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Measuring persistence of the world population : a fractional integration approach

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Infante, Juan; Rio, Marta del; … - 2023

This paper uses fractional integration methods to measure the degree of persistence in historical annual data on the world population over the period 1800-2016. The analysis is carried out for the original series, and also for its log transformation and its growth rate. The results indicate that...

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Persistence in UK historical data on life expectancy

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Infante, Juan; Rio, Marta del; … - 2023

This paper provides estimates of persistence in historical UK data on life expectancy applying fractional integration methods to both an annual series from 1842 to 2019 and a 5-year average from 1543 to 2019. The results indicate that the former exhibits an upward trend and is persistent but...

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Skewness preferences : evidence from online poker

Dertwinkel-Kalt, Markus; Kasinger, Johannes; Schneider, … - 2024

We test for skewness preferences in a large set of observational panel data on online poker games (n=4,450,585). Each … decision-makers. Individuals reveal a strong and robust preference for skewness, which is inconsistent with expected utility … theory. The effect of skewness is most pronounced among experienced and unsuccessful players but remains significant in all …

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