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Signals from housing and lending booms
Bunda, Irina; Ca' Zorzi, Michele - 2009
The contribution of this paper is to revisit the Early Warning System (EWS) literature by analysing selected episodes of financial market crisis, i.e. those preceded by a spell of credit and real estate expansions. The aim is to disentangle instances when this constitutes a natural phenomenon...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011605140
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From transition crises to macroeconomic stability? Lessons from a crises early warning system for Eastern European and CIS countries
Kittelmann, Kristina; Tirpak, Marcel; Schweickert, Rainer; … - 2006
This paper uses a Markov regime-switching model to assess the vulnerability of a series of Central and Eastern European countries (i.e. Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovak Republic) and two CIS countries (i.e., Russia and Ukraine) during the period 19932004. For the new EU member states in Central...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272979
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An early warning system to predict speculative house price bubbles
Dreger, Christian; Kholodilin, Konstantin A. - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 7 (2013) 2013-8, pp. 1-26
In this paper, the authors construct country-specific chronologies of the house price bubbles for 12 OECD countries over the period 1969:Q1-2009:Q4. These chronologies are obtained using a combination of a fundamental approach and a filter approach. The resulting speculative bubble chronology is...
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An early warning system to predict the house price bubbles
Dreger, Christian; Kholodilin, Konstantin A. - 2011
In this paper, we construct the country-specific chronologies of the house price bubbles for 12 OECD countries over the period 1969:Q1- 2010:Q2. These chronologies are obtained using a combination of a fundamental and a filter approaches. The resulting speculative bubble chronology is the one...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286622
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Risk Communication and public perception of technological hazards. First Volume
Recchia, Virginia - 1999
Research on risk communication relates basic risk perception studies to the formulation of policies, the currently … communication is a relatively new field based on a sociological approach. The discipline comes from risk perception studies … plant of petroleum products. The method used for the analysis foresees a review of the main findings about risk perception …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011608544
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Risk Communication and public perception of technological hazards. Second Volume
Recchia, Virginia - 1999
Research on risk communication relates basic risk perception studies to the formulation of policies, the currently … communication is a relatively new field based on a sociological approach. The discipline comes from risk perception studies … plant of petroleum products. The method used for the analysis foresees a review of the main findings about risk perception …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011608545
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Overconfidence and technology adoption in health care
Comin, Diego; Skinner, Jonathan; Staiger, Douglas - 2022
hospitals in the rate of adoption between 2002-2006, and a strong reversal from 2006-2013. We find that perception bias explains …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014480649
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Effect of perceptions and behaviour on access to and use of financial service: Evidence from South Africa
Annim, Samuel Kobina; Arun, Thankom; Kostov, Philip - 2012
This study investigates the effect of financial perception and behaviour on; (a) general accounts and services, (b … three estimations support the hypothesis that financial perception has a greater effect on the decision to access and use … behaviour is greater than financial perception when making decisions on the take-up and use of investment financial services. It …
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The Effectiveness of Capital Adequacy Measures in Predicting Bank Distress
Mayes, David G.; Stremmel, Hanno - 2014
Our concern in this paper is two-fold: first to see whether the determinants of bank distress and failure have been any different in the GFC from previous years: second to see whether simple measures of capital adequacy outperform their risk-weighted counterparts as predictors, despite the focus...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011689962
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Evaluating profiling as a means of allocating government services
Berger, Mark C.; Black, Dan; Smith, Jeffrey - 2000
This paper considers the use of statistical profiling to allocate persons to alternative options within government programs, or to participation or non-participation in programs. Profiling has been used in the United States to allocate unemployment insurance (UI) claimants to reemployment...
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