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González Abril, Luis; Velasco Morente, Francisco; … - In: Revista de métodos cuantitativos para la economía y … 10 (2010), pp. 5-18

In this paper, several identities concerning expectation, variance, covariance, cumulative distribution functions, the coefficient of variation, and the Lorenz curve are obtained and they are used in establishing theoretical results. Furthermore, a graphical representation of the variance is...

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Time series models for growth of urban population in SAARC countries

Khan, Md. Atikur Rahman; Rahman, Md. Mostafizur - In: Advances in management & applied economics 2 (2012) 1, pp. 109-119

The purpose of our present study is to strike out suitable models to explain the growth pattern and to forecast for urban population in SAARC countries. Using the data from UNPD for the years 1950 to 2000 in five years interval, we fitted both exponential and ARMA models. We found the...

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Forecasting overnight interest rates volatility with asymmetric GARCH models

Dayioğlu, Tuğba - In: Journal of applied finance & banking 2 (2012) 6, pp. 151-162

This study investigates models for overnight interest rate volatility in Turkey and USA using the Asymmetric GARCH … mentioned with GARCH models, which reflect the symmetric movements; and the EGARCH, GJR-GARCH, Asymmetric PARCH A-CGARCH are … leverage effects are seen in the estimation results. -- overnight interest rates volatility ; asymmetric Garch models …

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Community-based health insurance and social capital : a review

Donfouet, Hermann Pierre Pythagore; Mahieu, Pierre-Alexandre - In: Health economics review 2 (2012) 5, pp. 1-5

Community-Based Health Insurance (CBHI) is an emerging concept for providing financial protection against the cost of illness and improving access to quality health services for low-income rural households who are excluded from formal insurance. CBHI is currently being provided in some rural...

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The stock selection problem : is the stock selection approach more important than the optimization method? : evidence from the Danish stock market

Grobys, Klaus - In: Journal of applied finance & banking 1 (2011) 1, pp. 143-162

Passive investment strategies basically aim to replicate an underlying benchmark. Thereby, the management usually selects a subset of stocks being employed in the optimization procedure. Apart from the optimization procedure, the stock selection approach determines the stock portfolios's...

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Market timing and statistical arbitrage : which market timing opportunities arise from equity price busts coinciding with recessions? : the Swedish stock market in the financial cr...

Grobys, Klaus - In: Journal of applied finance & banking 1 (2011) 1, pp. 53-81

Even though a random walk process is from a statistical point of view not predictable, some movements can be correlated with specific events concerning other variables. Then, predictable patterns may arise being dependent on this joint event. There is evidence given that equity price busts being...

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Self-employment in Chile, long run trends and education and age structure changes

Puentes, Esteban; Contreras, Dante; Sanhueza, Claudia - In: Estudios de economía 34 (2007) 2, pp. 203-247

This paper studies long-term trends of self-employment in Chile. Self-employment is associated with poor job conditions, vulnerability, and instability or informal labor market. Contrary to what is expected, self- employment level does not respond to macroeconomic variables. Using forty-one...

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Using the value at risk method in estimation of investment risk in the metallurgical sector companies

Miłoś, Ewa - In: E-Finanse : finansowy kwartalnik internetowy 7 (2011) 1, pp. 37-48

The aim of this paper is to analyze the merits of using the Value At Risk method in estimating the risk associated with investments in metallurgical sector companies. The paper presents how to construct the model, various methods of its estimation and their advantages and disadvantages. In the...

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A non-parametric approach of heteroskedasticity robust estimation of Vector-Autoregressive (VAR) models

Grobys, Klaus - In: Journal of finance and investment analysis 1 (2012) 1, pp. 55-67

This contribution studies the application of heteroskedasticity robust estimation of Vector-Autoregressive (VAR) models. VAR models have become one of the most applied models for the analysis of multivariate time series. Econometric standard software usually provides parameter estimators that...

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Multi-interregional economic impact analysis based on multi-interregional input output model consisting of 7 regions of Vietnam, 2000

Trinh, Bui; Kobayashi, Kiyoshi; Quang, Thai Nguyen; … - In: Journal of finance and investment analysis 1 (2012) 2, pp. 83-117

I/O models have been widely used to assess the impacts of many changes in an economy. An I/O model is also an important tool to make forecasts and the results from an I/O model are very helpful in many policy-making processes. Many scientific findings in economics have to give credit to the I/O...

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