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Occupational Classifications : A Machine Learning Approach
Ikudo, Akina - 2018
, classification has been done manually. If it were possible to combine new computational tools and administrative wage records to …
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Toward a Uniform Classification of Nurse Practitioner Scope of Practice Laws
McMichael, Benjamin J. - 2020
period based on actual statutory and regulatory language. Our classification of scope of practice laws solves an important …
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Classification, Detection and Consequences of Data Error : Evidence from the Human Development Index
Wolff, Hendrik - 2010
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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Concording U.S. Harmonized System Categories Over Time
Pierce, Justin R. - 2009
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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Short Sales and Trade Classification Algorithms
Asquith, Paul - 2008
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464489
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The Modern History of Exchange Rate Arrangements : A Reinterpretation
Reinhart, Carmen M. - 2002
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012469751
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Accounting for Outward Direct Investment from Hong Kong and Singapore : Who Controls What?
Low, Linda - 1996
After a brief introduction and examination of the economic rationale for accounting for foreign direct investment (FDI), we survey information on outward investors from Hong Kong and Singapore with the aim of illuminating the implications of accounting for such FDI by geographical source or by...
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Investing in the Presence of Massive Flows : The Case of MSCI Country Reclassifications
Burnham, Terence C. - 2017
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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The Country Chronologies to Exchange Rate Arrangements into the 21st Century : Will the Anchor Currency Hold?
Ilzetzki, Ethan - 2017
Detailed country-by-country chronologies are an informative companion piece to our paper "Exchange Arrangements Entering the 21st Century: Which Anchor Will Hold?," which provides a comprehensive history of anchor or reference currencies, exchange rate arrangements, and a new measure of foreign...
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Exchange Arrangements Entering the 21st Century : Which Anchor Will Hold?
Ilzetzki, Ethan - 2017
This paper provides a comprehensive history of anchor or reference currencies, exchange rate arrangements, and a new measure of foreign exchange restrictions for 194 countries and territories over 1946-2016. We find that the often-cited post-Bretton Woods transition from fixed to flexible...
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