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Friedrich, Silke - 2010

xii, 116 p. : ill. A print copy of this thesis is available through the UO Libraries. Search the library catalog for the location and call number.

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Economic uncertainty and divisive politics: evidence from the "dos Españas"

García-Uribe, Sandra; Mueller, Hannes; Sanz, Carlos

Este artículo utiliza las hemerotecas de dos periódicos para estimar el índice de incertidumbre sobre las políticas económicas —Economic Policy Uncertainty (EPU)—en España en 1905-1945, un período de gran polarización política. Encontramos que el estallido de la Guerra Civil en 1936...

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Theory of job search. Unemployment-participation tradeoff and spatial search with asymmetric changes of the wage distribution

Aldashev, Alisher - 2007

the one hand, lower reservation wages reduce unemployment duration, but on the other hand, agents have shorter spells of …

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The nature of unemployment in urban Ethiopia

Serneels, Pieter - 2004

ofincidence and duration and find that most variables have the same effect on both.Unemployment is concentrated among relatively … well-educated first time job seekerswho come from the middle classes. Mean duration of unemployment is close to fouryears …

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Competing Risk Proportional Hazard Models of Farm Service Agency Direct Operating Loans

Dixon, Bruce L.; Ahrendsen, Bruce L.; Foianini, Monica; … - 2008

The USDA Farm Service Agency (FSA) direct farm loan program is designed to provide credit to family-sized farms unable to obtain credit from conventional sources at reasonable rates and terms despite having sufficient cash flow to repay and an ability to fully securitize the loan. FSA policy...

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The Singularity of the Efficiency Bound of the Mixed Proportional Hazard Model

Ridder, Geert; Woutersen, Tiemen - 2001

We reconsider the efficiency bound for the semi-parametric Mixed Proportional Hazard (MPH) model with parametric baseline hazard and regression function. This bound was first derived by Hahn (1994). One of his results is that if the baseline hazard is Weibull, the efficiency bound is singular,...

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A Good Time to Stay Out? Strikes and the Business Cycle

Devereux, Paul J.; Hart, Robert A. - 2008

In this paper, we compile a unique historical dataset that records strike activity in theBritish engineering industry from 1920 to 1970. These data have the advantage ofcontaining a fairly homogenous set of companies and workers, covering a long periodwith varying labour market conditions,...

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Implied Equity Duration: A New Measure of Equity Risk

Dechow, Patricia M.; Sloan, Richard G.; Soliman, Mark T. - 2004

Duration is an important and well-established risk characteristic for fixed income securities. We use recent … developments in financial statement analysis research to construct a measure of duration for equity securities. We find that the … volatility and stock beta are both positively correlated with equity duration. Moreover, estimates of common shocks to expected …

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Multi-level zero-inflated Poisson regression modelling of correlated count data with excess zeros

Lee, AH; Wang, K; Scott, JA; Yau, KKW; McLachlan, GJ - 2006

Count data with excess zeros relative to a Poisson distribution are common in many biomedical applications. A popular approach to the analysis of such data is to use a zero-inflated Poisson (ZIP) regression model. Often, because of the hierarchical Study design or the data collection procedure,...

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Die Ermittlung des Conversion Factors im Futures-Handel

Wöster, Christoph - 2005

einer duration-basierten Analyse ermitteln. Die ökonomischen Konsequenzen werden auf der Grundlage der Arbitragetheorie …

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