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Exchange Rate Regime Transitions
Masson, Paul R. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2000
The “hollowing-out,” or “two poles” hypothesis is tested in the context of a Markov chain model of exchange rate transitions. In particular, two versions of the hypothesis—that hard pegs are an absorbing state, or that fixes and floats form a closed set, with no transitions to...
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Zwischen Markt und Moral - Wie wird die deutsche Land- und Ernährungswirtschaft in der Gesellschaft wahrgenommen?
Kayser, Maike; Bohm, Justus; Spiller, Achim - Gesellschaft für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften … - 2011
Die deutsche Land- und Ernährungswirtschaft ist zunehmend im Fokus der öffentlichen Diskussion. Dabei bewegt sie sich in einem Spannungsfeld von marktlichen Anforderungen und gesellschaftlichen Erwartungen. Um Rückschlüsse auf das generelle Meinungsklima zu gewinnen, wird in dieser Arbeit...
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Typology of rural areas in the Central and Eastern European EU new member States
Baum, Sabine; Trapp, Christian; Weingarten, Peter - Leibniz-Institut für Agrarentwicklung in … - 2004
dieselben Entwicklungsmaßnahmen benötigen. Die erste Typisierung mithilfe einer Clusteranalyse klassifizierte die NUTS-3 …
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Economic capability of East German regions: Results of a cluster analysis
Kronthaler, Franz - In: Regional Studies 39 (2005) 6, pp. 739-750
new growth theory and new economic geography, and using relevant empirical literature, regions are clustered according to …
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Potenziale für eine Verminderung des Fleischkonsums am Beispiel Deutschland und Auswirkungen einer Konsumreduktion in OECD-Ländern auf globale Marktbilanzen und Preise für Nahrungs...
Cordts, Anette; Duman, Nuray; Grethe, Harald; Nitzko, Sina - Gesellschaft für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften … - 2013
Due to its high resource use and negative impacts on the environment (e.g. climate effects and land-use intensity) the production of animal-based food products is increasingly criticized. Moreover, high consumption of meat is linked with negative impacts on consumer health. In light of these...
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Cluster Analysis of Market Potential in Emerging Markets: A Dynamic Research based on Markov Chain
Huo, Da - In: Journal for Economic Forecasting (2013) 4, pp. 218-231
The emerging economy is playing an important role in the global market. Market potential of emerging markets is also a determinant in a wide range of market decisions of the global managers. For the reason that the market potential consists of a number of different factors across different...
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A new stochastic dominance approach to enhanced index tracking problems
Bruni, Renato; Cesarone, Francesco; Scozzari, Andrea; … - In: Economics Bulletin 32 (2012) 4, pp. 3460-3470
Enhanced Index Tracking is the problem of selecting a portfolio that should generate excess return with respect to a benchmark index. Here we propose a large-size linear optimization model for Enhanced Index Tracking that selects an optimal portfolio according to a new stochastic dominance...
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No arbitrage and a linear portfolio selection model
Bruni, Renato; Cesarone, Francesco; Scozzari, Andrea; … - In: Economics Bulletin 33 (2013) 2, pp. 1247-1258
We propose a linear bi-objective optimization approach to the problem of finding a portfolio that maximizes average excess return with respect to a benchmark index while minimizing underperformance over a learning period. We establish some theoretical results linking classical No Arbitrage...
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Measuring the accuracy of population projections: An application of exploratory data analysis
Pflaumer, Peter - Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Universität Konstanz - 1993
The accuracy of U.N. population projections is examined. The goal is to measure the amount of uncertainty associated with past projections of the United Nations in order to provide a reaiistic measure of the uncertainty in the projection that the U.N. makes in the future. Various descriptive...
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Using Social Identity Theory to Predict Managers’ Emphases on Ethical and Legal Values in Judging Business Issues
Pearce, John - In: Journal of Business Ethics 112 (2013) 3, pp. 497-514
between the concepts of “ethical” and “legal” needs to be incorporated into theory building and empiricism. Second, a unifying … theory is needed that can explain the variables that influence managers to emphasize ethics and legality in their judgments …. Third, empirical evidence is needed to confirm the predictive power of the unifying theory, the discernable influence of …
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