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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

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...

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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...

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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 …

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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...

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Cultures, clashes and peace

Fletcher, Erin; Iyigun, Murat - 2009

Ethnic and religious fractionalization have important effects on economic growth and development, but their role in internal violent conflicts has been found to be negligible and statistically insignificant. These findings have been invoked in refutation of the Huntington hypothesis, according...

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Are we there yet? : time for checks and balances on new institutionalism

Iyigun, Murat - 2012

economic development. If the sociopolitical, legal and economic transformations in the Anglo-Saxon world in the last three …

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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 …

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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 …

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Monotheism (from a sociopolitical and economic perspective)

Iyigun, Murat (contributor) - 2007

The Axial Age, which lasted between 800 B. C. E. and 200 B. C. E., covers an era in which the spiritual foundations of humanity were laid simultaneously and independently in various geographic areas, and all three major monotheisms of Judaism, Christianity and Islam were born between 1200 B. C....

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