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Measurement error in education and growth regressions
Portela, Miguel; Alessie, Rob; Teulings, Coen N. - 2005
The perpetual inventory method used for the construction of education data per country leads to systematic measurement … education level between census data and observations constructed from enrolment data. We discuss a methodology for correcting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011335189
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A theory of socioeconomic disparities in health over the life cycle
Galama, Titus J.; Van Kippersluis, Hans - 2010
Understanding of the substantial disparity in health between low and high socioeconomic status (SES) groups is hampered by the lack of a suffciently comprehensive theoretical framework to interpret empirical facts and to predict yet untested relations. We present a life-cycle model that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011381036
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Discretionary authority and prioritizing in government agencies
Schinkel, Maarten-Pieter; Tóth, Lukás; Tuinstra, Jan - 2015
Government agencies typically have a certain freedom to choose among different possible courses of action. This paper studies agency decision-making on priorities in a principal-agent framework with multi-tasking. The agency head (the principal) has discretion over part of the agency's budget to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010532608
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Management science, economics and finance : a connection
Chang, Chia-Lin; McAleer, Michael; Wong, Wing Keung - 2016
This paper provides a brief review of the connecting literature in management science, economics and finance, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011479822
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Asymmetries in conditional mean and variance : modelling stock returns by asMA-asQGARCH
Brännäs, Kurt; Gooijer, Jan G. de - 2000
The asymmetric moving average model (asMA) is extended to allow forasymmetric quadratic conditional heteroskedasticity (asQGARCH). Theasymmetric parametrization of the conditional variance encompassesthe quadratic GARCH model of Sentana (1995). We introduce a framework fortesting asymmetries in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011303289
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Big Data, computational science, economics, finance, marketing, management, and psychology : connections
Chang, Chia-Lin; McAleer, Michael; Wong, Wing Keung - 2018
The paper provides a review of the literature that connects Big Data, Computational Science, Economics, Finance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011794391
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Decision sciences, economics, finance, business, computing, and big data : connections
Chang, Chia-Lin; McAleer, Michael; Wong, Wing Keung - 2018
This paper provides a review of some connecting literature in Decision Sciences, Economics, Finance, Business …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011807780
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Autonomous, Connected, Electric Shared vehicles (ACES) and public finance : an explorative analysis
Adler, Martin W; Peer, Stefanie; Sinozic, Tanja - 2019
This paper discusses the implications of autonomous-connected-electric-shared vehicles (ACES) for public finance, which … depends on the implementation of tailored public finance policies. In particular, the introduction of road tolls in line with …-dependencies, and the risk of lock-in effects in sub-optimal public finance regimes, further research and near-term policy action …
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Fiscal sustainability, volatility and oil wealth : a stochastic analysis of fiscal spending rules
Wijnbergen, Sweder van; Budina, Nina - 2011
Whether fiscal policy is sustainable depends on a government's future revenue and expenditure streams, both of which are highly uncertain. In commodity-rich countries, this problem is intensified by unpredictable and volatile commodity prices. We show how spending rules for oil income and...
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Just how good are the top three journals in finance? : an assessment based on quantity and quality citations
Chang, Chia-ling; McAleer, Michael - 2014
The paper is concerned with ranking academic journal quality and research impact in Finance, based on the widely … journals in the ISI category of "Business - Finance" using quantifiable Research Assessment Measures (RAMs). The analysis … the 89 ISI journals in Finance makes it clear that there are three leading journals in Finance, namely Journal of Finance …
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