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Despite their widespread use as predictors of the spot price of oil, oil futures prices tend to be less accurate in the mean-squared prediction error sense than no-change forecasts. This result is driven by the variability of the futures price about the spot price, as captured by the oil futures...
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We show that the effects of overfitting and underfitting a vector autoregressive (VAR) model are strongly asymmetric for VAR summary statistics involving higher-order dynamics (such as impulse response functions, variance decompositions, or long-run forecasts) . Underfit models often...
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We propose a Bayesian framework in which the uncertainty about the half-life of deviations from purchasing power parity can be quantified. Based on the responses to a survey study, we propose a prior probability distribution for the half-life under the recent float intended to capture widely...
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peculiarities of education, research and business integration performance. In order to disclose integration trends of science … governments , business incubators, regional development agencies and others. However, science, study, and the strategic priorities …, education, and business, external and internal factor, SSGG analysis has been performed. There has been made an empirical …
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-communist transformation in Russia, I address the questions of organizational adaptation and change in business practices resulting from the … changing role of the state in the economy and society, focusing specifically on the problem of contract enforcement among small … firms. The main source of data was the empirical research that I conducted in St.Petersburg, Russia, where I interviewed …
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sustainability and the appropriate strategies required to improve business sustainability. In addition, there are international calls … business sustainability is being incorporated into undergraduate business and management courses in Australian universities … skills will influence the extent to which business sustainability will be achieved. The findings demonstrate that more than …
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This paper focuses on the personal traits of locus of control and innovation and examines their impact on business … when measured by the decision to build a business from scratch. A major contribution of this study is that it validates the …
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Family-owned businesses represent the majority of business in the United States. As consumers and employees, we are … compelled to their sense of trustworthiness that all too often disappears in the business world. Our economy depends on the … family-owned businesses exist as evident by specific transitions in terms of ownership, family and business. Therefore, the …
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An executive's firm-specific human capital is argued to be a critical resource to the executive's current organization, but because of its lack of transferability, is of little value outside the firm. We argue that there exists a form of firm-based knowledge, which we term firm-explicit human...
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by mapping business requirements to specific call center resource options, determining the optimal call routing structure …
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