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Tracking Short-Term Dynamics of Economic Activity in Low-Income Countries in the Absence of High-Frequency Gdp Data

Dixit, S. V. S.; Opoku-Afari, Maxwell - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2012

This paper uses a set of routinely collected high-frequency data in low-income countries (LICs) to construct an aggregate and a comprehensive index of economic activity which could serve (i) as a measure of the direction of economic activity; and (ii) as a useful input in analyzing...

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Trade Openness and Volatility

Levchenko, Andrei A.; Giovanni, Julian di - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2008

This paper examines the mechanisms through which output volatility is related to trade openness using an industry-level panel dataset of manufacturing production and trade. The main results are threefold. First, sectors more open to international trade are more volatile. Second, trade is...

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Too Much Finance?

Berkes, Enrico; Panizza, Ugo; Arcand, Jean-Louis - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2012

This paper examines whether there is a threshold above which financial development no longer has a positive effect on economic growth. We use different empirical approaches to show that there can indeed be "too much" finance. In particular, our results suggest that finance starts having a...

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Demographic Research On the Socio Economic Background of Students of the Ecological University of Bucharest

Mihaila, Janina Mihaela - In: Romanian Statistical Review 62 (2014) 2, pp. 67-81

The paper describes a socio demographic and economic research performed on the first year students at the Ecological University of Bucharest, where we are focusing on understanding and investigating the conditions inside the families and the social environment in the home towns of these...

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The use of copulas in explaining crop yield dependence structures for use in geographic diversification

Larsen, Ryan; Mjelde, James W.; Klinefelter, Danny; … - In: Agricultural Finance Review 73 (2013), pp. 469-492

using Pearson linear correlation and Kendall's tau. The use of Kendall's tau allows the implementation of copulas to …'s tau are compared to Pearson's linear correlation, a more typical measure of dependence. Using this information, functions … consistently less than the linear correlation elasticities for wheat and cotton. For sorghum, however, the copula …

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CAREER MANAGEMENT IN THE EUROPEAN BANKING SYSTEM

Iulia, Iuga - In: Polish Journal of Management Studies 9 (2014) 1, pp. 54-61

system. This relation and its intensity will be established by calculating and analyzing the correlation coefficient. …

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Did Long-Short Investors Destabilize Commodity Markets?

Miffre, Joëlle; Brooks, Chris - Henley Business School, University of Reading - 2013

the conditional volatility of long-short commodity portfolios and their conditional correlation with traditional assets …

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A multiple correlation between different solar parameters in Medina, Saudi Arabia

Benghanem, M.; Joraid, A.A. - In: Renewable Energy 32 (2007) 14, pp. 2424-2435

correlation between the different parameters of solar energy. We have used a database available at the National Renewable Energy … irradiation with good agreement in Medina. The correlation connecting diffuse irradiation with both clearness index and sunshine … (SS) duration is found to be applicable in Medina site. A linear correlation between ambient temperature and global …

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The Analysis of the Correlation between the Banking System Profile and its Involvement in Transactions with Financial Derivatives

Ghi?ã-Mitrescu Silvia - In: Ovidius University Annals, Economic Sciences Series XII (2012) 2, pp. 1145-1148

will try to establish a statistical correlation between the volume of derivative transactions and two important components … banking system. The conclusions drawn from the analysis revealed a direct correlation between the banks’ size and the size of …

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Market Quality Breakdowns in Equities

Gao, Cheng; Mizrach, Bruce - Department of Economics, Rutgers University-New Brunswick - 2013

, breakdowns have fallen significantly since Reg NMS. Spikes in market correlation and high frequency trading surges make … correlation. Breakdowns are predictable for up to two days. …

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