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The international guide to securities market indices
Shilling, Henry - 1996
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004316333
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Gender-based Indicators in Human Development: Correcting for ‘Missing Women’
Nathan, Hippu Salk Kristle - eSocialSciences - 2008
Gender Development Index and Gender Empowerment Measure are two gender-based indicators provided by the United Nations …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005528100
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La distinction reloaded: Returns to education, family background, cultural and social capital in Germany
Krenz, Astrid - Center for European, Governance and Economic … - 2010
The German educational system finds itself being criticized by the OECD in its Programme for International Student Assessment. Family background would heavily influence children's academic achievements. A child stemming from a high class family has a 3.1 times higher chance to go to secondary...
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US Corporate Bond Yield Spread. A default risk debate
Shah, Syed Noaman; Kebewar, Mazen - Deutsche Zentralbibliothek für … - 2013
According to theoretical models of valuing risky corporate securities, risk of default is primary component in overall yield spread. However, sizable empirical literature considers it otherwise by giving more importance to non-default risk factors. Current study empirically attempts to provide...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010957801
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Interpretation of Regressions with Multiple Proxies
Lubotsky, Darren; Wittenberg, Martin - Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics - 2001
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010928208
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Removing Biases in Computed Returns: An Analysis of Bias in Equally-Weighted Return Indexes of REITs
Fisher, Lawrence; Weaver, Daniel G.; Webb, Gwendolyn - In: International Real Estate Review 15 (2012) 1, pp. 43-71
bias in this index, two trends are evident: first, there is less overall bias than in non-REIT stocks, and second, the bias … and Australia. The results support the hypothesized relationship between index bias and market micro-structure environment. …
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An automatic-democratic approach to weight setting for the new human development index
Tofallis, Chris - In: Journal of Population Economics 26 (2013) 4, pp. 1325-1345
Perhaps the most difficult aspect of constructing a multi-dimensional index is that of choosing weights for the … components. This problem is often bypassed by adopting the ‘agnostic’ option of equal weights, as in the human development index …
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Improved forecasting with leading indicators: the principal covariate index
Heij, Heij, C. - Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus … - 2007
We propose a new method of leading index construction that combines the need for data compression with the objective of … forecasting. This so-called principal covariate index is constructed to forecast growth rates of the Composite Coincident Index …. The forecast performance is compared with an alternative index based on principal components and with the Composite …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010731870
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US Corporate Bond Yield Spread: A default risk debate
Shah, Syed Muhammad Noaman Ahmed; Kebewar, Mazen - HAL - 2013
According to theoretical models of valuing risky corporate securities, risk of default is primary component in overall yield spread. However, sizable empirical literature considers it otherwise by giving more importance to non-default risk factors. Current study empirically attempts to provide...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010899951
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Removing biases in computed returns
Fisher, Lawrence; Weaver, Daniel; Webb, Gwendolyn - In: Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting 35 (2010) 2, pp. 137-161
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008526430