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WER GEHT NOCH AN DIE THEKE? ERGEBNISSE EINER VERBRAUCHERSTUDIE ZU SB-FLEISCH
Schulze, Birgit; Spiller, Achim - Gesellschaft für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften … - 2007
The German meat market is facing considerable changes. Along with the boom of case-ready and discount stores, butchers and smaller retailers loose market shares, and private labels become widely accepted. The consumers' preferences are often neglected by these trends. This contribution discusses...
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Modeling Aggregate Use of Fund Resources; Analytical Approaches and Medium-Term Projections
Ghosh, Atish R.; Zalduendo, Juan; Goretti, Manuela; … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2007
This paper presents two approaches to modeling the use of IMF resources in order to gauge whether the recent decline in credit outstanding is a temporary or a permanent phenomenon. The two approaches-the time series behavior of credit outstanding and a two-stage program selection and access...
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Bayesian Vars; A Survey of the Recent Literature with An Application to the European Monetary System
Ciccarelli, Matteo; Rebucci, Alessandro - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2003
This paper reviews recent advances in the specification and estimation of Bayesian Vector Autoregressive models (BVARs …). After describing the Bayesian principle of estimation, we first present the methodology originally developed by Litterman … issues in forecasting and structural analysis. An application to the estimation of a system of time-varying reaction …
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Economic Growth and total Factor Productivity in Niger
Nachega, Jean-Claude; Fontaine, Thomson - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2006
This paper investigates empirically the sources of aggregate output growth and the determinants of total factor productivity (TFP) in Niger between 1963 and 2003. A growth accounting analysis indicates that the erosion in output per capita over the sample period is due to the negative growth of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005826119
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Structural Breaks in Fiscal Performance; Did Fiscal Responsibility Laws Have Anything to Do with them?
Medina, Leandro; Caceres, Carlos; Corbacho, Ana - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2010
In recent years, many countries have adopted Fiscal Responsibility Laws to strengthen fiscal institutions and promote fiscal discipline in a credible, predictable and transparent manner. Still, results on the effectiveness of these laws remain tentative. In this paper, we test empirically...
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Short-Term Water Demand Forecast Modelling at IIT Kanpur Using Artificial Neural Networks
Jain, Ashu; Varshney, Ashish Kumar; Joshi, Umesh Chandra - In: Water Resources Management 15 (2001) 5, pp. 299-321
The efficient operation and management of an existing water supply system require short-term water demand forecasts as inputs. Conventionally, regression and time series analysis have been employed in modelling short-term water demand forecasts. The relatively new technique of artificial neural...
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Climate change impacts on electricity demand in the State of New South Wales, Australia
Ahmed, T.; Muttaqi, K.M.; Agalgaonkar, A.P. - In: Applied Energy 98 (2012) C, pp. 376-383
Global temperature rise due to climate change has become a major concern for the policy makers. Since rising temperature has significant impact on electricity demand, the expansion of the electricity network and related augmentation plan of power industries will be affected due to the change in...
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In Search of Coincident and Leading Indicators of Economic Activity in Argentina
Simone, Alejandro - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2001
Time series on economic activity in developing countries, in particular real GDP, are reported with important lags. Therefore, it is useful to construct indicators that coincide or lead the actual direction and level of economic activity. A general methodology to construct these indicators is...
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Nonresident Deposits in India; In Search of Return?
Gupta, Poonam; Gordon, James P. F. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2004
This paper analyzes trends in the accumulation of NRI (nonresident Indian) deposits and investigates the determinants of these inflows. It finds that monthly deposit flows have been quite stable since the 1991 crisis; nevertheless, there have been occasions when monthly flows turned negative in...
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Country Insurance Using Financial Instruments
Ricci, Luca Antonio; Chamon, Marcos; Zhang, Yuanyan Sophia - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2011
The availability of financial instruments related to indices that track global financial conditions and risk appetite can potentially offer countries alternative options to insure against external shocks. This paper shows that while these instruments can explain much of the in-sample variation...
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