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Microsimulation - A Survey of Methods and Applications for Analyzing Economic and Social Policy
Merz, Joachim - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1994
This essential dimensions of microsimulation as an instrument to analyze and forecast the individual impacts of … alternative economic and social policy measures are surveyed in this study. The basic principles of microsimulation, which is a …-section and life-cycle) approaches are compared to one another. Present and past developments of microsimulation models and their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005260287
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Using sentiment to predict GDP growth and stock returns
Guzman, Giselle C. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
This study sheds new light on the question of whether or not sentiment surveys, and the expectations derived from them, are relevant to forecasting economic growth and stock returns, and whether they contain information that is orthogonal to macroeconomic and financial data. I examine 16...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009647230
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An inflation expectations horserace
Guzman, Giselle C. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
For decades, the academic literature has focused on three survey measures of expected inflation: the Livingston Survey, the Survey of Professional Forecasters, and the Michigan Survey. While these measures have been useful in developing models of forecasting inflation, the data are low frequency...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009647457
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Time Use and Time Budgets – Improvements, Future Challenges and Recommendations
Merz, Joachim - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
“Time-use statistics offer a unique tool for exploring a wide range of policy concerns including social change; division of labour; allocation of time for household work; the estimation of the value of household production; transportation; leisure and recreation; pension plans; and health-care...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005011938
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Zeitverwendungsforschung und Mediennutzung
Merz, Joachim - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
The possibilities of time use research approaches for the analysis of the use of media is the focus of this study. After describing previous studies of media analyses time use research is characterised and the particular suitability of its central surveying instruments – stylised survey...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005011955
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MICSIM : Concept, Developments and Applications of a PC-Microsimulation Model for Research and Teaching
Merz, Joachim - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1995
empirically based level microsimulation models were developed and increasingly used for economic and social policy impact analyses …. Though microsimulation is known and applied (mainly by experts), an easy to use and powerful PC microsimulation model is hard … to find. The overall aim of this study and of MICSIM - A PC Microsimulation Model is to describe and offer such a user …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005026623
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Imputación de ingresos laborales: Una aplicación con encuestas de empleo en México
Rodriguez-Oreggia, Eduardo; Lopez-Videla, Bruno - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
The aim of this paper is to make imputation of earnings in observations with missing values in the Encuesta Nacional de Ocupaciones y Empleo (ENOE), and also to analyze a possible bias in human capital estimations from ignoring such missings. We present imputations by two methods, and also a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011109800
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Klassifizierung von Hedge-Fonds durch das k-means Clustering von Self-Organizing Maps: eine renditebasierte Analyse zur Selbsteinstufungsgüte und Stiländerungsproblematik
Deetz, Marcus; Poddig, Thorsten; Varmaz, Armin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
problem and assures a consistent clustering of neighboring output units, and therefore an objective classification scheme …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005108467
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Pareto-Inefficiencies in Intrahousehold-Decision-Making: Empirical evidence from Germany
Stöwhase, Sven - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
from the German income tax statistic and conducting microsimulation analysis it refutes the assumption of pareto …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005835876
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Microdata Adjustment by the Minimum Information Loss Principle
Merz, Joachim - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1994
practical analysis of microdata, microdata as a singular cross or longitudinal sample or within (static) microsimulation, is to ….000 households and 240 restrictions simultaneously to be achieved within the Sfb 3 microsimulation model show that this MN procedure … also succesfully applied in a described microsimulation analyses of the recent 1990 German tax reform investigating the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005619520