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Economic development as a matter of political geography
Streb, Jorge M.; Druck, Pablo F. - In: Estudios de economía 34 (2007) 1, pp. 5-20
Can limited government be a driving force of economic development? This idea goes back to Montesquieu, and is closely related to recent research in institutional economics. Measuring limited government with the Henisz political constraints index, and economic development with income per capita,...
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Volksvertreter sind risikofreudiger als das Volk
Heß, Moritz; Scheve, Christian von; Schupp, Jürgen; … - In: DIW-Wochenbericht : Wirtschaft, Politik, Wissenschaft 80 (2013) 10, pp. 17-21
In der Politik sind wie im Geschäftsleben oft riskante beziehungsweise gefährliche Entscheidungen zu treffen, bei denen die Ergebnisse nur schwer oder gar nicht prognostizierbar sind. Da Menschen in ihren Einstellungen gegenüber Risiken und Gefahren variieren, ist es vernünftig, dass in...
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Parteianhänger : Wohlhabende neigen zu Union und FDP - und zu den Grünen
Bach, Stefan; Grabka, Markus M. - In: DIW-Wochenbericht : Wirtschaft, Politik, Wissenschaft 80 (2013) 37, pp. 11-18
Mit den Daten des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels (SOEP) kann der statistische Zusammenhang zwischen der Neigung von Personen zu politischen Parteien sowie deren Einkommen und Vermögen untersucht werden. Dabei zeigt sich, dass Besserverdiener und Wohlhabende zur Union und zur FDP neigen, aber auch...
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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
procedure ; cointegration ; quasi-maximum-likelihood estimation ; index-tracking …
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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 cross sections of the longest Employment Survey available, we show that there is little …
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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
investments in metallurgical sector companies. The paper presents how to construct the model, various methods of its estimation … method of the Value at Risk estimation. The analysis was made by comparing individual metallurgical companies to the Warsaw …
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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 … ; heteroskedasticity robust estimation ; non-parametric approach ; stock market data …
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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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Empirical testing on uncovered interest rate parity in Malaysia
Jaratin Lily; Mori Kogid; Mohd Rahimie Abd Karim; … - In: Journal of applied finance & banking 1 (2011) 2, pp. 95-114
Uncovered interest rate parity (UIRP) provides a crucial theoretical concept for many models in international finance and international monetary economics. Using quarterly data span from 1998Q1 to 2010Q3, we run conventional regressions (OLS) and simple GARCH analysis on UIRP for the case of...
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