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Growth or development: experience from Latin America
durongkaveroj, wannaphong - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
The purposes of this study were to present the current situation of poverty, economic growth, and economic development … for five selected countries in Latin America and to examine the relationship between poverty, economic growth, and … model suggested that economic development is more effective and preferable than economic growth in eradicating of poverty …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011108386
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The “wrong skewness” problem: a re-specification of Stochastic Frontiers.
Bonanno, Graziella; De Giovanni, Domenico; Domma, Filippo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
In this paper, we study the so-called “wrong skewness” anomaly in Stochastic Frontiers (SF), which consists in the observed difference between the expected and estimated sign of the asymmetry of the composite error. We propose a more general and flexible specification of the SF model,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011240205
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What Are the Carbon Emissions Elasticities for Income and Population? Bridging STIRPAT and EKC via robust heterogeneous panel estimates
Liddle, Brantley - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
Knowledge of the carbon emissions elasticities of income and population is important both for climate change policy/negotiations and for generating projections of carbon emissions. However, previous estimations of these elasticities using the well-known STIRPAT framework have produced such...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011118526
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A ranking of VAR and structural models in forecasting
Bentour, El Mostafa - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
This paper ranks economic forecasts performances for two structural models against a benchmark of time series models, VAR and ARIMA, according to a set of statistical measures calculated for the main economic aggregates. The period of analysis covers twenty years for annual data (1985-2004) and...
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Improving the Effectiveness of Weather-based Insurance: An Application of Copula Approach
Bokusheva, Raushan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
The study develops the methodology for a copula-based weather index insurance rating. As the copula approach is better suited for modeling tail dependence than the standard linear correlation method, we suppose that copulas are more adequate for pricing a weather index insurance contract against...
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Employment of ICT specialists in the EU (2004-2012)
Sabadash, Anna - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
This study examines the evolution of the number of ICT-skilled workers employed in industry sectors in the EU28 over the period 2000-2012. Data are taken from the Eurostat Labour Force Statistics. It introduces a novel definition of ICT specialists that combines occupations and skills...
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Extending the Oaxaca-Blinder Decomposition to the Independent Double Hurdle Model: With Application to Parental Spending on Education in Malawi
Mussa, Richard - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
The study develops the Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition technique for the independent double hurdle model. The proposed decomposition is done at the aggregate level. Using the Second Malawi Integrated Household Survey (IHS2), the paper applies the proposed decomposition to explain the rural-urban...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011111563
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A Note on DD Approach
Dinda, Soumyananda - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
This paper attempts to assess the impact of treatment effect or programme applying difference in difference (DD) approach. This study also identifies that the DD estimators are biased under certain conditions.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011271302
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First Derivatives of the log-L for the multivariate probit model
Vargas Barrenechea, Martin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
In this work we found first derivatives for the log likelihood function of the multivariate probit model.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836456
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Empirical assessment of bifurcation regions within new Keynesian models
Barnett, William A.; Duzhak, Evgeniya A. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
As is well known in systems theory, the parameter space of most dynamic models is stratified into subsets, each of …
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