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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to determine the impact of political risk on the German solar energy industry. The authors analyze the period from 2006 to mid-2011, when the technological development of this sector was remarkable while the whole industry is depending on political...
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Purpose – Analyzing and forecasting reliability is increasingly important for enterprises. An accurate product reliability forecasting model cannot only learn and track a product's reliability and operational performance, but can also offer useful information that allows managers to take...
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Explores the relationships between statistical process control (SPC) and forecasting procedures. While both procedures are often applied and used in different contexts, a careful analysis shows that they go through the same stages that culminate in process or forecast monitoring. This apparent...
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the association between economic factors (consumer price index, real gross domestic product per capita, base discount rate, and rate of unemployment) and numbers of hospital psychiatric beds. Design/methodology/approach – Time series...
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the time series properties of 26 macroeconomic variables in Papua New Guinea (PNG) over the period 1970‐2006. Design/methodology/approach – Both unit root and stationarity tests without a structural break and the Lagrange Multiplier (LM)...
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to study empirically the dynamics of crime in Turkey at aggregate and disaggregate levels and provide empirical evidence of temporal causality between crime, health, income, divorce, urbanization and security expenditures. Design/methodology/approach –...
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The marriage of new scanner‐type data sources and new computing and analysis methods is allowing a new approach to the development and use of models for decision support and product line management. Data‐driven modeling describes a process of model‐building wherein models are created that...
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to show how dynamic regression models based on equilibrium correction principles can be used to form auditor expectations of account balances as part of the analytic review. Design/methodology/approach – The design and method are empirical, using the...
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Purpose – Seeks to present a microeconomic model to analyse theoretically BSC, to develop a simplified model version and to apply it empirically. Design/methodology/approach – The model assumes exponential production and demand functions with constant scale factors and elasticities. It is...
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Purpose – The recent unprecedented levels reached by financial ratios have led to a re‐examination of their time‐series properties, with evidence of long memory and nonlinearity reported. The purpose of this paper is to re‐examine the nature of these series in the light of potential...
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