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It was demonstrated that jewelry and jewelry products price can be predicted at a several year horizon. The prediction consists of three steps. First, we show that the difference between producer price index and the index for jewelry and jewelry products is characterized by the presence of...
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In 2007, the SAVI was launched as an index designed to measure the market's expectation of the 3-month market volatility. The SAVI soon became the benchmark for measuring the market sentiment, and in this light can be thought of as a market “fear” index.Two years later, in 2009 the...
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With the introduction of the exchange-traded German wind power futures, opportunities for German wind power producers to hedge their volumetric risk are present. We propose two continuous-time multivariate models for the wind power utilization at different wind sites, and discuss the properties...
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Andrew Lo in his book, Adaptive Markets, advocates an investment product that he names a “dynamic index.” He has facilitated the operation of a variant of this dynamic indexation, “dynamic allocation,” by founding a company, AlphaSimplex. Another dynamic investment is GMO’s Benchmark...
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The consumer price index (CPI) plays a critical role in measuring inflation. Recent inflation trends, however, have … raised questions about its accuracy. This paper evaluates several of these critiques, including that the CPI fails to keep up … with rapid changes in consumer expenditure patterns; that its methodology is out of date; that the CPI does not correctly …
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Various fields of economic analysis (e.g., growth and productivity) and economic policy (e.g., monetary and social policy) rely on accurate measures of price change. Unfortunately, the price index formulae that most price statisticians consider as particularly accurate - the superlative indices...
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