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Simple, compound and continuous interest discounts : a comparative study

Parada-Daza, José Rigoberto - In: Journal of applied finance & banking 3 (2013) 1, pp. 31-43

This article makes an analytical comparison between simple, compound and continuous interest discount factors. It studies the equivalency relations between the three discount factors. An analysis is performed for a limited time period and of normal economy interest rates. It makes use of the...

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Illiquid financial products and distribution policies : new insights

Polato, Maurizio; Floreani, Josanco - In: Journal of applied finance & banking 1 (2011) 2, pp. 155-172

Both changing investors’ behaviour and contingent events, such as financial crisis, stimulated a debate around the distribution of financial products for which an active market doesn't exist. Investing in illiquid financial instruments requires a certain degree of financial education in order...

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A time-varying parameter vector autoregression model for forecasting emerging market exchange rates

Kumar, Manish - In: International journal of economic sciences and applied … 3 (2010) 2, pp. 21-39

In this study, a vector autoregression (VAR) model with time-varying parameters (TVP) to predict the daily Indian rupee (INR)/US dollar (USD) exchange rates for the Indian economy is developed. The method is based on characterization of the TVP as an optimal control problem. The methodology is a...

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Volatility shifts and persistence in variance : evidence from the sector indices of Istanbul Stock Exchange

Çağlı, Efe Çağlar; Mandacı, Pınar Evrim; … - In: International journal of economic sciences and applied … 4 (2011) 3, pp. 119-140

This study examines the impact of volatility shifts on volatility persistence for three major sector indices of … volatility shifts which are determined by using iterated cumulative sums of squares (ICSS) and modified ICSS algorithms such as … Kappa-1 (ê-1) and Kappa-2 (ê-2). The results indicate that the inclusion of volatility shifts in the model substantially …

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On the importance of the arrival of new information

Chumacero, Rómulo A. - In: Estudios de economía 37 (2010) 2, pp. 207-215

This paper develops a framework for evaluating the importance of the arrival of new information for forecasting, estimation, and decision making. By fusing known and recently developed statistical tests and concepts, the paper provides guidelines for detecting outliers, influential observations,...

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Modeling stock market indexes with copula functions

Leśkow, Jacek; Mokrzycka, Justyna; Krawiec, Kamil - In: E-Finanse : finansowy kwartalnik internetowy 7 (2011) 2, pp. 1-16

Contemporary financial risk management is significantly based on the analysis of time series of returns. One of the most significant errors frequently committed by analysts is the predominant use of normal distributions when it is clear that the returns are not normal. Copula models and models...

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Global imbalances in current account balances

Bildirici, Melike; Kayıkçı, Fazil - In: Journal of applied finance & banking 2 (2012) 6, pp. 83-93

Persistent current account deficits were observed in some developing countries that are received substantial foreign capital in the last decades. This has raised the issue of sustainability and increased the volume of studies about the measures of sustainable current account deficits in the...

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Volatility modeling for forecasting stock index with fixed parameter distributional assumption

Rahman, Md. Mostafizur; Rahman, Md. Azizur; Hossain, … - In: Journal of applied finance & banking 3 (2013) 1, pp. 109-122

The aim of this paper is to empirically investigate the in sample and out of sample forecasting performance of several GARCH-type models such as GARCH, EGARCH and APARCH model with Gaussian, student-t, Generalized error distribution (GED), student-t with fixed DOF 10 and GED with fixed parameter...

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Seasonal adjustment versus seasonality modelling : effect on tourism demand forecasting

Gasmi, Amira - In: Advances in management & applied economics 3 (2013) 4, pp. 119-132

In this study, we treat the seasonal variation in monthly time series in the context of the Western-European tourism demand for Tunisia, by presenting different techniques of detection of seasonality and the parametric and non-parametric approaches of seasonal adjustment. Then, we compare the...

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The New Keynesian Phillips Curve in an inflation targeting country : the case of Turkey

Gozgor, Giray - In: International journal of economic sciences and applied … 6 (2013) 1, pp. 7-18

The possible short-run trade-off between the inflation (gap) and the output (gap) remains a critical policy issue for any emerging economy; particularly when an implicit or an explicit inflation targeting monetary policy is considered. The New Keynesian Phillips Curve (NKPC) has recently set up...

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