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Chinese Manufacturing Performance in Comparative Perspective, 1980-2002

Szirmai, Adam; Ren, Ruoen; Bai, Manyin - 2005

This paper uses the detailed information in the 1995 Census of Industrial Production as a benchmark for analysing the coverage, concepts and consistency of published statistical series. On the basis of the analysis, the paper proposes a series of adjustments which result in more consistent...

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Market Reforms and The Performance of The Malaysian Electricity Industry

Kok Fong See - 2011

Electricity market reforms have occurred in many countries, including both developed and developing countries. The main objectives for electricity market reform in developed countries focus on reducing the production costs and electricity prices while the developing countries aim to improve...

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Wealth inequality and household structure : US vs. Spain

Bover Hidiroglu, Olympia - 2008

We study the link between culturally inherited household structure and wealth distribution in international comparisons using household data for the US and Spain (the SCF and the EFF). We estimate counterfactual US distributions relying on the Spanish household structure. Our results show that...

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International monetary flows of non-declared origin

Madsen, Frank G - 2009

recommendations, the thesis develops a complexity-theory based intelligence function, capillary intelligence, to improve the present … information-gathering systems and generate consistent and context-relevant intelligence for the consideration of policy …-makers. The intelligence function takes into account also the concept of self-organised criticality. The thesis fully adheres to …

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Emotion in the workplace: The new challenge for managers

Ashkanasy, N. M.; Daus, C. S. - 2002

Emotions in workplace settings and emotional intelligence are hot topics in management today. Leading business journals … such as Fortune and Harvard Business Review have featured articles on emotional intelligence. But there is more to emotions … in the workplace than just emotional intelligence. The aim of this article is to acquaint managers with intriguing new …

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Intelligence as a determinanting factor of human reliability and its implication in the development of executives

Jez, Uta - 2005

success is being investigated under special consideration of the factors ‘human intelligence’ and ‘human reliability’. Due to … parts of the human intelligence could be a promising way to increase the ’human reliability’ of executives among ‘leader … ‘creative intelligence’ seems to be obvious. Consequently, several possibilities arise to influence the development of …

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Topics in Longitudinal Studies with Coarsened Data

Jiang, Liqiu - 2007

In the first part of the dissertation, we derive two methods for responders analysis in longitudinal data with random missing data. Often a binary variable is generated by dichotomizing an underlying continuous variable measured at a specific point in time according to a prespecified threshold...

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Unit Root Tests in Time Series and Stochastic Volatility Models

Sen, Kapildeb - 2002

Providing appropriate forecasts of time series data into the future depends crucially on whether the time series under consideration is non-stationary (i.e. has a unit root) or stationary. In the context of a Stochastic Volatility Model (SVM), the presence of a unit root in financial data has...

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Adjustment for Measurement Error

Elliott, Laine E - 2009

A variety of complications arise when imperfect measurements, W, are observed in place of a true variable of interest, X. In the context of linear and non-linear regression models where X is a covariate, regression parameter estimators obtained when W is substituted for X may be substantially...

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Semiparametric approaches to inference in joint models for longitudinal and time-to-event data

Song, Xiao - 2002

In many longitudinal studies, it is of interest to characterize the relationship between a time-to-event (e.g. survival) and time-dependent and time-independent covariates. Time-dependent covariates are generally observed intermittently and with error.For a single time-dependent covariate, a...

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