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A number of highly cited papers by Flyvbjerg and associates have shown that ex ante infrastructure appraisals tend to be overly optimistic. Ex post evaluations indicate a bias where investment costs are higher and benefits lower on average than predicted ex ante. These authors argue that the...
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Output gap is generally used in assessing both the inflationary pressures and the cyclical position of a nation’s economy. However, this variable is not observable and must be estimated. In this paper, we accomplish two tasks. First, we estimate the output gap for the United Arab Emirates...
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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...
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In this paper we introduce an analyzing procedure using the Kullback-Leibler information criteria (KLIC) as a statistical tool to evaluate and compare the predictive abilities of possibly misspecified density forecast models. The main advantage of this statistical tool is that we use the...
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Being able to choose most suitable volatility model and distribution specification is a more demanding task. This paper introduce an analyzing procedure using the Kullback-Leibler information criteria (KLIC) as a statistical tool to evaluate and compare the predictive abilities of possibly...
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Pepper is an important agriculture commodity especially for the state of Sarawak. It is important to forecast its price, as this could help the policy makers in coming up with production and marketing plan to improve the Sarawak’s economy as well as the farmers’welfare. In this paper, we...
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The demand for cash balances of financial intermediaries that establish contractual liabilities with credit-sensitive customers is characterized. As stated by Merton, the success of the business activities of such firms crucially depends on their credit quality, and hence, they are obliged to...
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Der vorliegende Beitrag untersucht aus einer mikroökonomischen Perspektive die Determinanten des Einkommens aus einer freiberuflichen Tätigkeit. Im Gegensatz zu bisherigen Veröffentlichungen stützen sich die Analysen auf eine primär zu den Freien Berufen erhobene neue Datenbasis...
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Die Studie untersucht die Einkommen und die Einkommensverteilung der Freien Berufe anhand der Mikrozensusergebnisse für … Mikrozensusangaben der insgesamt 800.000 Befragten aus einer Sonderauswertung für die Freien Berufe werden Einkommen und …-Selbständige) gegenübergestellt. Dem Einkommen und der Einkommensverteilung der selbständigen Frauen in Freien Berufen im Vergleich zu den Männern ist …
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Der vorliegende Beitrag untersucht aus einer mikroökonomischen Perspektive die Determinanten des Einkommens aus einer freiberuflichen Tätigkeit. Im Gegensatz zu bisherigen Veröffentlichungen stützen sich die Analysen auf eine primär zu den Freien Berufen erhobene neue Datenbasis...
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