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There has been an on-going debate about choices of the most suitable model amongst avariety of model specifications and parameterizations. The first dissertation essay investigateswhether asymmetric leptokurtic return distributions such as Hansen’s (1994) skewed tdistributioncombined with...
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The study of Spatial Market Integration (SMI) has been of great concern for agricultural economists, with the Takayama and Judge Price and Allocation Model (TJM), in which prices are bounded by the Spatial Equilibrium Condition (SEC), being the core economic theory. The SEC implies that no...
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capital, foreign direct investment (FDI) and information and communication technology (ICT). The Johansen (1988) cointegration …
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Traditional macroeconometric models of the Australian economy estimate the behaviour of wage and price inflation separately, thereby ignoring the possibility that there is a contemporaneous relationship between these two variables. This thesis follows a recent trend emerging in other small open...
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that cointegration and the accompanying equilibriumcorrection relationship between market and book values for firms listed …
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This dissertation examines several issues regarding the congestion on the UpperMississippi River and Illinois Waterway. Chapter II identifies and measures the impactof lock congestion on grain barge rates on these waterways. Results indicate grain bargerates on both rivers are not affected by...
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While much attention has focused on the modelling of the interdependencies between key aggregates and stock indices in industrialised countries, this thesis is focused on investments in emerging markets and real estate – two research branches that have up to now not been investigated to a...
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This dissertation concerns cross-country consumption risk sharing in a long-run perspective. Financial integration, empirically measured by cross-country holdings of assets and liabilities, has increased dramatically in the past two decades. But what can explain the lack of cross-country risk...
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Canada and the US have been conducted. The economic analyses include: (i) testing cointegration of prices among North …
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This study estimates cointegration models by applying the Engle-Granger (1989) two-step es-timation procedure, the … Phillip-Ouliaris (1990) residual-based test and Johansen's multivariatetechnique. The cointegration techniques are tested on … Raotbl3 dataset, we test for cointegration between the consumption expenditure, and income and wealth vari-ables. In the …
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