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What Explains Changes in the Level of Abuse Against Civilians during the Peruvian Civil War?
Using a new monthly time-series data set, we explore the factors associated with variations in the number of civilians killed or wounded by participants in the civil war in Peru during the 1980s and 1990s. We find that an ...
An empirical investigation of the Maslov limit order market model
Modeling of financial market data for detecting important market characteristics as well as their abnormalities plays a key role in identifying their behavior. Researchers have proposed different types of techniques to ...
Measuring Parity in Sports Leagues with Draws: Further Comments
This paper re-examines the calculation of the relative standard deviation (RSD) measure of competitive balance in leagues in which draws are possible outcomes. Some key conclusions emerging from the exchange between ...
Oil Prices, Exchange Rates and Emerging Stock Markets
While two different streams of literature exist investigating 1) the relationship between oil prices and emerging market stock prices and 2) oil prices and exchange rates, relatively little is known about the relationship ...
Capital Accumulation, Non-traded Goods and International Macroeconomic Dynamics with Heterogeneous Firms
This paper examines international business cycle transmission within a two-country dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model featuring an endogenously determined trade pattern. In contrast to existing literature, this ...
Expropriation of Foreign Direct Investments: Sectoral Patterns from 1993 to 2006
This paper documents expropriation of foreign direct investment (FDI) across all developing countries for the 1993-2006 period, extending work by Kobrin (1980, 1984) and Minor (1994). This unique data set on worldwide ...
Limitations of the relative standard deviation of win percentages for measuring competitive balance in sports leagues
The relative standard deviation of win percentages, the most widely used measure of within-season competitive balance, has an upper bound which is very sensitive to variation in the numbers of teams and games played. ...
Inertia and Herding in Humanitarian Aid Decisions
Using panel data for the period 1995-2008, we model the aid allocation decisions of the three largest official donors of humanitarian aid: the United States government, the United Kingdom government and the European ...
Norm identification in multi-agent societies
In normative multi-agent systems, the question of “how an agent identifies a norm in an agent society” has not received much attention. This paper aims at addressing this question. To this end, this paper proposes an ...
Health Technology Prioritisation: Which criteria for prioritising new technologies, and what are their relative weights?
Objectives: To review the criteria and 'other' considerations used internationally for prioritising new health technologies, and to demonstrate a conjoint-analysis methodology for deriving relative weights for the ...