Essays on forecasting life expectancy and fiscal sustainability 1

... Results 10 6 2.6 Discussion 11 3 2.7 EGARCH-in-Mean Forecasting Model 11 8 2.8 Concluding Remarks 12 7 References 12 8 Essay 3: Fiscal Impacts of Population Ageing in Singapore 13 9 3 .1 Introduction 13 9 ... Models 16 1. 5 Multivariate Conditional Volatility Models 30 1. 6 Lee-Carter Model with Time-Varying Correlations 41 1.7 Estimation Results of LC-VC-GARCH Model 43 1. 8...

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... Contributions Monitoring vs Output Monitoring Weak Dominance of Contributions Monitoring We are going to propose a feasible contributions monitoring contract that weakly dominates the output monitoring ... contributions monitoring Strict Dominance of Contributions Monitoring Before showing strict dominance of contributions monitoring, let us note a property of the output monit...

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... health, life expectancy, and health care spending l ife expectancy among the elderly has been improving for many decades,1 and there is evidence that the health of the elderly has ... Medicare and on total health care spending for the elderly. 6 Some studies have suggested that the improving health of the elderly will moderate fiscal pressures...

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... graduated with a M.Sc in Economics in August 2004 iv DISSERTATION ABSTRACT THREE ESSAYS ON REAL ESTATE, ENVIRONMENTAL, AND URBAN ECONOMICS USING THE HEDONIC PRICE MODEL TECHNIQUE Andres Jauregui Doctor ... Stephen L McFarland Acting Dean Graduate School THREE ESSAYS ON REAL ESTATE, ENVIRONMENTAL, AND URBAN ECONOMICS USING THE HEDONIC PR...

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... credit growth and banking structure of the Central and Eastern European Countries (CEE) The first essay studies the importance of bank ownership on this growth, the second explores the influence of ... Credit Growth in Central and Eastern European Countries, studies the importance of bank ownership structure for the growth of cr...

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... the exploration vs exploitation construct to define innovation strategy—explorative innovation strategy vs exploitative innovation strategy, and test how exploration and exploitation can jointly ... firm-level innovation survey data, this research examines several important facets of innovation, including innovation strategy, innovation in services, innovation networks,...

Ngày tải lên: 12/09/2015, 10:52

... or reduction in the optimal level of employment amongst the firms Hence, we have this non-monotonic relationship between unemployment and technology adoption and also unemployment and human capital ... presentation I conducted and the summer meeting of the North American Economics and Finance Association held at the 80th Western Economics Association conference I would also li...

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... McGraw-Hill Companies NEONATOLOGY: MANAGEMENT, PROCEDURES, ON-CALL PROBLEMS, DISEASES, AND DRUGS - 5th Ed (2004) FRONT MATTER TITLE PAGE a LANGE clinical manual Neonatology: Management, Procedures, ... (ECMO) 13 2 12 Infant Transport 13 6 13 Follow-up of High-Risk Infants 13 9 14 Studies for Neurologic Evaluation 14 4 Neuroimaging 14 4 / Electrographic Studies 1...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 05:21

... Chapter 15 : Performance Testing and Tuning an Application Chapter 16 : Conclusion: Making J2EE Work for You Appendix A: Implementing View Technologies Index 15 43 73 11 3 17 9 203 2 51 285 311 363 ... 363 393 4 41 515 583 611 675 683 711 "Rod Johnson has done a superb job of covering the design and technical aspects of successfully building J2EE applications Rod's straight f...

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... ESSAYS ON FISCAL SUSTAINABILITY AND TAX SMOOTHING, AND FISCAL POLICY SIMULATION EXPERIMENTS FOR SRI LANKA J M ANANDA JAYAWICKRAMA [MA (Thammasat)] [BA (Hons.) (Peradeniya)] ... macroeconomic impact of various deficit reduction methods We this exercise for Sri Lanka, a less developed country stuck in a prolonged civil war For Sri Lanka, both fiscal sus...

Ngày tải lên: 12/09/2015, 10:52

... (2004) and references therein Conclusion In the paper we propose and investigate a new nonstationary nonparametric volatility model The model can generate the long memory property in volatility and ... Methods 40 3.2 Evaluation Criterion 43 3.3 Estimation and Forecast Evaluation Results 44 Conclusion 47 Chapter 3: Multi-step Forecasting of Realized Volatility Measure 53 Introd...

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