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We analyze exchange rate volatility in the Visegrad Four countries in the course of their abandoning tight regimes for … generalized error distribution. The overall findings are that volatility path dependence has a limited effect on exchange rate … developments and introduction of floating regimes tends to increase exchange rate volatility. During the period of flexible regimes …
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analyze recent developments in the volatility of exchange rates of the Central European countries (the Visegrad Group) and a … exchange rate volatility: squared returns parametric model and GARCH. Both methods provide identical results for the currencies … of the Visegrad group: an increase in volatility after a floating exchange rate regime was introduced. The case of the …
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fractal power laws and scaling will be explained. The main part focuses on the estimation of the tail index as a scaling …
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Guttman (1947) developed a scaling method in which the items measuring an attribute can be ordered according to the … strength of the attribute. The Guttman scaling model assumes that every member of the population belongs to a scale type and … contingency tables, pi-star can be applied to latent class models, including scaling models for dichotomous data. This study …
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In July of 2002, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act was passed by Congress, including section 404 which requires the auditors to test and opine on the company's internal controls. Since that time there has been much debate about whether the intended benefits of increased investor confidence and financial...
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processes, this study developed theoretical constructs for scaling and amalgamation of the different performance measures, and … for analyzing the different kinds of trade-offs. The scaling of performance measures yields a consistent or dimensionless … alternative methods for scaling and amalgamation. Also, recognizing that project outcomes are not always known with certainty, the …
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Standardization reduces complexity and increases predictability in a global supply chain. This predictability can be exploited for capacity management and resource allocation to meet client demands and achieve cost expectations. On this foundation of predictability a supply chain can expand,...
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Traditional macroeconometric models of the Australian economy estimate the behaviour of wage and price inflation separately, thereby ignoring the possibility that there is a contemporaneous relationship between these two variables. This thesis follows a recent trend emerging in other small open...
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-term volatility of the real exchange rate with its slow convergence to parity. Further, the drift and diffusion of the real exchange …
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We examine two distinct and important dimensions (e.g. symmetry vs. asymmetry and linearity vs. nonlinearity) of price …
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