Springer Texts in Statistics Series Editors: G. Casella S. Fienberg I. Olkin For further volumes: http://www.springer.com/series/417 Gareth James • Daniela Witten • Trevor Hastie Robert Tibshirani An Introduction to Statistical Learning with Applications in R 123 Gareth James Department of Information and Operations Management University of Southern California Los Angeles‚ CA‚ USA Daniela Witten Department of Biostatistics University of Washington Seattle‚ WA‚ USA Trevor Hastie Department
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“Econometrics of Event Studies” S. P Khotari and Jerold B. Warner Forthcoming in B. Espen Eckbo (ed.)‚ Handbook of Corporate Finance: Empirical Corporate Finance‚ Volume A (Handbooks in Finance Series‚ Elsevier/North-Holland)‚ Ch. 1‚ 2006 Econometrics of Event Studies S.P. Kothari Sloan School of Management‚ MIT Jerold B. Warner William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration University of Rochester May 19‚ 2006 Key words: Event study‚ abnormal returns‚ short-horizon
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The Use of Student Assessment for Policy and Learning Improvement Education Policy and Reform Unit (EPR) Education Policy Research Working Document No. 1 Published by UNESCO Bangkok Asia and Pacific Regional Bureau for Education Mom Luang Pin Malakul Centenary Building 920 Sukhumvit Road‚ Prakanong‚ Klongtoey Bangkok 10110‚ Thailand © UNESCO 2013 All rights reserved The designations employed and the presentation of material throughout this publication do not imply the expression
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P O L I C Y R E S E A RC H W O R K I N G P A PE R How Foreign Investment Affects Host Countries 1745 Foreign direct investment may promote economic development by helping to improve productivity Magnus Blomström Ari Kokko growth and exports in the multinationals’ host countries. But the exact nature of the relationship between foreign multinational corporations and their host economies seems to vary between industries and countries. The World Bank International Economics Department International
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“Voluntary” Approaches to Environmental Regulation: A Survey Thomas P. Lyon tlyon@indiana.edu and John W. Maxwell jwmax@indiana.edu Kelley School of Business Indiana University Bloomington IN 47405-1701 ____________________________________ Forthcoming in Environmental Economics: Past‚ Present and Future‚ edited by Maurizio Franzini and Antonio Nicita; Aldershot‚ Hampshire: Ashgate Publishing Ltd.‚ forthcoming May 1999. 1 1. Introduction In the 1970s and 1980s most developed
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CHAPTER - I INTRODUCTION 1.1 INTRODUCTION Both the domestic and foreign arrivals have shown a rapid increase with India emerging as a vibrant and varied tourist destinations. The domestic tourism industry grew at a rate of 10.7 % in whereas foreign arrivals at 8.1% in 2010 (Indian Tourism Statistics‚2010). To feed this splurge in arrivals hotels are booming across India and this most importantly has not been restricted to just metros. Even second tier cities like Bhopal‚ Amritsar‚ Surat‚ Ranchi
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Mostly Harmless Econometrics: An Empiricist’ Companion s Joshua D. Angrist Massachusetts Institute of Technology Jörn-Ste¤en Pischke The London School of Economics March 2008 ii Contents Preface Acknowledgments Organization of this Book xi xiii xv I Introduction 1 3 9 10 12 16 1 Questions about Questions 2 The Experimental Ideal 2.1 2.2 2.3 The Selection Problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Random Assignment Solves the Selection
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WAVES OF INTERNATIONAL MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS Abstract Over the past two decades‚ cross-border M&As have totaled over eight trillion dollars and have fluctuated widely from year to year. In this paper‚ I establish four key facts about the dynamic patterns of cross-border mergers and the factors that drive them: (1) Cross-border mergers come in waves that are highly correlated with business cycles. (2) Most mergers occur when both the acquirer and the target economies are booming. (3) Merger
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Table of Contents Table of Contents 1 Affirmative Arguments 5 1. Academics – single-gender classrooms for public school students would benefit academic achievement tremendously‚ and help to close achievement gaps. 5 South Korea: South Korea is a good model with which to evaluate single-gender classrooms. 5 Outperformance: South Korean single-gender schools do better despite being resource-deficient compared to coeducational schools. 5 Test Scores: Single-gender schools in South Korea exhibit better
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Non Banking Financial Institutions Non-Banking Financial Institutions (NBFI) v/s Banks in India – Why NBFI are doing much business than Banks? A study of Kolkata based Upper and Middle Class Consumers. INTRODUCTION In the era of globalization and liberalization the development of financial sector has played and important role in the economy of India. With the services offered by banks and non-banking financial institutions (NBFI) the life of consumer in India has completely changed. Borrowing
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