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Inequality and economic growth: The empirical relationship reconsidered in the light of comparable data

Knowles, Stephen - 2001

All of the recent empirical work on the relationship between income inequality and economic growth has used inequality data that are not consistently measured. This paper argues that this is inappropriate and shows that the significant negative correlation often found between income inequality...

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Infrastructure and regional development in the People's Republic of China

Zhao, Zhijun; Kanamori, Toshiki - 2007

This paper investigates the relationship between infrastructure and rural economic development. It begins by reviewing the progress of Chinese economic and rural reform and analyzes the challenges faced by the government of the People's Republic of China (PRC). Then, based on the review, an...

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Managing capital flows: The case of the Philippines

Yap, Josef - 2008

During the past five years or so, most East Asian economies including the Philippines experienced a rising level of foreign exchange reserves and rapidly appreciating currencies both in nominal and real terms. One cause has been the resurgence of capital flows, which makes the issue of how to...

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Dynamics of development in rural communities

Barrios, Erniel B. - 2007

This paper explores the complex process of rural development at the community level in the Philippines. From the complementation among the essential elements of rural development (social infrastructure, physical infrastructure, and financial services), linkages are traced towards the attainment...

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Three Essays on Estimation and Dynamic Modelling of Multivariate Market Risks using High Frequency Financial Data

Voev, Valeri - 2008

This dissertation consists of three stand-alone research papers, all of which treat the topic of estimation and dynamic … categories - estimation (Chapter 1 and 2) and dynamic modelling (Chapter 3), and are intentionally arranged in a particular … assets in the presence of a host of market microstructure frictions. An extension to this problem, where both the estimation …

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Small area poverty estimation by Conditional Monte Carlo

Farrell, Niall - 2024

unavailable. This paper presents a Small Area Estimation (SAE) technique called Conditional Monte Carlo (CMC). CMC provides robust …

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Hedonische Modelle: Chancen und Anwendungsrestriktionen für die Grundstückswertermittlung. Eine empirische Analyse Berliner Mietshäuser von 1990 bis 2013

Sanftenberg, Anne - 2015

therefore on model specification and model estimation with subsequent model validation. Hedonic models are already a versatile …

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Why Does Implied Risk Aversion Smile?

Ziegler, Alexandre - 2002

This paper shows that preferences alone cannot explain the patterns reported in the literature.

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Permanent and Transitory Factors Affecting the Dynamics of the Term Structure of Interest Rates

Perignon, Christophe; Villa, Christophe - 2002

This paper proposes a novel methodology, based on the Common Principal Component analysis, allowing one to estimate the factors driving the term structure of interest rates, in the presence of time-varying covariance structure.

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Closed Form Integration of Artificial Neural Networks With Some Applications to Finance

Gottschling, Andreas; Haefke, Christian; White, Halbert - 1999

Many economic and econometric applications require the integration of functions lacking a closed form antiderivative, which is therefore a task that can only be solved by numerical methods. We propose a new family of probability densities that can be used as substitutes and have the property of...

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