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Adaptive Inference for Multi-Stage Survey Data

Al-Zou'bi, L. M.; Clark, Robert Graham; Steel, D. G. - 2009

Two-stage sampling usually leads to higher variances for estimators of means and regression coefficients, because of intra-cluster homogeneity. One way of allowing for clustering in fitting a linear regression model is to use a linear mixed model with two levels. If the estimated intra-cluster...

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Does Duality Theory Hold in Practice? A Monte Carlo Analysis for U.S. Agriculture

Rosas, Francisco; Lence, Sergio H. - 2011

The Neoclassical theory of production establishes a dual relationship between the profit value function of a competitive firm and its underlying production technology. This relationship, usually referred to as the duality theory, has been widely used in empirical work to estimate production...

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Secure and Private Data Aggregation in WSN

Taban, Gelareh - 2008

Data aggregation is an important efficiency mechanism for large scale, resource constrained networks such as wireless sensor networks (WSN). Security and privacy are central for many data aggregation applications: (1) entities make decisions based on the results of the data aggregation, so the...

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NONLINEARITY AND MARKET EFFICIENCY IN GCC STOCK MARKETS

Alharbi, Abdullah M. H. - 2009

will probably be irrelevant in doing empirical analysis. Existence of nonlinearity in financial markets has been argued by … regarded nonlinearity tests. In addition, the Efficient Market Hypothesis (EMH) was tested in this dissertation for the GCC … stock markets using both the standard linear approach and the more sophisticated nonlinearity tests. Since most of the …

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A small, macroeconometric model of the Australian economy : with an emphasis on modelling wages and prices

McHugh, Zoe D. - 2004

Traditional macroeconometric models of the Australian economy estimate the behaviour of wage and price inflation separately, thereby ignoring the possibility that there is a contemporaneous relationship between these two variables. This thesis follows a recent trend emerging in other small open...

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A Dynamic Equilibrium Model of Real Exchange Rates with General Transaction Costs

GOSWAMI, GAUTAM; SHRIKHANDE, MILIND; WU, LIUREN - 2002

We study the behavior of real exchange rates in a two-country dynamic equilibrium model. In this model, consumers can only consume domestic goods but can invest costlessly in capital stocks of both countries. Nevertheless, transporting goods between the two countries is costly and, hence, the...

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Essays on monetary economics and financial economics

Jansen, Dennis (contributor) - 2006

In this dissertation three different economic issues have been analyzed. The firstissue is whether monetary policy rules can improve forecasting accuracy of inflation.The second is whether the preference of a central bank is symmetry or not. The last issueis whether the behavior of aggregate...

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THE IMPACT OF FISCAL DECENTRALIZATION ON GROWTH, INEQUALITY AND LOCAL GOVERNANCE IN RURAL CHINA

Yao, Yi - 2008

This dissertation investigates empirically the consequences of recent fiscal policy changes on China?s rural development. It uses a county-level dataset covering over 90 percent of rural counties and a period of 13 years since 1993, in which China started to experience a series of fiscal reforms...

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Exchange Rate Volatility and Regime Change:Visegrad Comparison

Kocenda, Evžen; Valachy, Juraj - 2006

We analyze exchange rate volatility in the Visegrad Four countries in the course of their abandoning tight regimes for more flexible ones. We account for path dependence, asymmetric shocks, movements in interest rates, and allow for generalized error distribution. The overall findings are that...

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Exchange Rate Regimes and Volatility: Comparison of the Snake and Visegrad

Valachy, Juraj; Ko?enda, Evžen - 2003

Exchange rate stability was defined as one of the prerequisites for monetary integration in Europe. In this paper, we analyze recent developments in the volatility of exchange rates of the Central European countries (the Visegrad Group) and a selected group of European Union countries (the...

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