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This paper employs linear and nonlinear unit-root tests to investigate: a) the price dynamics of the home price indices included in the S&P/Case-Shiller Composite10 index, and b) the validity of the “ripple effect,” following the approach outlined in Meen (1999). In general, the findings...
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A state’s right to prohibit unions from compelling employees to pay dues even when they are covered by a collective bargaining agreement has its basis in the 1947 Taft-Hartley amendments to the National Labor Relations Act (1935). After the amendment's passage, twelve (12) states passed...
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Productivity and efficiency analyses have been indispensable tools for evaluating firms’ performance in the banking sector. In this context, the use of Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) has been recently proposed in order to obtain a globally flexible functional form which is capable of...
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This paper seeks to investigate the connectivity of the US economy through the dynamics of the transmission of volatility in sectoral indices. For this, we use daily asset data and two methodologies. The first creates a spillover index that measures market connectivity and the second partitions...
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A Bayesian model averaging procedure is presented that makes use of a finite mixture of many model structures within the class of vector autoregressive (VAR) processes. It is applied to two empirical issues. First, stability of the Great Ratios in U.S. macro-economic time series is investigated,...
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In recognition of his contributions to the development of the method of cointegration analysis for analyzing … the development of the method of cointegration analysis. To illustrate by example, we apply the method of time series … cointegration analysis and present statistical evidence that supports the proposition that the economies of Canada and the United …
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