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Global Bahadur representation for nonparametric censored regression quantiles and its applications
Kong, Efang; Linton, Oliver; Xia, Yingcun - 2011
This paper is concerned with the nonparametric estimation of regression quantiles where the response variable is … component functions in additive quantile regression models. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010288315
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Intergenerational Top Income Mobility in Sweden: Capitalist Dynasties in the Land of Equal Opportunity?
Björklund, Anders; Roine, Jesper; Waldenström, Daniel - 2008
This paper presents new evidence on intergenerational mobility in the top of the income and earnings distribution. Using a large dataset of matched father-son pairs in Sweden, we find that intergenerational transmission is very strong in the top, more so for income than for earnings. In the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010320406
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On the equivalence of instrumental variables estimators for linear models
Galvão Júnior, Antônio Fialho; Montes-Rojas, Gabriel - In: Economics letters 134 (2015), pp. 13-15
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On the explanation of the Lucas Paradox
Göktan, Mehmet Gökhan - In: Economics letters 137 (2015), pp. 109-113
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011436267
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The Phillips curve in the US : a nonlinear quantile regression approach
Xu, Qifa; Niu, Xufeng; Jiang, Cuixia; Huang, Xue - In: Economic modelling 49 (2015), pp. 186-197
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Fighting corruption when existing corruption-control levels count : what do wealth-effects tell us in Africa?
Asongu, Simplice A. - 2012
Why are some nations more effective at battling corruption than others? Are there different determinants in the fight against corruption across developing nations? How do wealth effects play-out when existing corruption-control levels matter in the corruption battle? To investigate these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011410198
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Fighting corruption when existing corruption-control levels count : what do wealth effects tell us?
Asongu, Simplice A. - 2012
Why are some nations more effective at battling corruption than others? Are there different determinants in the fight against corruption across developing nations? How do wealth effects play-out when existing corruption-control levels matter in the corruption battle? To investigate these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011410217
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Early warning signals of financial crises with multi-scale quantile regressions of log-periodic power law singularities
Zhang, Qun; Zhang, Qunzhi; Sornette, Didier - 2015
-price dynamics to diagnose financial bubbles by providing three main innovations. First, we introduce the quantile regression to the … quantile regression of LPPLS signals contributes useful early warning signals. The comparison between the constructed signals …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011412424
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Information sharing and conditional financial development in Africa
Asongu, Simplice A.; Anyanwu, John C.; Tchamyou, Vanessa S. - 2016
This study examines conditional financial development from information sharing in 53 African countries for the period 2004-2011, using contemporary and non-contemporary quantile regressions (QR) which enable the assessment of the effect of information sharing throughout the conditional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011417477
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Efficient scale of prefectural government in China
Fukushige, Mototsugu; Shi, Yingxin - In: China finance and economic review : CFER 4 (2016), pp. 1-18
expenditures of the prefecture-level local government by estimating quintile regression. Results: At around 220,000 people, per …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011417737