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Predictability of asset returns and the efficient market hypothesis
Pesaran, M. Hashem - 2010
This paper is concerned with empirical and theoretical basis of the Efficient Market Hypothesis (EMH). The paper begins with an overview of the statistical properties of asset returns at different frequencies (daily, weekly and monthly), and considers the evidence on return predictability, risk...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003985756
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The economics of human development and social mobility
Heckman, James J.; Mosso, Stefano - 2014
This paper distills and extends recent research on the economics of human development and social mobility. It summarizes the evidence from diverse literatures on the importance of early life conditions in shaping multiple life skills and the evidence on critical and sensitive investment periods...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010252655
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Infinite dimensional VARs and factor models
Chudik, Alexander (contributor);  … - 2007
This paper introduces a novel approach for dealing with the 'curse of dimensionality' in the case of large linear dynamic systems. Restrictions on the coefficients of an unrestricted VAR are proposed that are binding only in a limit as the number of endogenous variables tends to infinity. It is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003646695
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A pair-wise approach to testing for output and growth convergence
Pesaran, M. Hashem (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
to output series in the Penn World Tables over 1950-2000, as well as to Maddion's historical series over 1870 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002422931
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Skill policies for Scotland
Heckman, James J. (contributor);  … - 2004
This paper argues that skill formation is a life-cycle process and develops the implications of this insight for Scottish social policy. Families are major producers of skills, and a successful policy needs to promote effective families and to supplement failing ones. We present evidence that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002540578
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Family values and the regulation of labor
Alesina, Alberto; Algan, Yann; Cahuc, Pierre; Giuliano, … - 2010
first century and family values prevailing before World War II, which suggests that labor market regulations have deep …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003939216
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China's emergence in the world economy and business cycles in Latin America
Cesa-Bianchi, Ambrogio; Pesaran, M. Hashem; Rebucci, … - 2011
world have altered the transmission mechanism of international business cycles to Latin America. Evidence based on a Global … world shows that the long-term impact of a China GDP shock on the typical Latin American economy has increased by three … associated with a deceleration in China's economic growth in the future for both Latin America and the rest of the world economy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009311486
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Trust, growth and well-being : new evidence and policy implications
Algan, Yann; Cahuc, Pierre - 2013
This survey reviews the recent research on trust, institutions and growth. It discusses the various measures of trust and documents the substantial heterogeneity of trust across space and time. The conceptual mechanisms and the methods employed to identify the causal impact of trust on economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009763283
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Teaching practices and social capital
Algan, Yann; Cahuc, Pierre; Shleifer, Andrei - 2011
We use several data sets to consider the effect of teaching practices on student beliefs, as well as on organization of firms and institutions. In cross-country data, we show that teaching practices (such as copying from the board versus working on projects together) are strongly related to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009516921
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Identification of New Keynesian Phillips Curves from a global perspective
Dées, Stephane; Pesaran, M. Hashem; Smith, L. Vanessa; … - 2008
number of issues of concern about how they are estimated and then related to the underlying macroeconomic theory. The first …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003652695