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We propose and implement a framework for characterizing and monitoring the global business cycle. Our framework utilizes high-frequency data, allows us to account for a potentially large amount of missing observations, and is designed to facilitate the updating of global activity estimates as...
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Motivated by prediction problems for time series with heavy-tailed marginal distributions, we consider methods based on `local least absolute deviations' for estimating a regression median from dependent data. Unlike more conventional `local median' methods, which are in effect based on locally...
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A maximum likelihood estimation method implemented in S-PLUS (S-MLE) to estimate the Hurst coefficient (H) is evaluated. The Hurst coefficient, with 0.5H1, characterizes long memory time series by quantifying the rate of decay of the autocorrelation function. S-MLE was developed to estimate H...
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products with revealed comparative advantages in the EU markets for Hungary and to a lesser extent for Croatia, but have not … identified any such aggregated agro-food product group for Slovenia. Yet, also Hungary and Croatia have faced difficulties in …
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Croatia recently signed several trade liberalisation agreements. The cornerstones of its trade policy are WTO … membership, the Stabilisation and Association Agreement with the EU and Croatia's application of membership as well as bilateral … impact of Croatia's agricultural trade policy on the agri-food sector. For the analysis, a partial equilibrium model based on …
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a group of Western Balkan countries (Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, FYRoM and Serbia). The analysis in static model …
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, structure and human capital) and real GDP growth in Republic of Croatia for the (pre)transition period 1960-1989 and transition …
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