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Eine Frage des Wohnorts. Zur Bedeutung der räumlichen Nähe von Hochschulen für die Studienentscheidung in Deutschland
Helbig, Marcel; Jähnen, Stefanie; Marczuk, Anna - In: Zeitschrift für Soziologie 46 (2017) 1, pp. 55–70
In diesem Beitrag gehen wir der Frage nach, inwieweit die Entfernung zur nächsten Hochschule (Universität/Fachhochschule) die Wahrscheinlichkeit beeinflusst, ein Studium aufzunehmen bzw. aufnehmen zu wollen. Außerdem untersuchen wir die Mechanismen, die dem Zusammenhang zwischen...
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Target Price Accuracy
Kerl, Alexander G. - In: BuR - Business Research 4 (2011) 1, pp. 74-96
-specific optimism and stock-specific risk (measured by volatility and price-to-book ratio). However, target price accuracy is positively …
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Forecast Evaluation of Explanatory Models of Financial Variability
Sucarrat, Genaro - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 3 (2009) 2009-8, pp. 1-33
obtained from discrete time models by comparing them with high-frequency ex post estimates (e.g. realised volatility) based on … illustration provides an example of where an explanatory model outperforms realised volatility ex post. …
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The information content in a volatility index for Spain
Gonzalez-Perez, Maria T.; Novales, Alfonso - In: SERIEs - Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 2 (2011) 2, pp. 185-216
A model-free methodology is used for the first time to estimate a daily volatility index (VIBEX-NEW) for the Spanish … display a negative, tight contemporaneous relationship with IBEX daily returns, contrary to other common volatility indicators …, as an implied volatility indicator or a GARCH(1,1) conditional volatility model. This relationship is approximately …
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Econometric Models for Oil Price Forecasting: A Critical Survey
Frey, Giliola; Manera, Matteo; Markandya, Anil; Scarpa, … - In: CESifo Forum 10 (2009) 1, pp. 29-44
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Restatement of the I-O coefficient stability problem
Dobrescu, Emilian - In: Journal of Economic Structures 2 (2013), pp. 1-67
The capacity of input-output tables to reflect the structural peculiarities of an economy and to forecast, on this basis, its evolution, depends essentially on the characteristics of the matrix A matrix of I-O (or technical) coefficients. However, the temporal behaviour of these coefficients is...
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Impact of democratic/non-democratic regimes on foreign direct investment in Pakistan: Pre and post September 11, 2001 scenarios
Nawaz, Tahir; Khan, Masood Amjad; Shah, Muhammad Akbar Ali - In: Pakistan Journal of Commerce and Social Sciences (PJCSS) 6 (2012) 1, pp. 67-82
observed that the volatility shocks are quite persistent and take a long time to die out. September 11, 2001incident and … thereafter war on terror has increased the conditional volatility of foreign direct investment and has statistically significant … volatility. One interesting finding of this study is that the impact of Non-Democratic regime before September, 11 scenario is …
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Die Privatisierung der öffentlichen Arbeitsvermittlung: Erfahrungen aus Australien, den Niederlanden und Großbritannien
Bruttel, Oliver - In: Zeitschrift für ArbeitsmarktForschung - Journal for … 38 (2005) 1, pp. 7-29
This article examines the consequences of contracting-out on the basis of the four criteria of efficiency, economy, effectiveness and equality (3 or 4 e's concept), which are borrowed from New Public Management research. The paper is based on 76 expert interviews and informative discussions...
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Beschäftigungswirkungen arbeits- und sozialrechtlicher Schwellenwerte
Koller, Lena; Schnabel, Claus; Wagner, Joachim - In: Zeitschrift für ArbeitsmarktForschung - Journal for … 44 (2011) 1/2, pp. 173-180
In Germany, there exist around 160 threshold values stating that certain labour laws and regulations apply only in establishments above a critical size (usually defined by the number of employees). As crossing a threshold may result in additional costs for the firm, it is often hypothesized that...
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Determinants of foreign direct investment ownership mode choice: Evidence from Nordic investments in Central and Eastern Europe
Larimo, Jorma; Arslan, Ahmad - In: Journal for East European Management Studies 18 (2013) 2, pp. 232-263
This paper addresses the determinants of foreign direct investment (FDI) ownership mode choice of firms in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) based on three most important theoretical paradigms of IB studies i.e. transaction cost economics, resource based view and institutional theory. The...
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