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), we survey information on outward investors from Hong Kong and Singapore with the aim of illuminating the implications of …
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, classification has been done manually. If it were possible to combine new computational tools and administrative wage records to … information about the changing occupational composition of the labor market. This paper examines the potential to assign …
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period based on actual statutory and regulatory language. Our classification of scope of practice laws solves an important …
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This paper: outlines an algorithm for concording U.S. ten-digit Harmonized System export and import codes over time; describes the concordances we construct for 1989 to 2004; and provides Stata code that can be used to construct similar concordances for arbitrary beginning and ending years from 1989...
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used trade classification algorithms. This result is due in part to regulations which require short sales be executed on an … as to measures that rely upon trade classification, such as the probability of informed trading (PIN) metric …
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previous classification efforts is that we employ an extensive data base on market-determined parallel exchange rates. Our … 'natural' classification algorithm leads to a stark reassessment of the post-war history of exchange rate arrangements. When … the official categorization is a form of peg, roughly half the time our classification reveals the true underlying …
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We measure and examine data error in health, education and income statistics used to construct the Human Development Index. We identify three sources of data error which are due to (i) data updating, (ii) formula revisions and (iii) thresholds to classify a country's development status. We...
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. Estimators that incorporate more information about the errors, such as aggregate underreporting rates, tend to be more robust to …
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Almost $10 trillion is benchmarked to Morgan Stanley Capital International's Developed, Emerging, Frontier, and standalone market indexes. Reclassifications from one index to another require thousands of investors to decide how to react. We study a comprehensive sample of past reclassifications...
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