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Acall center with both contract and noncontract customers was giving priority to the contract customers only in off-peak hours, precisely when having priority was least important. In this paper, we investigate whether this is rational behavior on the part of the call center and what the...
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This work develops asymptotically optimal dividend policies to maximize the expected present value of dividends until ruin. Compound Poisson processes with regime switching are used to model the surplus and the switching (a continuous-time controlled Markov chain) represents random environment...
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Hay evidencia en la literatura sobre episodios de consolidación fiscal que producen efectos expansivos (no keynesianos) (por ejemplo, Alesina y Ardagna, 1998). En este documento replicamos este resultado para un grupo de países de la OCDE asumiendo exogeneidad de la decisión de ajuste fiscal,...
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La incertidumbre del modelo continúa siendo un reto para los investigadores aplicados. En general, al llevar a cabo una investigación empírica hay diferentes modelos/ especificaciones disponibles para estudiar el efecto de interés. Frente a esta situación, la técnica más común es...
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En este trabajo se analiza la dinámica de propagación de las perturbaciones de los ciclos económicos regionales en Europa y se identifican sus principales factores subyacentes. Asimismo, se propone un nuevo método para medir la sincronización variable en el tiempo en muestras pequeñas, que...
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The performance and economic value of public outlook forecasts has been of continuing interest to agricultural economists and market participants. This dissertation provide new and powerful evidence on the performance of outlook forecasts relative to futures prices in hog and cattle markets over...
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items according to economic theory and employs Flexible Least Squares given the presence of structural changes in the …
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This paper investigates whether the accuracy of outlook hog price forecasts can be improvedusing composite forecasts in an out-of-sample context. Price forecasts from four wellrecognizedoutlook programs are combined with futures-based forecasts, ARIMA, andunrestricted Vector Autoregressive (VAR)...
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Surveys of Professional Forecasters produce precise and timely point forecasts for key macroeconomic variables. However, the accompanying density forecasts are not as widely utilized, and there is no consensus about their quality. This is partly because such surveys are often conducted for...
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En este artículo se introducen nuevos esquemas de ponderación para promediar de modelos econométricos cuando se está interesado en combinar predicciones de variables discretas provenientes de modelos con cambios de régimen markoviano. En una aplicación empírica, se pronostican los puntos...
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