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In 1978, Roger Koenker and Gilbert Bassett, Jr. introduced a new econometric estimation method and entitled it quantile regression. Since then, many subsequent authors have elaborated and extended the underlying theoretical framework. Other contributions have successfully applied the procedure...
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Measuring the contribution of different markets to the price discovery process of a common asset has been the subject of many research studies in the last decade. In particular the newly developed derivatives markets have given rise to an increasing number of empirical studies examining the...
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environmental crime rates. With a view to validating the economic theory of crime, there is clear evidence that the "calculus of …
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Germany has been an immigration country for more than 30 years now, although many politicians claim the opposite and many people in Germany are inclined to agree with their assessment. However, it is the actual experience with immigration, and not what people would like to experience, which...
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In an increasingly competitive environment, firms have to optimally adjust both their allocation of input factors and their technology portfolio. The latter determines economies of scope and scale in future research and production. The aim of this dissertation is to achieve better insight into...
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Neoclassical analysis of the labor market and its institutions. A systematic development of the theory of labor supply …
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Background: Health-care institutions have looked to business for models to respond to the requirement for reform. This has changed the perspective of institutions that were founded on charitable principles, and managed with liberal employment policies and deficit budgeting. Using lesions from...
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. The second section of my paper provides an academic review of the literature, focusing on econometric theory that tests …
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heteroscedasticity and autocorrelation in asset returns are the primary sources of test mis-specification in these linearity …-in-the-mean hypothesis tests. To address this problem, an innovative approach is proposed to control heteroscedasticity and autocorrelation … the theme of the previous two studies, the effects of heteroscedasticity and autocorrelation are examined in the portfolio …
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