves in Foreign Exchange Rates and Risk Limit Setting

Dacorogna, Michel; Blum, Peter - EconWPA - 2003

Foreign exchange rates can be subject to considerable daily fluctuations (up to 5 percent within one day). This can, in certain cases, cause serious losses on open overnight positions. Given a maximum tolerable loss for a company, limits have to be set on open overnight positions in foreign...

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APPLICATION OF GARCH MODELS IN FORECASTING THE VOLATILITY OF AGRICULTURAL COMMODITIES

Guida, Tony; Matringe, Olivier - EconWPA - 2005

This paper examines the forecasting performance of GARCH’s models used with agricultural commodities data. We compare different possible sources of forecasting improvement, using various statistical distributions and models. We have chosen to confine our analysis on four indices which are the...

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The Interest Rate Exposure of Nonfinancial Corporations

Bartram, Sohnke M. - EconWPA - 2001

Many interest rates are as volatile as exchange rates and thus represent an equally important source of risk for corporations. While this is true not only for financial institutions, but for other corporations as well, little is known about the interest rate exposure of nonfinancial firms....

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Linear and Nonlinear Foreign Exchange Rate Exposures of German Nonfinancial Corporations

Bartram, Sohnke M. - EconWPA - 2002

It has been viewed as an unsolved puzzle that only for a small number of firms a significant impact of foreign exchange rate risk on firm value could be detected empirically. This paper investigates whether the results of previous studies can be explained by the fact that only the linear...

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Testing the Gaussian Copula Hypothesis for Financial Assets Dependences

Malevergne, Y.; Sornette, D. - EconWPA - 2001

Using one of the key property of copulas that they remain invariant under an arbitrary monotonous change of variable, we investigate the null hypothesis that the dependence between financial assets can be modeled by the Gaussian copula. We find that most pairs of currencies and pairs of major...

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