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International Journal of Finance &Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study investigates how the personal characteristics of finance ministers influence political budget cycles in Africa. Using a new dataset covering 300 finance ministers across 23 countries from 1980 to 2020, we find that political budget cycles primarily take the form of increased government consumption during election years.
Christine Olivia Strong
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New Misspecification Tests for Multinomial Logit Models [PDF]
, 2019 Misspecification tests for Multinomial Logit [MNL] models are known to have low power or large size distortion. We propose two new misspecification tests.
Paap, Richard +3 more
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Climate Change Laws and European Stock Markets: An Event Analysis
International Journal of Finance &Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Under the context of the climate change we assess the impact of EU's legislative initiative on European stock markets. Specifically, we focus on its impact on energy and Environmental Social Governance (ESG) sectors for equity returns and volatility for a representative basket of EU countries (participating also in Eurozone) as well as ...
Theodoros Bratis +2 more
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International Journal of Finance &Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We use foreign trade data on both imports and exports of goods and services among a group of 15 advanced economies to determine the incomes and price elasticities of demand for exports and imports of goods, services and goods and services combined in the long run.
Tjeerd M. Boonman +2 more
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International Journal of Finance &Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper examines the impact of regulatory controls on Bitcoin's excess returns and volatility. The paper innovates by proxying changes in the regulatory environment using global Google search volume intensity data. The generated regulatory indices accurately identify episodes of regulatory tightening within cryptocurrency markets.
Robert Mullings
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BMC Medical Research MethodologyBackground In multi-site studies in clinical practice, the treatment effects may exhibit potential heterogeneity across different sites. Additionally, propensity score methods used to adjust for confounding may suffer from model misspecification, which ...
Chen Huang +3 more
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Household Consumption Intentions by Income Group During Monetary Policy Easing and Tightening
International Journal of Finance &Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We investigate how the monetary policy interest rate affects Brazilian households' consumption intentions under two distinct regimes: monetary easing and tightening cycles. Using data from low‐ and high‐income households, we assess both the magnitude and the dynamics of this relationship.
Helder Ferreira de Mendonça +1 more
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Nature Communications, 2018 Standard approaches for heritability and set testing in statistical genetics rely on parametric models that might not hold in reality and give inflated p-values.
Regev Schweiger +9 more
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Newsvendor under Mean-Variance Ambiguity and Misspecification
Consider a newsvendor problem with an unknown demand distribution. When addressing the issue of distributional uncertainty, we distinguish ambiguity under which the newsvendor does not differentiate demand distributions of common distributional ...
Chen, Zhi +3 more
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Sequential design augmentation with model misspecification
, 2007 In Response Surface Methodology (RSM) one attempts to model some variable of interest, usually as a known function of design variables. Subsequent analysis often indicates a need to move to a new region of interest.
Sutherland, Sindee S.
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