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This paper evaluates the strength of social and economic forces that affect the pressure to emigrate 'out of Africa' for four distinctly different African countries (Morocco, Egypt, Senegal and Ghana). In general, great expectations about attaining a higher living standard and expected low job...
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What determines remittances – altruism or enlightened self-interest - and do remittances trigger additional migration? These two questions are examined empirically in Egypt, Turkey and Morocco for households with family members living abroad. Results show, first, that one cannot clearly...
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factor. Second, we specify the overall volatility as a generalized autoregressive conditional heteroscedasticity (GARCH …
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univariate volatility models (including HEAVY and Realized GARCH models), using daily returns from the S&P 500, DJIA, FTSE and … result, albeit less strong, holds when compared to combined density forecasts based on equal weights. In addition, VaR … estimates improve a t the short horizon, in particular when compared to estimates based on equal weights or to the VaR estimates …
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) does not lead the entire day. Spreads, the number of trades and volatility can explain almost half of the intraday …
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We study the impact of private information on volatility in financial markets. We develop a comprehensive framework to … private information on prices and the effects of public information on volatility. Using a high-frequency 30-year U … statistically and economically significant explanatory variables for volatility. Private information is more important than public …
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We study the impact of private information on volatility in financial markets. We develop a comprehensive framework to … private information on prices and the effects of public information on volatility. Using a high-frequency 30-year U … statistically and economically significant explanatory variables for volatility. Private information is more important than public …
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