Obwohl statistische Analysen aufgrund der technischen Möglichkeiten immer einfacher werden, ist das grundlegende Verständnis und die Kenntnis von den Möglichkeiten und Grenzen statistischer Verfahren umso wichtiger. Mit vielen ausführlichen Beispielen aus dem wirtschaftswissenschaftlichen...

This book presents the state of the art in the relatively new field of dynamic economic modelling with regime switches. The contributions, written by prominent scholars in the field, focus on dynamic decision problems with regime changes in underlying dynamics or objectives. Such changes can be...

This paper presents the analysis of the results of the National Program for Professional Qualification - PNQ in Piracicaba/Sao Paulo - Brazil. It analyzed the impact of PNQ on the income of workers. The Theory of Human Capital is presented as a suitable theoretical basis. We used econometric...

Gold is a globally traded asset and held in large quantities by investors and central banks. Since there is no established model to assess if the price of gold is overvalued or undervalued, we propose a relative valuation framework based on gold price ratios and focus on potential drivers of...