For long time, the applicability of economic theories of cities, urbanisation and urban development as well to Russian cities was hampered by the lack of data beyond population figures. Since 1990, some contributions of Richard Rowland with regard to urban development in Russia referred to...

For long time, the applicability of economic theories of cities, urbanisation and urban development as well to Russian cities was hampered by the lack of data beyond population figures. Since 1990, some contributions of Richard Rowland with regard to urban development in Russia referred to...

Robust methods for IV inference have received considerable attention recently. Their analysis has raised a variety of problematic issues such as size/power trade-offs resulting from weak or many instruments. We show that information-reduction methods provide a useful and practical solution to...

This study investigates the state, development and drivers of banking market integration in the member countries of the Southern African Development Community (SADC). A Principal Component Analysis (PCA) of national retail interest rates indicates increasing integration in loan and deposit...

This paper compares two different strategies for managing interest rate exposure. One involves maintaining a borrowing portfolio using short and long term debt lines in order to maintain an average borrowing cost. The second involves using interest rate caps to manage exposure to interest rate...

In this paper, we apply bootstrap methods to principal components. We use a set of hypothetical data to illustrate how the bootstrap methods can be employed in constructing confidence intervals dealing with the principal components analysis. We write a Mathematica program to handle the all process.