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Aggregate Trading Behavior of Technical Models and the Yen/Dollar Exchange Rate
Schulmeister, Stephan - 2007
The study analyses the interaction between the trading behaviour of 1,024 moving average and momentum models and the fluctuations of the yen/dollar exchange rate. The paper shows first that these models would have exploited exchange rate trends quite profitably between 1976 and 1999, and then...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011435219
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The Impact of Growth Performance and Political Regime Type on Economic Policy Liberalization
Pitlik, Hans - 2007
The paper investigates empirically the interaction between economic growth performance and political institutions in producing free-market reform. In particular, we explore whether political regime types systematically shape government policy responses to good or bad growth performance,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011435228
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The Impact of Competition on Macroeconomic Performance
Aiginger, Karl - 2008
This paper investigates to which extent tough competition impacts on the macroeconomic performance of countries. The relation between competition and innovation has been investigated intensely in industrial economics. It started with Schumpeter's hypothesis that monopoly profits were necessary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011435235
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Profitability of Technical Currency Speculation. The Case of Yen-Dollar Trading 1976-2007
Schulmeister, Stephan - 2008
The paper investigates the profitability of 1,024 moving average and momentum models and their components in the yen-dollar market. It turns out that all models would have been profitable between 1976 and 2007. The models produce more single losses than single profits. At the same time, the size...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011435249
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Aggregate Trading Behaviour of Technical Models and the Yen-Dollar Exchange Rate 1976-2007
Schulmeister, Stephan - 2008
The study analyses the interaction between the trading behaviour of 1,024 moving average and momentum models and the fluctuations of the yen-dollar exchange rate. I show first that these models would have exploited exchange rate trends quite profitably between 1976 and 2007. I then show that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011435250
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Profitability of Technical Stock Trading: Has it Moved from Daily to Intraday Data?
Schulmeister, Stephan - 2008
This paper investigates how technical trading systems exploit the momentum and reversal effects in the S&P 500 spot and futures market. When based on daily data, the profitability of 2,580 technical models has steadily declined since 1960, and has been unprofitable since the early 1990s....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011435253
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Strengthening the Resilience of an Economy. Strategies to Prevent another Crisis
Aiginger, Karl - 2009
macroeconomic responses to the crisis and regulatory reforms on a national and international level. It enlarges the list of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011435262
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Tourism Forecasting: Accuracy of Alternative Econometric Models Revisited
Song, Haiyan; Smeral, Egon; Li, Gang; Chen, Jason L. - 2008
quarterly international tourism demand in 25 countries or country groupings. Tourism demand is measured in terms of tourist … expenditure by inbound international visitors in a destination. Two univariate time series models are included in the forecasting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011435264
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Passenger Car Use and Climate Change. Quantifying the Impacts of Technological Innovations Needed for Substantial CO2 Emission Reductions
Meyer, Ina; Scheffran, Jürgen - 2009
baseline car stock projections. The study adopts an international approach quantifying in total 11 world regions, thereby … same throughout world regions, following the American lifestyle of individual passenger vehicle demand. The models are … calibrated using empirical data that have been originally collated from international sources for the purpose of the study …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011435266
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A General Financial Transaction Tax: A Short Cut of the Pros, the Cons and a Proposal
Schulmeister, Stephan - 2009
The idea of introducing a general financial transaction tax (FTT) has recently attracted rising attention. There are three reasons for this interest: First, the economic crisis was deepened by the instability of stock prices, exchange rates and commodity prices. This instability might be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011435269