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Financial Literacy among Working Young in Urban India
Agarwalla, Sobhesh Kumar; Barua, Samir K.; Jacob, Joshy; … - Economics, Indian Institute of Management
literacy of youth in India. …
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Spending patterns in youth
Hasan, Syed Akif; Subhani, Muhammad Imtiaz; Osman, Ms. Amber - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
The age of juvenility i.e. the youth has become emerged with new personality characteristics, which has made them more … powerful than ever before. Similarly, the youth has become more spendthrift in their daily routine to satisfy their self …-concept and social circle they belong to or wish to move in to. From yester years, spending pattern of youth has increased at …
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What Belongs Where? Variable Selection for Zero-Inflated Count Models with an Application to the Demand for Health Care
Jochmann, Markus - Economics Department, University of Strathclyde - 2009
This paper develops stochastic search variable selection (SSVS) for zero-inflated count models which are commonly used in health economics. This allows for either model averaging or model selection in situations with many potential regressors. The proposed techniques are applied to a data set...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008496448
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What Belongs Where? Variable Selection for Zero-Inflated Count Models with an Application to the Demand for Health Care
Jochmann, Markus - Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis (RCEA) - 2009
This paper develops stochastic search variable selection (SSVS) for zero-inflated count models which are commonly used in health economics. This allows for either model averaging or model selection in situations with many potential regressors. The proposed techniques are applied to a data set...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008469825
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Asset Pricing under Rational Learning about Rare Disasters
Koulovatianos, Christos; Wieland, Volker - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
This paper proposes a new approach for modeling investor fear after rare disasters. The key element is to take into account that investors' information about fundamentals driving rare downward jumps in the dividend process is not perfect. Bayesian learning implies that beliefs about the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009201120
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Equilibrium Portfolio Strategies in the Presence of Sentiment Risk and Excess Volatility
Dumas, Bernard J; Kurshev, Alexander; Uppal, Raman - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
Our objective is to identify the trading strategy that would allow an investor to take advantage of ''excessive'' stock price volatility and “sentiment” fluctuations. We construct a general-equilibrium model of sentiment. In it, there are two classes of agents and stock prices are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005666713
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Equilibrium Portfolio Strategies in the Presence of Sentiment Risk and Excess Volatility
Dumas, Bernard; Kurshev, Alexander; Uppal, Raman - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
Our objective is to identify the trading strategy that would allow an investor to take advantage of "excessive" stock price volatility and "sentiment" fluctuations. We construct a general-equilibrium model of sentiment. In it, there are two classes of agents and stock prices are excessively...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005830778
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Predicting House Prices with Spatial Dependence: Impacts of Alternative Submarket Definitions
Bourassa, Steven C.; Cantoni, Eva; Hoesli, Martin - 2008
We analyze the impacts of alternative submarket definitions when predicting house prices in a mass appraisal context, using both ordinary least squares (OLS) and geostatistical techniques. For this purpose, we use over 13,000 housing transactions for Louisville, Kentucky. We use districts...
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Un análisis bayesiano de la variación temporal del escenario de compra de los hogares
Manero, Carmen Berné; Figueras, Manuel Salvador; … - Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Económicas (IVIE) - 2008
This paper aims to analyse the underlying factors of varied behaviour shown in the store set of purchase of households during a time period (temporal variation). In order to examine whether there are differences between households with and without shopping varied behaviour, a Bayesian Separate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005515864
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What Can Rational Investors Do About Excessive Volatility and Sentiment Fluctuations?
Dumas, Bernard; Kurshev, Alexander; Uppal, Raman - 2005
Our objective is to understand the trading strategy that would allow an investor to take advantage of “excessive” stock price volatility and “sentiment” fluctuations. We construct a general equilibrium model of sentiment. In it, there are two classes of agents and stock prices are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005222555