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Since its debut into the islamic capital markets landscape in 2005, islamic Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) have not shown significant progress in attracting foreign investment, limiting their potential as the ideal asset class for the Shariah compliant investor. It was suggested that a...
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We analyze a new fluctuation test for constant correlation with respect to its properties and possible applications in …
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Se estudian las pérdidas de PBI a través de países originadas por crisis financieras. Las pérdidas se analizan en términos de frecuencia (número de eventos de pérdida) y severidad (monto de pérdida por cada evento). Se utiliza el enfoque de densidad total de las perdidas (enfoque LDA por...
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therefore analyze GDP losses in terms of frequency (number of loss events per period) and severity (loss per occurrence). Crises …' frequency, severity, and the associated global output losses over periods of five years are identified on the basis of Laeven … and Valencia(2008). Applying the Loss Distribution Approach used in insurance and operational risk theory and practice, we …
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severity (loss per occurrence). We perform the Loss Distribution Approach (LDA) to estimate a multi-country aggregate GDP loss …We study cross-country GDP losses due to financial crises in terms of frequency (number of loss events per period) and …
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This paper describes the application of contingent claims analysis (CCA) and systemic CCA to the top four commercial banks in Sweden. The balance sheet stress tests for four major banks were complemented with tests based on the CCA framework, a risk-adjusted balance sheet relating bank asset...
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A simple criterion based on the properties of the forecast error is presented to evaluate the accuracy of forecasts. The efficiency conditions of an optimization problem are used to show that under rational expectations the standard statistical conditions are necessary, but not sufficient to...
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Unlike conventional fiscal sustainability assessments, the Value-at-Risk approach developed in this paper explicitly captures the contribution of key risk variables to public sector vulnerability. In an illustrative application to Ecuador, the VaR approach confirms a significant risk of...
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This paper examines whether deviations from PPP are stationary in the presence of nonlinearity, and whether the adjustment toward PPP is symmetric from above and below. Using alternative nonlinear models, our results support mean reversion and asymmetric adjustment dynamics. We find differences...
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