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The accuracy of forecasts made for the structure of consumer basket : a comparative analysis between euro area and Romania
Bratu Simionescu, Mihaela - In: Revista de métodos cuantitativos para la economía y … 15 (2013), pp. 87-100
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Artificial neural networks for predicting real estate prices
Núñez Tabales, Julia M.; Caridad y Ocerin, José María; … - In: Revista de métodos cuantitativos para la economía y … 15 (2013), pp. 29-44
Econometric models, in the estimation of real estate prices, are a useful and realistic approach for buyers and for local and fiscal authorities. From the classical hedonic models to more data driven procedures, based on Artificial Neural Networks (ANN), many papers have appeared in economic...
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Deutsche Industrie stemmt sich gegen die Krise im Euroraum
Lucke, Dorothea - In: DIW-Wochenbericht : Wirtschaft, Politik, Wissenschaft 79 (2012) 48, pp. 16-24
Die Industrie in Deutschland hat bis zum dritten Quartal das Produktionsniveau des Vorjahres knapp halten können. Sie … Industrieproduktion von lediglich 0,1 Prozent. Als Stützpfeiler erweisen sich dabei erneut die in Deutschland traditionell starken … production level as in 2011. In the course of the year, it has been faced with a strong decline in demand both in Germany and …
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The effectiveness of stock prices on the phase of short-term interest rates : evidence from Eastern European countries
Yıldırım, Nurtac; Ozcelebi, Oguzhan; Kansu, Aydan - In: Advances in management & applied economics 3 (2013) 4, pp. 21-35
In recent years the issue of the role of asset prices in monetary setting has become increasingly topical since booms and busts in asset market are associated with the fluctuations in overall economic activity through its impacts on aggregate spending. In this study, we use Smooth Transition...
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Hedging Italian equity mutual fund returns during the recent financial turmoil : a duration-dependent Markov-switching approach
Zagaglia, Paolo - In: Journal of applied finance & banking 3 (2013) 3, pp. 325-337
We study optimal hedging design for returns on an Italian equity mutual fund index since 2008. Alternative hedging instruments include one-month futures contracts for FTSE-MIB, FTSE100 and Xetra DAX. We use bivariate models of our Italian equity mutual fund index and each hedging instrument to...
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A chronology of turning points in economic activity : Spain, 1850 – 2011
Berge, Travis J.; Jordà, Òscar - In: SERIEs : Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 4 (2013) 1, pp. 1-34
This paper codifies in a systematic and transparent way a historical chronology of business cycle turning points for Spain reaching back to 1850 at annual frequency, and 1939 at monthly frequency. Such an exercise would be incomplete without assessing the new chronology itself and against...
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Sommergrundlinien 2013
Fichtner, Ferdinand; Junker, Simon; Baldi, Guido; … - In: DIW-Wochenbericht : Wirtschaft, Politik, Wissenschaft 80 (2013) 25, pp. 3-44
Die deutsche Wirtschaft wird wegen des schwachen Winterhalbjahres in diesem Jahr nur um 0,4 Prozent wachsen. Allerdings dürfte die Schwächephase wohl bereits überwunden sein; im kommenden Jahr wird das Wachstum mit 1,8 Prozent kräftig sein. Die Weltkonjunktur ist wieder auf einen...
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Herbstgrundlinien 2013
Fichtner, Ferdinand; Junker, Simon; Baldi, Guido; … - In: DIW-Wochenbericht : Wirtschaft, Politik, Wissenschaft 80 (2013) 38, pp. 3-40
und im kommenden Jahr bei knapp vier Prozent liegen, nach etwa drei Prozent im laufenden Jahr. In Deutschland war die … and is expected to grow at about four per cent in the coming year, after three per cent in 2013. Growth in Germany was …
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"Shelter from the storm?" - Danish flexicurity and the crisis
Madsen, Per - In: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies 2 (2013), pp. 1-19
The Danish model won fame for its performance during the 1990s and the beginning of the 2000-years and took a position as a model for the European Employment Strategy and a much cited example of a real life flexicurity model. Like most other European countries Denmark has now fallen into a deep...
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MICA-BBVA : a factor model of economic and financial indicators for short-term GDP forecasting
Camacho, Máximo; Doménech, Rafael - In: SERIEs : Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 3 (2012) 4, pp. 475-497
In this paper we extend the Stock and Watson’s (Leading economic indicators, new approaches and forecasting records, 1991) single-index dynamic factor model in an econometric framework that has the advantage of combining information from real and financial indicators published at different...
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