En este documento se presentan de forma breve los principales usos de las estadísticas de precios de consumo, prestando especial atención a la predicción de la inflación mediante modelos econométricos. También se realizan algunas propuestas de cara a aumentar la utilidad del índice de...

Seasonal anomalies (calendar effects) may be loosely referred to as the tendency forfinancial asset returns to display systematic patterns at certain times of the day, week,month or year. Two popular calendar effects are investigated for African stock returns:the month-of-the-year and the...

A central problem in estimating per unit costs of production originates from the fact that most farms producemultiple outputs and standard farm-accounting data are only available at the whole-farm level. The seeminglyunrelated regression (SUR) approach is used to estimate per unit production...

This dissertation is composed of four articles describing inference and visualization of periodic sequences.In the first article, a nonparametric method is proposed for estimating the period and values of a periodic sequence when the data are evenly spaced in time. Theperiod is estimated by a...

Das Thema dieser Arbeit ist der Einfluss von Medienberichterstattung auf wirtschaftliche und politische Einstellungen. Aufgabe war es, die Interaktion zwischen politischem oder wirtschaftlichem Subjekt, den Medien als ?bermittler von Information und der Realwelt empirisch zu untersuchen. Aus...