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Mean and Bold?
Witte, Kristof De; Dijkgraaf, Elbert - 2007
association started with a voluntary benchmarking aimed to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of the sector. Secondly … efficiency of these two evolutions. In particular, we adapt Free Disposal Hull (FDH) to estimate robust and conditional non …-oriented efficiency estimates. Parametric COLS (Fourier) tests show the robustness of the model with respect to the specification and its …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325538
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Transmission of Government Spending Shocks in the Euro Area : Time Variation and Driving Forces
Kirchner, Markus; Cimadomo, Jacopo; Hauptmeier, Sebastian - 2010
This paper provides new evidence on the effects of government spending shocks and the fiscal transmission mechanism in the euro area for the period 1980-2008. Our contribution is two-fold. First, we investigate changes in the macroeconomic impact of government spending shocks using time-varying...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014198031
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The Causal Links between Aid and Government Expenditures
Marc, Lukasz - 2014
The most recent literature on aid effectiveness finds a positive effect of aid on growth. To the extent that aid goes through the budget, this either reflects an aid-financed increase in government expenditures (quantity effect) or an improvement in the use of government resources as a result of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014149694
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Transformed Polynomials for Nonlinear Autoregressive Models of the Conditional Mean
Blasques, Francisco - 2012
This paper proposes a new set of transformed polynomial functions that provide a flexible setting for nonlinear autoregressive modeling of the conditional mean while at the same time ensuring the strict stationarity, ergodicity, fading memory and existence of moments of the implied stochastic...
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Decomposing Portfolio Value-at-Risk: A General Analysis
Hallerbach, Winfried G. - 1999
proposed estimation approach pairs intuitiveappeal with computational efficiency. We evaluate various alternative estimation …
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Nonparametric Estimation for Non-Homogeneous Semi-Markov Processes: An Application to Credit Risk
Monteiro, Andre; Smirnov, Georgi V.; Lucas, Andre - 2006
We propose procedures for estimating the time-dependent transition matrices for the general class of finite nonhomogeneous continuous-time semi-Markov processes. We prove the existence and uniqueness of solutions for the system of Volterra integral equations defining the transition matrices,...
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Extracting Business Cycles using Semi-parametric Time-varying Spectra with Applications to US Macroeconomic Time Series
Koopman, Siem Jan; Wong, Soon Yip - 2006
A growing number of empirical studies provides evidence that dynamic properties of macroeconomic time series have been changing over time. Model-based procedures for the measurement of business cycles should therefore allow model parameters to adapt over time. In this paper the time dependencies...
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Interquantile Expectation Regression
Barendse, Sander - 2017
We propose a semiparametric estimator to determine the effects of explanatory variables on the conditional interquantile expectation (IQE) of the random variable of interest, without specifying the conditional distribution of the underlying random variables. IQE is the expected value of the...
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Specification Testing of Production in a Stochastic Frontier Model
Guo, Xu; Li, Gao-Rong; McAleer, Michael; Wong, Wing-Keung - 2017
Parametric production frontier functions are frequently used in stochastic frontier models, but there do not seem to be any empirical test statistics for its plausibility. To bridge the gap in the literature, we develop two test statistics based on local smoothing and an empirical process,...
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Nonparametric Estimation for Non-Homogeneous Semi-Markov Processes : An Application to Credit Risk
Lucas, Andre - 2006
We propose procedures for estimating the time-dependent transition matrices for the general class of finite nonhomogeneous continuous-time semi-Markov processes. We prove the existence and uniqueness of solutions for the system of Volterra integral equations defining the transition matrices,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012733969