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Flexible mixture-amount models for business and industry using Gaussian processes
Ruseckaite, Aiste; Fok, Dennis; Goos, Peter - 2016
Many products and services can be described as mixtures of ingredients whose proportions sum to one. Specialized models have been developed for linking the mixture proportions to outcome variables, such as preference, quality and liking. In many scenarios, only the mixture proportions matter for...
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The R-package MitISEM : efficient and robust simulation procedures for Bayesian inference
Basturk, Nalan; Grassi, Stefano; Hoogerheide, Lennart; … - 2015
This paper presents the R-package MitISEM (mixture of t by importance sampling weighted expectation maximization) which provides an automatic and flexible two-stage method to approximate a non-elliptical target density kernel -- typically a posterior density kernel -- using an adaptive mixture...
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Efficiency and productivity of Italian tourist destinations : a quantitative estimation based on data envelopment analysis and the Malmquist method
Cracolici, Maria Francesca; Nijkamp, Peter; Cuffaro, Miranda - 2006
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Efficiency and productivity of Italian tourist destinations : a quantitative estimation based on data envelopment analysis and the Malmquist method
Cracolici, Maria Francesca; Nijkamp, Peter - 2006
This paper aims to provide a statistical analysis of the relative economic performance of Italian tourist areas. It uses two modelling approaches to estimate the competitiveness of these regions, viz. data envelopment analysis (DEA) and the Malmquist method. Our results show that the...
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Unravelling urban advantages : a meta-analysis of agglomeration economies
Donovan, Stuart; Graaff, Thomas de; Groot, Henri L. F. de; … - 2021
A large body of literature considers the productive advantages of cities, or "agglomeration economies". Most empirical studies report positive agglomeration economies, although large variation exists in the magnitude of estimates. We use a meta-analysis to explore this variation, drawing on...
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Forecasting aggregate productivity using information from firm-level data
Bartelsman, Eric J.; Wolf, Zoltán - 2009
This paper contributes to the productivity literature by using results from firm-level productivity studies to improve … forecasts of macro-level productivity growth. The paper employs current research methods on estimating firm-level productivity … to build times-series components that capture the joint dynamics of the firm-level productivity and size distributions …
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Food security and agricultural sustainability : a comparative multi-country assessment of critical success factors
Nijkamp, Peter; Vindigni, Gabriella - 2000
(bothfarming and agro-food). An attempt is made to explain differences intotal factor productivity in agriculture indifferent … identifyingcritical success factors in agriculture with a view tofuture food security objectives. …
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Food security and agricultural sustainability : a comparative multi-country assessment of critical success factors
Nijkamp, Peter; Vindigni, Gabriella - 2000
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A note on "continuous invertibility and stable QML estimation of the EGARCH(1,1) model"
Blasques, Francisco; Gorgi, Paolo; Koopman, Siem Jan; … - 2015
We revisit Wintenberger (2013) on the continuous invertibility of the EGARCH(1,1) model. We note that the definition of continuous invertibility adopted in Wintenberger (2013) may not always be sufficient to deliver strong consistency of the QMLE. We also take the opportunity to provide other...
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Regularized estimation of structural instability in factor models : the US macroeconomy and the great moderation
Callot, Laurent; Kristensen, Johannes Tang - 2015
This paper shows that the parsimoniously time-varying methodology of Callot and Kristensen (2015) can be applied to factor models. We apply this method to study macroeconomic instability in the US from 1959:1 to 2006:4 with a particular focus on the Great Moderation. Models with parsimoniously...
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