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Showing 1 to 20 of 1001 for “"GDP"”.
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Environmental health risks, inequality and welfare beyond GDP
… welfare is significant when compared to income (GDP) per capita or to welfare that excludes these risks. While welfare in advanced economies is considerably high and closer to the United States, emerging market and developing economies who suffer the most from environmentally related mortality …
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The impact of remittances on GDP in CARICOM
… where remittances are measured as a share of GDP and economic growth is measured by GDP per capita growth. Using multivariate linear regression analysis and the Generalised Method of Moments (GMM) the researcher tested the hypothesis that remittances have a positive relationship on GDP per …
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Using Mixed Frequency Data to Forecast Recessions and GDP
… recessions in the US and Canada, as well as GDP in a selection of OECD countries. The first chapter combines daily and weekly financial data with monthly macroeconomic indicators in a mixed frequency probit (MFP) regression to forecast and nowcast US and Canadian recessions. This chapter adds …
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Nowcasting GDP using dynamic factor model: A Bayesian approach
… before the direct measure (such as quarterly GDP figure) is disseminated. Dynamic factor models (DFMs) are widely used in econometrics to bridge series with different frequencies and achieve a reduction in dimensionality. However, most of the research using DFMs often assumes the number of …
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Unlocking Japan's potential GDP : has the land myth disappeared
Thesis (M.B.A.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 2000.
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Nowcasting Brazilian GDP: a performance assessment of dynamic factor models
… dynamic factor model’s forecasts for Brazilian GDP. Our approach takes into account mixed frequencies and can handle missing data. We implement three models: the first is based on the Principal Components Analysis methodology; the second employs a two-step estimation method with quarterly …
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Predicting surprises to GDP : a comparison of econometric and machine learning techniques
… forecasts of specific data items, typically GDP growth in the context of economics. We alter this approach by targeting surprises to GDP growth, where the expectation is defined as the consensus estimate of economists and a surprise is a deviation of the realized value from the expectation. …
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Determinants of GDP: A VECM Forecasting and Granger Causality Analysis for Eight European Countries
… to proxy for components of expenditure based GDP for eight European countries, namely Cyprus, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Portugal, and Spain. Due to the identification of I(1) cointegrated variables, the analysis is performed within a VECM framework, that models each country …
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Analyzing the relationship between the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of Lesotho and manufacturing: 1997to 2007
… are used to analyze the relationship between the GDP of Lesotho and the GDP of manufacturing. The secondary data is analyzed using Statistical Packages for Social Sciences (SPSS) and Excel. The major finding is that there exists a strong positive linear relationship ( r = 0.986) between the GDP of …
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Ein Knockout-Mausmodell für Congenital Disorder of Glycosylation-IIc: Defizienz des Golgi-GDP-Fucose-Transporters
… II') deutlich. Aufgrund eines Defektes des Golgi-GDP-Fucose-Transporters (SLC35C1) zeigen die Patienten eine Hypofucosylierung von Glykoproteinen und weisen als klinische Symptome mentale und Wachstumsretardierung, eine persistierende Leukocytose und schwere Infektionen auf. Gegenstand dieser …
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Estimating the relationship between GDP growth and Government expenditure in Libya: an analysis of Wagner’s Law
… expenditure and gross domestic product (GDP) has been subject to extensive research both in the field of public finance and macroeconomic modelling. More than one hundred years ago Adolph Wagner proposed a positive correlation between the level of gross domestic product growth and public …
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Molecular characterisation of XvVTC2, a gene coding for a GDP-L-galactose phosphorylase from Xerophyta viscosa
Climate change is predicted to have a negative impact on world food security in the next 40 years. Resurrection plants can withstand highly variable and harsh climatic conditions. This makes them ideal candidates to elucidate possible mechanisms which can be used to adapt crop plants to tolerate …
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An assessment of the relationship between Global Competitiveness Index scores and national GDP per capita growth rates
An increasing amount of attention is paid by the media, and political and business leaders to national competitiveness indices. As globalisation increases and the difficulties of the financial crisis linger on, leaders look towards global benchmarks such as the World Economic Forum‟s Global …
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The Impact of External Shocks on Nigeria’s GDP Performance within the Context of the Global Financial Crisis
This research examines the impact of external shocks on Nigeria’s output performance for the period 1981 – 2015. It aims to bring to the fore the importance of considering external shocks during policy design and implementation. The multivariate VAR and VECM frameworks were used to evaluate the …
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Methods to enable the detection of targeted AmphDI glycosyltransferase mutants that transfer GDP-C2’epimycosamine to amphoteronolide
… of the aglycone acceptor AmdeB with GDP-mycosamine in the biosynthesis of AmB. Using the reverse glycosylation reaction, we identified robust detecting of deglycosylation product amphoternolide (AmdeB) using AmB as starting material. Unfortunately, C2’epiAmB was not accepted by AmphDI …
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Inward foreign direct investment (FDI) and economic growth in Zambia: a bivariate causality link between FDI and GDP.
… advantages to host countries among which is GDP growth, technological transfer, knowledge transfer and sustainable benefits such as employment creation, empirical investigations are all the more necessary to ascertain any such relationships. The paper attempts to fill the knowledge gap in the …
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Inward foreign direct investment (FDI) and economic growth in Zambia: a bivariate causality link between FDI and GDP.
… advantages to host countries among which is GDP growth, technological transfer, knowledge transfer and sustainable benefits such as employment creation, empirical investigations are all the more necessary to ascertain any such relationships. The paper attempts to fill the knowledge gap in the …
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HML, SMB, and GDP: Do Fama and French Factors Contain Information for Future Domestic Product in the United States?
… to future real Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth in the United States. Using the factor returns from 1993 to 2012 contrasting against future GDP growth from 1994 to 2013, the outcome of this study suggests that the performance of the two strategies contains possible links to future …
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