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The Principal Components Approach to Quota Formulation at the IMF: 2011 Economic Size and Quota Formula Update
Nguema-Affane, Thierry - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
This paper updates economic size rankings and quota formulas derived from the principal components approach to quota formulation at the IMF developed by Nguéma-Affane (2008). Using available annual sets of quota data up to 2011, the paper shows that the top 10 countries remained broadly stable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011108806
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Construction of composite indices in presence of outliers
Mishra, SK - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
Effects of outliers on mean, standard deviation and Pearson’s correlation coefficient are well known. The Principal Components analysis uses Pearson’s product moment correlation coefficients to construct composite indices from indicator variables and hence may be very sensitive to effects of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005619810
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Taxonomical analysis of regional development by outranking relations on multiple principal components
Mishra, SK - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1984
This paper proposes a method of ranking the elements of a set of objects by multi-criteria analysis on multiple …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005620056
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Quality of life in Dimapur (India)
Mishra, SK - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2003
This study deals with several issues relating to an investigation into conceptualization, definition, measurement, spatial and community-wise distribution, asymmetry, inequality and a few other related aspects of quality of life in a commercial township of a developing tribal-abundant state...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005621470
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THE PRINCIPAL COMPONENTS APPROACH TO QUOTA FORMULATION AT THE IMF
Nguéma-Affane, Thierry - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
This paper explores and supports the use of the principal components analysis to objectively establish countries’ relative economic size and determine variables’ weights in a new IMF quota formula. This approach shows a rebalancing of quotas shares in favor of developing countries over time...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005621960
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On the optimality of academic rankings of regions with RePEc data
Mishra, SK - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
five different types of ranking procedure based on the principles of representation of numerically large and varied types … of ranking criteria by a single index of overall ranking scores. Empirically, it uses the data published by the IDEAS for … the month of September 2008. It is found that the overall ranking scores obtained by the IDEAS are almost optimal on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005789442
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A Comparative Study of Various Inclusive Indices and the Index Constructed by the Principal Components Analysis
Mishra, SK - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
Construction of (composite) indices by the PCA is very common, but this method has a preference for highly correlated variables to the poorly correlated variables in the data set. However, poor correlation does not entail the marginal importance, since correlation coefficients among the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005790180
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The Flexibility-Security Nexus in Transitional Labour Markets: An empirical analysis
Blache, Guillaume - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
This article is intended to serve as a basis for discussions and, as well, a stimulating critique on monitoring Transitional Labour Markets (TLM) in Europe. TLM arouse interest from many researchers across Europe and beyond trying to develop new policy directions based on a complementary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008548834
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Using sentiment to predict GDP growth and stock returns
Guzman, Giselle C. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
This study sheds new light on the question of whether or not sentiment surveys, and the expectations derived from them, are relevant to forecasting economic growth and stock returns, and whether they contain information that is orthogonal to macroeconomic and financial data. I examine 16...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009647230
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Using sentiment surveys to predict GDP growth and stock returns
Guzman, Giselle C. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
This study sheds new light on the question of whether or not sentiment surveys, and the expectations derived from them, are relevant to forecasting economic growth and stock returns, and whether they contain information that is orthogonal to macroeconomic and financial data. I examine 16...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009647399