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long-run risks and fat tails, the pricing of VIX (CBOE Volatility Index) options and the market price of risk embedded in … estimate the structural parameters of the proposed model by maximum likelihood. I find that the stochastic volatility model … volatility risk. However, there is no consensus on the premium for market volatility risk. It can be positive or negative. The …
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This paper empirically examines the impact of oil price levels and volatility on key macroeconomic indicators of … Indonesia. In particular, two measures of volatility – historical volatility and realized volatility – are utilized and compared … for their different macroeconomic impacts. The relationships between oil price levels, the two volatility measurements …
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settlement feature of Class IIII milk futures contracts generate a unique volatility pattern of these futures markets in the … sense that the volatility gradually decreases as the USDA price announcement dates approaching in the month. Focusing on the … evolution of volatility in Class III milk futures market, this study quantifies the relative importance of a set of factors …
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In this paper, we develop an empirical test of consistency in contingent willingness topay (WTP) responses, which is based on the following a priori expectation. In economics,when an individual considers paying for public goods, his decision to pay, and his WTP arebased on utility-maximising...
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changes in ownership when analyzing spinoffs and generally to control for endogeneity, selection and data attrition when …
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We analyze the effects of ownership type and concentration on performance of a population of firms in a model large-scale privatization economy (Czech Republic). Using specifications based on first-differences and unique instrumental variables, we find that few types of private ownership improve...
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changes in ownership when analyzing divestitures and to control for endogeneity, selection and data attrition when analyzing …
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operator and spouse are dependent. We then find significant evidence of endogeneity in the health insurance coverage variable …
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, such as a regression function, and treating it as a conditional expectation is central to its identification and estimation … intuition about identification and estimation for endogenous nonparametric regression and related models. …
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. My results are encouraging, suggesting that the estimation strategy is able to significantly reduce endogeneity bias, and … CRP enrollment on CRP and non-CRP land. I present a new estimation strategy designed to overcome the confounding effects …
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