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Income Polarization, Convergence Tools and Mixture Analysis

Battisti, Michele; Parmeter, Christopher F. - Department of Economics, School of Business - 2011

Modeling the cross-country distribution of per capita using mixture analysis provides a natural platform for the recovery or detection of clubs of countries. Unfortunately, these mixture methods, when based on a strictly univariate approach are limiting towards one's ability to learn about the...

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Clustering and polarization in the distribution of output: A multivariate perspective

Battisti, Michele; Parmeter, Christopher F. - In: Journal of Macroeconomics 35 (2013) C, pp. 144-162

Modeling the cross-country distribution of per capita income using mixture analysis provides a natural platform for the detection of clubs of countries. Unfortunately, these mixture methods, when based on a strictly univariate approach are limiting towards one’s ability to learn about the...

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Convergence Tools and Mixture Analysis

Battisti, Michele; Parmeter, Christopher F. - Dipartimento di Economia e Finanza (DEF), Libera … - 2010

In this paper we employ traditional beta, sigma, gamma-convergence tools to assess growth behaviour of groups of … countries in connection with mixture densities. In the presence of mixtures, the standard methods to assess convergence are …. Our results show that, taken as global measures, convergence is an uncommon feature, whereas focusing on the individual …

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Nonlinear Exchange Rate Models; A Selective Overview

Sarno, Lucio - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2003

This paper provides a selective overview of nonlinear exchange rate models recently proposed in the literature and assesses their contribution to understanding exchange rate behavior. Two key questions are examined. The first question is whether nonlinear autoregressive models of real exchange...

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Inference robustness in multivariate models with a scale parameter

Fernández, C.; Osiewalski, J.; Steel, M.F.J. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 1995

We formulate a general representation of points z 2 <n

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The continuous multivariate location-scale model revisited : A tale of robustness

Fernández, C.; Osiewalski, J.; Steel, M.F.J. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 1993

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Spatial distribution of R&D expenditure and patent applications across EU regions and its impact on economic cohesion

Martín, Carmela; MULAS-GRANADOS, CARLOS; Sanz, Ismael - In: INVESTIGACIONES REGIONALES - Journal of REGIONAL RESEARCH (2005) 6, pp. 41-61

This article explores the spatial distribution of regional technology indicators in the EU over the last decade and its impact on cohesion. Thus, we find that public R&D spending and patent applications have converged among regions during the nineties. On the other hand, private R&D activities...

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Examples of New Macroeconomic Modelling and Simulation Techniques: How They Could Improve Decisions and Public Perception

Albu, Lucian Liviu; Gorun, Adrian - In: Journal for Economic Forecasting (2010) 5, pp. 7-16

Macroeconomic forecasting started around the Second World War as a way to test economic theories, but it also has a number of very concrete uses, playing an increasing role as an input in decision-making. The first macroeconomic models were produced by two famous economists, Tinbergen in 1939...

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Employment Concentration across US Counties

Fafchamps, Marcel; Desmet, Klaus - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2003

becoming more or less concentrated. The existing literature has found deconcentration (convergence) of employment across urban …

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A MODEL TO ESTIMATE THE EFFECT OF GLOBAL CRISIS ON THE CONVERGENCE PROCESS IN EU

ALBU, LUCIAN-LIVIU - In: New Trends in Modelling and Economic Forecast (MEF 2011) 1 (2012) 1, pp. 11-27

There are evidences that the actual global crisis affected the convergence process in EU. Generally, just new adhered … opinions regarding how deep and how long the convergence process will be affected. Synthetically, the pessimistic authors are … considering the convergence in the level of income per capita as a result of structural changes in economy. In a first part of the …

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