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Refining the estimation of illicit drug consumptions from wastewater analysis: Co-analysis of prescription pharmaceuticals and uncertainty assessment

Lai, Foon Yin; Ort, Christoph; Gartner, Coral; Carter, Steve - 2011

Wastewater analysis is a promising monitoring tool to estimate illicit drug consumption at the community level. The advantage of this technique over traditional surveys and other surveillance methods has been emphasized in recent studies. However, there are methodological challenges that can...

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Retooling the Corporate Brand: A Foucauldian perspective on normalisation and differentiation

Leitch, S. R.; Motion, J. - 2007

normalization and differentiation in corporate branding. The mainstream response within the corporate marketing literature to … addressing this tension is exemplified by Deephouse who argues for the identification of a ‘strategic balance point’35 which … normalization and differentiation must be managed within each of these contexts, and that the brand positioning may therefore vary …

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Adjustment is Much Slower than You Think

Caballero, Ricardo J.; Engel, Eduardo M.R.A. - 2003

In most instances, the dynamic response of monetary and other policies to shocks is infrequent and lumpy. The same holds for the microeconomic response of some of the most important economic variables, such as investment, labor demand, and prices. We show that the standard practice of estimating...

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Impact of crude-oil price volatility on economic activities: An empirical investigation in the Thai economy

School of Economics and Finance

This paper empirically examines the impact of oil price volatility on key macroeconomic indicators of Thailand. Following Andersen et al. [2004. Analytical evaluation of volatility forecasts. International Economic Review 45(4), 1079-1110], quarterly oil price volatility is measured by using the...

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Demystifying the supply of capital and labour in a nation?s economic chain

Zhou, Jie; Picken, David; Liu, Chunlu - 2010

Public capital has been considered to be the wheels of economic activity in a nation or region. The reverse effect, the contribution of economic growth to public capital, is also worth analysis. The non-structural vector auto-regression (VAR) approach is performed for the Australian economy...

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Dynamic effects of persistent shocks

Alloza, Mario; Gonzalo, Jesús; Sanz, Carlos

We show that several shocks identifi ed without restrictions from a model, and frequently used in the empirical literature, display some persistence. We demonstrate that the two leading methods to recover impulse responses to shocks (moving average representations and local projections) treat...

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Recent changes in investment in Spain from a macroeconomic perspective

Aguilar, Pablo; Ghirelli, Corinna; Jiménez García, Blanca

Rationale Cyclical fluctuations in investment are usually sharper than fluctuations in other components of aggregate demand. This article aims to analyse, based on an econometric model, the role played by interest rates, demand and agents’ confidence (the drivers traditionally studied in the...

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Econometrics issues in forward-looking monetary models

Mavroeidis, Sophocles; Hendry, David - 2002

inflation dynamics. In this thesis, we address the issues of identification which have been overlooked due to the incompleteness … inference under weak identification, pertaining to situations in which only functions of the parameters of interest are …-modelled variables cannot be weakly exogenous for the parameters of interest, and that they are informative about the identification and …

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Factors influencing the identification of it indirect costs: A case study

Ghoneim, A - 2008

resource company and confirms the call for a more robust identification process. Inaddition the paper maps each indirect costs … factor to the lifecycle stage(s) in which it occurs andpresents the factors that influence the quality of the identification …

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Network effects, compatibility, and adoption of standards

Grajek, Michał - 2005

best of our knowledge, this is the first model that facilitates the identification in the case of direct network effects …

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