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Determinants of maternal healthcare utilization in Zimbabwe

Muchabaiwa, Lazarus; Mazambani, D.; Chigusiwa, L.; Bindu, S. - In: International journal of economic sciences and applied … 5 (2012) 2, pp. 145-162

assist health policy making, there was an investigation of how demographic, socioeconomic and cultural factors determine … the 2005/6 Zimbabwe Demographic Health Survey was estimated. Secondary education increases the odds of use of maternal … health services by at least 2 times at 1 percent level of significance whilst access to information increases the odds by 1 …

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Internet addiction among Greek university students : demographic associations with the phenomenon, using the Greek version of young's Internet addiction rest

Frangos, Christos C.; Frangos, Constantinos C.; Kiohos, … - In: International journal of economic sciences and applied … 3 (2010) 1, pp. 49-74

, divorced status, poor grades, and accessing the Internet outside of the home. The results of this study will allow health …

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A modified Kakwani measure for health inequality

Fjugushige, Mototsugu; Ishikawa, Noriko; Maekawa, Satoko - In: Health economics review 2 (2012) 10, pp. 1-7

decomposition method using expenditure components and provide an empirical example with Japanese data. -- health inequality …

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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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