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Regional trade agreements and agricultural trade: An analysis of Zimbabwe’s agricultural trade flows
Cogent Economics & Finance, 2022 The main aim of the study was to assess the impact of Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) and Southern African Development Community Free Trade Area (SADC-FTA) on Zimbabwe’s agricultural trade flows.
Admire Chawarika +2 more
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Do South African state-owned entities follow the pecking order theory of capital structure? [PDF]
Public and Municipal Finance, 2021 In corporate finance, the pecking-order theory suggests that companies adhere to a particular financing hierarchy, with internal funding taking preference over external funding, and debt financing taking preference over equity.
Ferina Marimuthu +1 more
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Fiscal Decentralisation and Inequality in Indonesia [PDF]
Экономика региона, 2020 The study examined the effect of fiscal decentralisation on both vertical and horizontal inequality in 32 provinces of Indonesia in the period from 2005 to 2014 using several fixed effects (FE) estimations. Moreover, we assessed the mediating role of
Kumba Digdowiseiso +2 more
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Management’s Discretionary Assessments of Goodwill Impairments—Evidence from STOXX Europe 600
International Journal of Financial Studies, 2023 The main issues of accounting reporting regarding goodwill are whether a firm’s management reliably conveys their private information about future earnings, and whether they disclose value-relevant and useful information to accounting users.
Frode Kjærland +3 more
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Entropy, 2022 This paper considers the problem of comparing several means under the one-way Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) setup. In ANOVA, outliers and heavy-tailed error distribution can seriously hinder the treatment effect, leading to false positive or false ...
Jagannath Das +4 more
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Journal of Business Economics and Management, 2021 Stock markets stand as a financial mechanism that provides liquidity for firms and offers diversification benefits for investors. Stock markets in the Eastern European countries are weakform efficient which exposes them to speculative prices.
Florin Aliu, Orkhan Nadirov, Artor Nuhiu
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De utryghedsmæssige konsekvenser af udsathed for kriminalitet i Danmark
Nordisk Tidsskrift for Kriminalvidenskab, 2020 This article examines the consequences of victimisation in relation to feeling of safety in Denmark.2 Using various statistical models, we address two general questions: First, how do different victimisation patterns affect victims’ feelings of safety ...
Rune H. Scherg, Anders Ejrnæs
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Semiparametric Fixed-Effects Estimator [PDF]
The Stata Journal: Promoting communications on statistics and Stata, 2013 In this article, we describe the Stata implementation of Baltagi and Li's (2002, Annals of Economics and Finance 3: 103–116) series estimator of partially linear panel-data models with fixed effects. After a brief description of the estimator itself, we describe the new command xtsemipar.
Libois, François, Verardi, Vincenzo
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AI ecosystem pillars and economic growth: Implications for knowledge economy architecture from AI vibrancy subindices [PDF]
Knowledge & Performance ManagementType of the article: Research Article AI is widely regarded by the IMF and the World Bank as a catalyst for growth. AI should be understood as a multidimensional socio-technical system embedded across institutions, industries, and society.
Kalilla Abdullayev +6 more
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Behaviormetrika, 2006 A fixed effect item response theory (IRT) model is developed for modeling group specific item parameters. Two applications are presented. The first application is that the proposed model can be used to detect whether a response mechanism is ignorable using the splitter item technique.
Fox, Jean-Paul +2 more
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