Using households with a pair of male-female siblings from DHS surveys, this paper estimates gender based within-household inequality in immunization status of children (aged 1-5 years) from Bangladesh, India, Nepal and Pakistan. I find substantial level of gender based within-household...

According to World Public Opinion poll, no country leader enjoyed worldwide trust in 2008. Only the leaders of China, Iran, and Russia received consistently higher trust ratings domestically than abroad. Not incidentally, these countries also score low in political and press freedoms. We build a...

According to market heterogeneity hypothesis, financial markets are characterized by the presence of heterogeneity of participants with different sensibilities to different time scales. Although Wavelet based Value at Risk is able to represent dealing frequencies of market participants, it...

In this the paper we investigate the oil price volatility, by studying the causal relationships between different volatilities captured at different time scales. We first decompose the oil price volatility at various scales of resolution or frequency ranges by using wavelet analysis. We then...

This paper examines the effects of the current financial crisis on the correlations of four international banking stocks. We find that in the beginning of the crisis banks generally show a transition to a higher correlation followed by a dramatic decline towards the end of 2008. These findings...

This paper compares the different dynamics of simple sum monetary aggregates and PLS indexes over the business cycle, which have turning points at economic expansion and recession phases. We also investigates the long run relationship between monetary aggregates and GDP, to utilize the data in...

This study gives an overview of different methodologies related to gravity model analysis in Bangladesh trade flow. A pooled cross section and time series data were analyzed to incorporate the country specific heterogeneity in country pair trading partners. The trade flows are justified by the...

In this paper, we study the oil price formation for the purpose of understanding price reactions of OPEC member countries to changes in the exchange rate of the US dollar and prices of other members in the short run. The results suggested that there is a partial impact of exchange rates...

This paper will take Taiwan as an example to investigate the closeness-turnout relation. Instead of using actual electoral data, we utilize the information provided by pre-election polls to construct the measure for electoral closeness. The empirical result of Taiwan shows when the race is...

This paper proposes an augmented learning model from a neuroscience perspective. This model contains brain activity data of the orbitofrontal cortex as a predictive variable of human strategic behavior. A Bayesian 3-layer perceptron, which shows the complex relationship between decision factors,...