Economics and Statistics
Mathematics vs Statistics in tackling Environmental Economics uncertainty
... Environmental Economics aspects are usually willing to depart from default assumptions and adopt a model to describe the problem under ...and Statistics is the Normal distribution assumption adopted by ...
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From scattered data to ideological education: economics, statistics and the state in Ghana, 1948 1966
... with economics and political economy: three chapters focus on the production and dissemination of statistical ...of statistics has become a rich genre (Desrosières 2000) encompassing different types of ...
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U.S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE ECONOMICS AND STATISTICS ADMINISTRATION Economic and Statistical Analysis Budget. Budget Estimates.
... provide statistics on physical structures, capital equipment and software, and consumer durable goods held by businesses, governments, and ...provide statistics on Federal, state, and local government ...
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An Aging World: International Population Reports. Issued June U.S. Department of Commerce Economics and Statistics Administration
... common in Europe in recent years, rather than a “cliff edge” exit from and research holds that the trend is the labor market was one of the associated with fewer opportunities preferences found among respon- for training ...
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Finance and Economics Discussion Series Divisions of Research & Statistics and Monetary Affairs Federal Reserve Board, Washington, D.C.
... Concerns about a larger Federal Reserve footprint in short-term funding markets were raised at the June 2014 FOMC meeting, at which “a number of participants noted that a relatively la[r] ...
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Finance and Economics Discussion Series Divisions of Research & Statistics and Monetary Affairs Federal Reserve Board, Washington, D.C.
... We employ empirical pricing models for mortgage-backed security (MBS) yields and for mortgage rates to measure deviations from normal market functioning in order to assess how the Feder[r] ...
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Finance and Economics Discussion Series Divisions of Research & Statistics and Monetary Affairs Federal Reserve Board, Washington, D.C.
... Summary statistics on all variables for NSP2 tracts, by county, are shown in Table 5; Appendix Table 2 shows summary statistics for the variables, combining all tracts and ...
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Finance and Economics Discussion Series Divisions of Research & Statistics and Monetary Affairs Federal Reserve Board, Washington, D.C.
... We use a panel of inventory and sales data from 41 vehicle brands over 30 years and the solutions to two well-known inventory planning problems to show that vehicle inventories appear t[r] ...
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Finance and Economics Discussion Series Divisions of Research & Statistics and Monetary Affairs Federal Reserve Board, Washington, D.C.
... semiconductors developed by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) show that quality-adjusted semiconductor prices are not falling nearly as rapidly as they did prior to the mid-2000s. This development implies, all ...
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Finance and Economics Discussion Series Divisions of Research & Statistics and Monetary Affairs Federal Reserve Board, Washington, D.C.
... descriptive statistics suggest that grantees did indeed focus their NSP2 investments in low-income tracts with distressed housing markets, which the program was intended to ...
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Finance and Economics Discussion Series Divisions of Research & Statistics and Monetary Affairs Federal Reserve Board, Washington, D.C.
... But if the private sector is able to supply the public good more cheaply, then as long as an increase in other individuals’ donations lowers the magnitude (in absolute value) of the pric[r] ...
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Finance and Economics Discussion Series Divisions of Research & Statistics and Monetary Affairs Federal Reserve Board, Washington, D.C.
... The credit rationing channel described here indeed was important in macro-econometric models pre-1980 (e.g., the description of the MPS model in Brayton and Mauskopf, 1985), although t[r] ...
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Finance and Economics Discussion Series Divisions of Research & Statistics and Monetary Affairs Federal Reserve Board, Washington, D.C.
... Finally, we restrict the sample to households whose heads were at least 25 years old, though we did not impose maximum age restrictions in our baseline analysis because we were particularly interested in exploring the ...
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Finance and Economics Discussion Series Divisions of Research & Statistics and Monetary Affairs Federal Reserve Board, Washington, D.C.
... Figure 4 examines one potential explanation for why freeze and non-freeze plans may differ in their accruals, specifically the age and service distribution of the workforce. The left column of graphs shows the age and ...
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Finance and Economics Discussion Series Divisions of Research & Statistics and Monetary Affairs Federal Reserve Board, Washington, D.C.
... Columns correspond to contract name, the first date in the sample, the number of margin changes, the number of margin increases, the number of margin decreases, the average number of day[r] ...
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Finance and Economics Discussion Series Divisions of Research & Statistics and Monetary Affairs Federal Reserve Board, Washington, D.C.
... There are four sets of parameters that we calibrate: 1) standard parameters, such as the discount factor, the coefficient of risk aversion, and the risk-free interest rate; 2) parame- te[r] ...
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Finance and Economics Discussion Series Divisions of Research & Statistics and Monetary Affairs Federal Reserve Board, Washington, D.C.
... There are four sets of parameters that we calibrate: 1) standard parameters, such as the discount factor, the coefficient of risk aversion, and the risk-free interest rate; 2) parameters[r] ...
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Finance and Economics Discussion Series Divisions of Research & Statistics and Monetary Affairs Federal Reserve Board, Washington, D.C.
... The welfare level is low compared to average level of spending on prescription drugs by the elderly and given the level of benefits being provided, and suggests that either HMO enrollees[r] ...
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Finance and Economics Discussion Series Divisions of Research & Statistics and Monetary Affairs Federal Reserve Board, Washington, D.C.
... If bank pricing reflects a compromise between exploiting old customers (made possible by switching costs) and attracting new ones, then it follows that banks located in markets with gr[r] ...
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Finance and Economics Discussion Series Divisions of Research & Statistics and Monetary Affairs Federal Reserve Board, Washington, D.C.
... In our previous paper, we presented separate estimates of the three types of equity extraction: (1) extraction resulting from existing home sales (equal to first lien mortgages used to[r] ...
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