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Ownership structure and efficiency of Tunisian banking sector

Anis, Ochi; Yosra, Saidi - In: Journal of finance and investment analysis 1 (2012) 3, pp. 239-254

level of cost efficiency. While, we have proposed an assessment of the cost efficiency of Tunisian banks during the period … affect the cost efficiency scores of banks or not. Overall, our results demonstrate that environmental variables contribute … significantly and positively to the difference cost-efficiency scores between Tunisian banks. Also, our results show that private …

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Financial liberalization and banking crisis : a spatial panel model

Triki, Mohamed Bilel; Maktouf, Samir - In: Journal of applied finance & banking 2 (2012) 3, pp. 81-122

This paper investigates the determinants of banking system fragility by underlining the impact of bank liberalization on banking stability during the process of financial liberalization in emerging and developed countries. To this effect, we adopted a panel model with spatial dependency from a...

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Algunas observaciones acerca del uso de software en la estimación del modelo Half-Normal

Ortega Irizo, Francisco Javier; Gavilán Ruiz, José Manuel - In: Revista de métodos cuantitativos para la economía y … 11 (2011), pp. 3-16

Using the maximum likelihood method, in order to estimate Half-Normal stochastic frontier production models, entails several practical di±culties that, perhaps, have not been su±ciently emphasised. In employing FRONTIER software, we analyse the case in which the estimation obtained suggests...

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A time-varying parameter vector autoregression model for forecasting emerging market exchange rates

Kumar, Manish - In: International journal of economic sciences and applied … 3 (2010) 2, pp. 21-39

In this study, a vector autoregression (VAR) model with time-varying parameters (TVP) to predict the daily Indian rupee (INR)/US dollar (USD) exchange rates for the Indian economy is developed. The method is based on characterization of the TVP as an optimal control problem. The methodology is a...

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Volatility shifts and persistence in variance : evidence from the sector indices of Istanbul Stock Exchange

Çağlı, Efe Çağlar; Mandacı, Pınar Evrim; … - In: International journal of economic sciences and applied … 4 (2011) 3, pp. 119-140

This study examines the impact of volatility shifts on volatility persistence for three major sector indices of Istanbul Stock Exchange (ISE) and ISE National 100 index over the period beginning from 1997 and ending in 2009. The exponential generalized autoregressive conditional...

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On the importance of the arrival of new information

Chumacero, Rómulo A. - In: Estudios de economía 37 (2010) 2, pp. 207-215

This paper develops a framework for evaluating the importance of the arrival of new information for forecasting, estimation, and decision making. By fusing known and recently developed statistical tests and concepts, the paper provides guidelines for detecting outliers, influential observations,...

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Modeling stock market indexes with copula functions

Leśkow, Jacek; Mokrzycka, Justyna; Krawiec, Kamil - In: E-Finanse : finansowy kwartalnik internetowy 7 (2011) 2, pp. 1-16

Contemporary financial risk management is significantly based on the analysis of time series of returns. One of the most significant errors frequently committed by analysts is the predominant use of normal distributions when it is clear that the returns are not normal. Copula models and models...

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Global imbalances in current account balances

Bildirici, Melike; Kayıkçı, Fazil - In: Journal of applied finance & banking 2 (2012) 6, pp. 83-93

Persistent current account deficits were observed in some developing countries that are received substantial foreign capital in the last decades. This has raised the issue of sustainability and increased the volume of studies about the measures of sustainable current account deficits in the...

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Volatility modeling for forecasting stock index with fixed parameter distributional assumption

Rahman, Md. Mostafizur; Rahman, Md. Azizur; Hossain, … - In: Journal of applied finance & banking 3 (2013) 1, pp. 109-122

The aim of this paper is to empirically investigate the in sample and out of sample forecasting performance of several GARCH-type models such as GARCH, EGARCH and APARCH model with Gaussian, student-t, Generalized error distribution (GED), student-t with fixed DOF 10 and GED with fixed parameter...

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Seasonal adjustment versus seasonality modelling : effect on tourism demand forecasting

Gasmi, Amira - In: Advances in management & applied economics 3 (2013) 4, pp. 119-132

efficiency, we note in addition, that the modelling of the seasonal variation using seasonal ARIMA model (SARIMA) may lead to …

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