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Today’s Problems: In The Minds of The Great Economists

Obregon, Carlos - 2021

This book presents the history of economic thought as it relates to today’s most pressing problems, and it emphasizes the critical connection that exists between what may seem cold, unrealistic mathematical economic models, and the quality of everyday life of any citizen of the planet earth....

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Bayesian Approaches to Shrinkage and Sparse Estimation

Korobilis, Dimitris; Shimizu, Kenichi - 2021

In all areas of human knowledge, datasets are increasing in both size and complexity, creating the need for richer statistical models. This trend is also true for economic data, where high-dimensional and nonlinear/noparametric inference is the norm in several fields of applied econometric work....

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Forward Ordinal Probability Models for Point-in-Time Probability of Default Term Structure

Yang, Bill Huajian - 2017

to the common score and intercepts, the rank and rating (for a risk-rated portfolio) specific sensitivity. This rank … specific sensitivity allows a risk rating to respond to its migrations to default, downgrade, stay, and upgrade accordingly. An … approach for parameter estimation is proposed based on maximum likelihood for observing rank outcome frequencies. Applications …

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Forecasting Aluminum Prices with Commodity Currencies

Pincheira, Pablo; Hardy, Nicolás - 2019

In this paper we show that the exchange rates of some commodity exporter countries have the ability to predict the price of spot and future contracts of aluminum. This is shown with both in-sample and out-of-sample analyses. The theoretical underpinning of these results relies on the...

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Establishing a comprehensive census of undergraduate economics curricula:Foundational and special requirements for major programs in the U.S.

Turner, Grant - 2018

This study is the first of a series of studies, collectively embodying a multiphase mixed methods design. The overall objective of these studies is to explore and address a variety of issues and features of the discipline of economics, particularly as they relate to and represent past present...

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Estabilidad política y tributación

Estrada, Fernando; Mutascu, Mihai; Tiwari, Aviral - 2011

The present study is, in particular, an attempt to test the relationship between tax level and political stability by using some economic control variables and to see the relationship among government effectiveness, corruption, and GDP. For the purpose, we used the Vector Autoregression (VAR)...

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Estabilidad política y tributación

Estrada, Fernando - 2014

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Estabilidad política y tributación

Estrada, Fernando - 2014

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Data Science: A Primer for Economists

Gomez-Ruano, Gerardo - 2020

The last years have seen an explosion in the demand for data science skills. In this paper, I introduce the reader to the term, point out the technological jumps that allowed the rise of its methods, and give an overview of the most common ones. I close by pointing out the strengths and...

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Publish and Perish: Creative Destruction and Macroeconomic Theory

Chatelain, Jean-Bernard; Ralf, Kirsten - 2018

to econometrics and microeconomics and despite massive progress in the access to data and the use of statistical software …

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