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Free Trade Agreements and Volatility of Stock Returns and Exchange Rates: Evidence from NAFTA [PDF]

, 2017
This paper uses GARCH models and daily data to investigate the effect of the Canada – U.S. Free Trade Agreement (CUSFTA) and NAFTA on the volatility of, and the relationship between stock market returns and changes in bilateral exchange rates of the ...
Daelemans, Bram, Daniels, Joseph P., Nourzad, Farrokh   +2 more
core   +2 more sources

Machine Learning Approaches to Forecast the Realized Volatility of Crude Oil Prices

Journal of Forecasting, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper presents an evaluation of the accuracy of machine learning (ML) techniques in forecasting the realized volatility of West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude oil prices. We compare several ML algorithms, including regularization, regression trees, random forests, and neural networks, to several heterogeneous autoregressive (HAR) models ...
Talha Omer, Kristofer Månsson, Pär Sjölander, Gazi Salah Uddin   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

An interdisciplinary review of the interplay of conflict, socio‐economic factors, and land cover and vegetation dynamics in Colombia

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Colombia's forests play a crucial role in preserving biodiversity and mitigating climate change, but they are currently facing severe degradation, particularly after the 2016 Peace Agreement. Our literature review highlights a growing research interest in this topic and demonstrates how interdisciplinary approaches combining diverse methods can enhance
Estefanía Muñoz, Jesús A. Anaya, Nicola Clerici, Lina M. Estupinan‐Suarez, Isabel Lopera, Solveig Richter, Alejandro Salazar, Carlos A. Sierra, Andrés Tangarife‐Escobar, Miguel D. Mahecha, David Montero, Pablo Palacios‐Rodríguez, Pablo Ramos, Santiago Botía   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

"Peso problem" explanations for term structure anomalies [PDF]

We examine the empirical evidence on the expectation hypothesis of the term structure of interest rates in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany using the Campbell-Shiller (1991) regressions and a vector-autoregressive methodology.
David A. Marshall, Geert Bekaert, Robert J. Hodrick   +2 more
core   +3 more sources

Assessing Eco‐Efficiency in Municipal Solid Waste Management Integrating Heterogeneity: A Latent Class Stochastic Frontier Analysis

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The measurement of eco‐efficiency in the municipal solid waste (MSW) sector has garnered significant attention due to the substantial environmental impacts of unsustainable MSW management and the high operational costs associated with public service provision.
Ramon Sala‐Garrido, Alexandros Maziotis, Maria Molinos‐Senante   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Parámetros productivos en pollos broiler utilizando torta de Sacha inchi (Plukenetia volubilis) como sustituto parcial de la soya (Glycine max)

Revista Científica, 2023
El trabajo de investigación se realizó en la Unidad de Experimentación Pecuaria (UEPE) de la Universidad Estatal del Sur de Manabí (UNESUM) Cantón Jipijapa, Ecuador, donde el objetivo fue evaluar los parámetros productivos, índice de conversión ...
José Luis Alcívar-Cobeña, Raquel Vera-Velázquez, Erick Alexis Marcillo-Plua, Wilfrido Javier Del Valle-Holguín, Richard Antonio Cornejo-Cornejo, Blanca Soledad Indacochea-Ganchozo, Madeleidy Martínez-Pérez   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Does Carbon Intensity Affect the Cost of Equity? An Empirical Study From Mexico

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Climate change poses significant risks for companies, particularly in emerging countries like Mexico, where sustainability perceptions are evolving. This study analyzes how carbon emissions affect the cost of equity capital (CoE) for Mexican firms.
Guillermo Pérez‐Elizundia, Ricardo Cristhian Morales Pelagio, Jesús F. Lampón   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Edification of Manuela Xiqués: Slavery, Finance, Biography, and the Construction of Modern Barcelona

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT An analysis of the dual biographies, economic and domestic, of Manuela Xiqués, an enslaver from nineteenth‐century Cuba and Spain, deepens our understanding of the role of European and Creole women in the nineteenth‐century Atlantic. This essay foregrounds the role of literature, namely family biography, as a locus of the processes of ...
Lisa Surwillo, Martín Rodrigo Alharilla
wiley   +1 more source

Hospitaller Revenues, Bourbon Regalism: The Financial Administration of the Grand Priory of Castile and León under an American Parvenu

History, EarlyView.
Abstract After the vicissitudes of the War of the Spanish Succession (1701–14), the consolidation of the Bourbon Monarchy in early eighteenth‐century Spain allowed Philip V's ministry to implement the so‐called Nueva Planta in his various kingdoms and lordships of the Crown of Aragon, but also in Castile.
Roberto Quirós Rosado
wiley   +1 more source

AGRICULTURE IN A SOCIALIST CITY: Towards an Alter‐Urban Political Ecology

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Urban political ecology has developed as a critique of capitalist urbanization. This article develops the concept of alter‐urban political ecology to define urban environments emerging not from capitalist urbanization but from efforts to transform it. Drawing on archival research and ethnographic fieldwork in five urban farms in socialist Cuba,
Gustav Cederlöf
wiley   +1 more source