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This paper considers the classical newsvendor model when demand is normally distributed but with a large coefficient of variation. This leads to observe with a non-negligible probability negative values that do not make sense. To avoid the occurrence of such negative values, first, we derive...
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steadily decreasing trend and fluctuations related to the change in some specific age population. The long term trend in the …
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This paper estimates the smoothed-GDP of Moroccan economy since 1958. We use advanced techniques, as in the public and private international organizations, such the Hodrick-smoothing Presscott and Beveridge-Nelson decomposition. The results identified and quantified, in addition to an economic,...
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Five years ago, we found three distinct periods characterized by sustainable quasi-linear trends in the difference between the headline consumer price index (CPI) and the core CPI in the USA. Then we revealed similar behavior in the differences between the CPI and indices of various consumer...
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The objective of this digest is to briefly present the status of population and housing censuses in Africa. Population census is the total process of collecting, compiling, evaluating, analyzing, publishing and distribution of demographic, economic and social data during a specified time, to all...
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This paper investigates the trend in the monthly real price of oil between 1990 and 2008 with a generalized … autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity (GARCH) model. Trend and volatility are estimated jointly with the maximum likelihood … evidence supports a deterministic trend in the price of oil. The deterministic trend implies that influence of a price shock is …
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is found to contribute the minimum to the GDP trend under study. …
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This note gives a fairly complete statistical description of the Hodrick-Prescott Filter (1997), originally proposed by Leser (1961). It builds on an approach to seasonal adjustment suggested by Leser (1963) and Schlicht (1981, 1984). A moments estimator for the smoothing parameter is proposed...
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Trend extraction from time series is often performed by using the filter proposed by Leser (1961), also known as the …
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This paper investigates the path of genuine saving (GS) based on the perspectives of average, trend and stability. The … countries based not only on the average, but also on the trend and stability of GS path. The results of evaluating GS based on …
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