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effective exchange rates and currency misalignments for the US and its 16 major trading partners. We apply cointegration and … panel cointegration techniques to derive fully countryspecific measures of misalignment and measures based on panel … cointegration tests by Westerlund (2007), as well as different estimators. While we find strong evidence for the Balassa …
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Forecasting regional variables provides very important information for political, institutional and economic agents. However, in the present context characterized by important decline of economies, heterogeneous data and regional interdependencies, it is even more difficult to carry out accurate...
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The main aim of this paper is to estimate the future trend and analyze the pattern and rate of adoption of telephones in India. The paper uses S-shaped growth curve models for the same. It is found that the teledensity in India will increase from 12.6 telephones per 100 inhabitants in 2005-06 to...
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Long histories of returns are needed but often lacking when estimating the equity premium. This paper studies stock return predictability from the perspective of a Bayesian investor who has access to international data. Learning across countries arises whenever this investor believes that...
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We analyze the consequences of unconventional monetary policy by several central banks on the profitability of banks. In many countries the low interest rate environment has been slowly replaced by a negative interest rate environment. Many articles show that banks' profitability with respect to...
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Financial theory and econometric methodology both struggle in formulating models that are logically sound in reconciling short run martingale behaviour for financial assets with predictable long run behavior, leaving much of the research to be empirically driven. The present paper overviews...
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Simulated test marketing (STM) is a quantitative technique used to forecast new product sales, one of the most validated tools in all marketing research. Forecasting awareness is an important stage in that process, one critical to STM performance. Awareness models incorporated into popular STMs...
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With the advent of advanced data collection techniques, there is an increased interest in using econometric models to support decisions in marketing. Due to the sometimes specific nature of variables in marketing, the discipline uses econometric models that are rarely, if ever, used elsewhere....
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Using data for forty markets, this paper examines the nature and possible causes of time-variation within the stock return-dividend yield predictive regression. The results in this paper show that there is significant time-variation in the predictive equation for returns and that such variation...
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