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types of debt and financial assets held conditional on holding the different types of debt and assets. The analysis suggests … amounts of both debt (unsecured and secured) and assets (property and non-housing), even after conditioning on the probability … the household balance sheet, i.e. liabilities and assets. Additionally, we allow the influence of social interaction on …
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Conceptual and applied studies assessing the linkage between economic freedom and corruption expect that economic freedom boosts economic growth, improves income, and reduces levels of corruption. However, most of them have concentrated on developed and developing groups, while the Association...
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Conceptual and applied studies assessing the linkage between economic freedom and corruption expect that economic freedom boosts economic growth, improves income, and reduces levels of corruption. However, most of them have concentrated on developed and developing groups, while Association of...
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Due to demographic change the replacement rates of the German statutory pension scheme will decrease over the next decades. Voluntary savings for retirement will therefore gain more and more relevance in order to maintain one’s standard of living during retirement. This article examines the...
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The construction of an internal rating model is the main task for the bank in the framework of the IRB-foundation approach the fact that it is necessary to determine the probability of default by rating class. As a result, several statistical approaches can be used, such as logistic regression...
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In this work, we consider modeling the past volatilities through an asymmetric generalised autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity (Garch) model with heavy tailed sampling distributions. In particular, we consider the Student-t model with unknown degrees of freedom and indicate how it may...
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Operational risk management remains a major concern for financial institutions. Indeed, institutions are bound to manage their own funds to hedge this risk. In this paper, we propose an approach to allocate one's own funds based on a combination of historical data and expert opinion using the...
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of debt and financial assets held conditional on holding the different types of debt and assets. The analysis suggests … amounts of both debt (unsecured and secured) and assets (property and non-housing), even after conditioning on the probability … the household balance sheet, i.e. liabilities and assets. Additionally, we allow the influence of social interaction on …
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Bayesian hierarchical models serve as a standard methodology for aggregation and synthesis, used widely in statistics and other disciplines. I use this framework to aggregate the data from seven randomised experiments of expanding access to microcredit, assessing both the general impact of the...
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