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instruments to manage food price volatility. Many developing countries recently pursued price regulation policies, but the … policy to lower food price volatility does not depend on the nature of the policy instrument only, but also on the … be key factor influencing the degree of price volatility. Applied to trade policies, this consistency is defined by the …
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in Ethiopia, using data from a rural household survey conducted in 1994 and an estimated labour demand equation. We also … reflect the limited development of fully organised labour markets in rural Ethiopia. They also imply that purely market …
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This working paper contains the first results of a questionnaire that was conducted in May 2004 (May, 8-9) among 331 students of the Addis Ababa University to know their opinion about democracy and the political preferences they express through voting. The paper takes the form of the...
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&D investment and productivity growth are more negatively correlated with sales volatility in more credit constrained firms. …
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market price of risk, the risk free rate, the bond prices at dierent maturities, the stock price and volatility as well as …
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We propose a tractable framework for quantifying the impact of fire sales on the volatility and correlations of asset … returns and provide a quantitative explanation for spikes in volatility and correlations observed during liquidation of large …
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An elementary arbitrage principle and the existence of trends in financial time series, which is based on a theorem published in 1995 by P. Cartier and Y. Perrin, lead to a new understanding of option pricing and dynamic hedging. Intricate problems related to violent behaviors of the underlying,...
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with limited memory, then there are rationally formed expectations equilibria exhibiting an excess volatility that no … one from a positive viewpoint, this result suggests that the possibility of excess volatility as an equilibrium phenomenon …
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We decompose volatility of a stock market index both in time and scale using wavelet filters and design a probabilistic …
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This paper studies empirically the link between remittances and growth volatility by examining the impact of … of moment (GMM) technique for a sample of 63 countries over the 1980-2004 period. The volatility of terms of trade and … inflation is used to proxy for real and monetary volatility, respectively. The results show that the impact of remittances on …
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