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Response to Mr. Salim Kadri Kerimi regarding his ‘scientific’ critique of my article on the Emigration of Kosovo-Metohija Albanians in the 1950s [PDF]

Historijski pogledi
Adducing arguments underpinned by relevant literature the article refutes point by point the Salim K. Kerimi’s critique of our article on emigration of the Kosovo Albanians into Turkey during the 1950s that appeared in the journal Tokovi istorije ...
Zoran Janjetović
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Dynamic Factor analysis of industry sector default rates and implication for Portfolio Credit Risk Modelling [PDF]

In this paper we use a reduced form model for the analysis of Portfolio Credit Risk. For this purpose, we fit a Dynamic Factor model, DF, to a large dataset of default rates proxies and macrovariables for Italy.
Andrea Cipollini, Giuseppe Missaglia
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Assemblages as Ecologies

EAR
In this essay I draw on my art research and installation ‘Earthly Bodies, Subterranean Rhythms’ to posit assemblages as ecologies: platforms where specific agencies and interactions occur at different scales, including microscopic levels.
Irene Aldazabal
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Differential Evolution for Multiobjective Portfolio Optimization [PDF]

Financial portfolio optimization is a challenging problem. First, the problem is multiobjective (i.e.: minimize risk and maximize profit) and the objective functions are often multimodal and non smooth (e.g.: value at risk).
Sandra Paterlini, Thiemo Krink
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A Dynamic Politico-Economic Model of Intergenerational Contracts [PDF]

This paper investigates the conditions for the emergence of implicit intergenerational contracts without assuming reputation mechanisms, commitment technology and altruism.
Alessia Russo, Francesco Lancia
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Measuring Variance in Subnational Regimes: Results from an Expert-Based Operationalization of Democracy in the Argentine Provinces Midiendo la variación de los regímenes subnacionales: Resultados de una operacionalización basada en expertos de la democracia en las provincias argentinas

Journal of Politics in Latin America, 2010
This paper presents an expert-based operationalization strategy to measure the degree of democracy in the Argentine provinces. Starting with a mainstream and “thick” definition of regime type, I assess each of its aspects using a subjective or perception-
Carlos Gervasoni
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Fiscal Foresight and the Effects of Government Spending [PDF]

We study the effects of government spending by using a structural, large dimensional, dynamic factor model. We find that the government spending shock is non-fundamental for the variables commonly used in the structural VAR literature, so that its ...
Luca Gambetti, Mario Forni
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Redistribution and the Notion of Social Status [PDF]

In this paper we study the impact of redistributive policies when agents can signal their relative standing by spending on a conspicuous good. In particular, we analyze how the shape of the status function (i.e.
Ennio Bilancini, Leonardo Boncinelli
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Holocaust With(out) Bullets: The Public and Property of the Jewish People from Šabac and the Kladovo Transport 1941–1944

AM: Art + Media, 2017
This paper attempts to illustrate the role the municipal authorities in Šabac, which were headed by wartime mayor Branko Petrović, and which were part of Milan Aćimović’s collaborationist administration and Milan Nedić’s government, played in the process
Sanja Petrović Todosijević
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Self-Commitment-Institutions and Cooperation in Overlapping Generations Games [PDF]

This paper focuses on a two-period OLG economy with public imperfect observability over the intergenerational cooperative dimension. Individual endowment is at free disposal and perfectly observable.
Alessia Russo, Francesco Lancia
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