Search Results - subject:"Principal Components Analysis"

After the G.20 Summit: What Prospects for Global Development?

Naude, Wim - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2009

In the run.up to the Group of 20 (G.20) Summit that was held in London on 2 April 2009, many institutions (including governments, development organizations, NGOs and academics) identified issues and made recommendations for consideration. In this article I examine a selection of these...

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Africa.s Recovery from the Global Economic Crisis

Naude, Wim; Fosu, Augutin - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2009

African economies have been shaken by the global economic downturn which followed the US-centered financial crisis of 2008. Africa.s growth rate for 2009 and 2010 has recently been revised substantially downwards by international financial institutions. For instance the IMF has revised Africa.s...

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How Far From the Euro Area? Measuring Convergence of Inflation Rates in Eastern Europe

Becker, Bettina; Hall, Stephen G. - Department of Economics, Leicester University - 2009

We present a common factor framework of convergence which we implement using principal components analysis. We apply … convergence which we implement using principal components analysis. We apply this technique to a dataset of monthly inflation …, inflation rates, European Monetary Union, principal components analysis. a(Corresponding author) Loughborough …

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Using panel data to estimate the effect of rainfall shocks on smallholders food security and vulnerability in rural Ethiopia

Demeke, Abera Birhanu; Zeller, Manfred - Institut für Agrar- und Sozialökonomie in den Tropen … - 2009

security index which is developed by principal components analysis. Based on the scores of the index, households were …

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Map Based Visualization of Product Catalogs

Kagie, M.; Wezel, M.C. van; Groenen, P.J.F. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), ERIM … - 2009

interface based on nonlinear principal components analysis, which provides an easy way in constraining the space based on …

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Estimating and Forecasting GDP in Poland with Dynamic Factor Model

Krajewski, Jaroslaw - In: Dynamic Econometric Models 9 (2009), pp. 139-145

Presented paper concerns the dynamic factor models theory and application in the econometric analysis of GDP in Poland. DFMs are used for construction of the economic indicators and in forecasting, in analyses of the monetary policy and international business cycles. In the article we compare...

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Co-movements of international equity markets: a large-scale factor model approach

Caicedo-llano, Juliana; Bruneau, Catherine - In: Economics Bulletin 29 (2009) 2, pp. 1466-1482

We analyze the comovements of a set of country-sector indexes from 45 different countries studying their factor decomposition based on a PCA analysis for a large cross section framework. We derive a measure to analyze the comovements over time based on the part of variance explained by the main...

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Job Satisfaction and Quit Intentions of Offshore Workers in the UK North Sea Oil and Gas Industry

Dickey, Heather; Watson, Verity; Zangelidis, Alexandros - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

The North Sea oil and gas industry currently faces recruitment and retention difficulties due to a shortage of skilled workers. The vital contribution of this sector to the U.K. economy means it is crucial for companies to focus on retaining existing employees. One means of doing this is to...

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Macro Factors in UK Excess Bond Returns: Principal Components and Factor-Model Approach

Erdemlioglu, Deniz - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

We use factor augmented predictive regressions to investigate the relationship between excess bond returns and the macro economy. Our application is for the case of United Kingdom. The dimension of the large data set with 127 variables is reduced by the method of principal components and the...

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Economic and social disparities of Romania in regional and county profile

LEFTER, Constantin; CONSTANTIN, Cristinel - In: Management & Marketing 4 (2009) 1

Romania's accession to the European Union imposes a new way of approaching the economic and social disparities existing nowadays both at the level of the eight development regions of the country and at the level of counties as well. The analysis of the level and evolution of these disparities...

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