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Data Mining in the Real World: Experiences, Challenges, and Recommendations
May 13, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Data mining is used regularly in a variety of industries and is continuing to gain in both popularity and acceptance. However, applying data mining methods to complex real-world tasks is far from...
Provided by Fordham University
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Encyclopedia Of Data Warehousing And Mining
November 24, 2008, 12:00am PST
When a space shuttle takes off, tiny sensors measure thousands of data points every fraction of a second, pertaining to a variety of attributes like temperature, acceleration, pressure and...
Provided by Fordham University
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Time Variation In Liquidity: The Role Of Market-Maker Inventories And Revenues
February 17, 2010, 12:00am PST
This paper shows that market-maker balance sheet and income statement variables explain time variation in liquidity, suggesting liquidity-supplier financing constraints matter. Using 11 years of...
Provided by Fordham University
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White Papers
Time Variation In Liquidity: The Role Of Market Maker Inventories And Revenues
December 31, 2008, 12:00am PST
Paper shows that market-maker balance sheet and income statement variables explain time variation in liquidity, suggesting liquidity-supplier financing constraints matter. Using 11 years of NYSE...
Provided by Fordham University
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White Papers
Who Trades With Whom, And When?
June 9, 2006, 12:00am PDT
This paper examines empirically how market participants meet on the NYSE to form trades. Pure floor trades, involving only floor brokers and the specialist, account for only 4% of trading volume...
Provided by Fordham University
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White Papers
A Model-Independent Measure Of Aggregate Idiosyncratic Risk
February 29, 2008, 12:00am PST
This paper introduces a model-independent measure of aggregate idiosyncratic risk, which does not require estimation of market betas or correlations and is based on the concept of gain from...
Provided by Fordham University
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White Papers
Euro Appreciation and Chinese Fear of Floating: Pressures from the NDF Market
December 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
This paper examines financial market data to assess the likelihood of renminbi appreciation and its implications for Chinese financial markets, given the continuing strength of the Euro against...
Provided by Fordham University
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White Papers
It?s What You Do and Who You Do It With: A Longitudinal Study of the Sense of Calling
August 13, 2009, 12:00am PDT
In this 3-1/2-year, 3- wave longitudinal survey of 352 musicians, the author build on this previous research to examine the relationship between a broader set of factors and the sense of calling...
Provided by Fordham University
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White Papers
Necessary Knowledge For Communications Policy
August 7, 2006, 12:00am PDT
Communications policymaking increasingly relies upon large-scale databases manufactured and marketed by commercial organizations. Data providers such as BIA Research, Nielsen Media Research, and...
Provided by Fordham University
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White Papers
Interstate Risk Sharing In Germany: 1970-2006
June 7, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper studies the channels of interstate risk sharing in Germany for the time period 1970 to 2006 following the methodology of Asdrubali et al. (1996). Their framework allows one to estimate...
Provided by Fordham University
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White Papers
Will The Global Financial Crisis Lead To Lower Aid? A First Look At United States ODA
January 22, 2009, 12:00am PST
Analyzing US economic and foreign aid data from 1967 to 2007, this paper investigates whether adverse economic and financial conditions are negatively linked to Official Development Assistance...
Provided by Fordham University
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White Papers
Improved Baseline Sales
February 4, 2009, 12:00am PST
This paper develops a more accurate and robust baseline sales (sales in the absence of price promotion) using Dynamic Linear Models and a Multiple Structural Change Model (DLM/MSCM). The author...
Provided by Fordham University
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Fiscal Federalism In Germany: Stabilization And Redistribution Before And After Unification
May 15, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The author provides empirical estimates of the risk-sharing and redistributive properties of the German federal fiscal system based on data from 1970 until 2006, with special attention to the...
Provided by Fordham University
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White Papers
Disability Cash Transfers In The Context Of Poverty And Unemployment: The Case Of South Africa
June 25, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Cash transfers have recently become more common in developing countries and are the subject of a growing body of research on their reach and impacts (Ellis, Devereux and White, 2009). In low...
Provided by Fordham University
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Long-Term Impact Of Investments In Early Schooling - Empirical Evidence From Rural Ethiopia
November 11, 2009, 12:00am PST
This paper identifies the cumulative impact of early schooling investments on later schooling outcomes in a developing country context using enrollment status and relative grade attainment as...
Provided by Fordham University
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White Papers
From Revolution To Evolution: Charting The Main Features Of Microfinance 2.0
February 26, 2008, 12:00am PST
The past thirty years or so has seen microfinance take off from small group-based lending experiments to several thousand financial service providers (FSPs) serving a growing portion of the...
Provided by Fordham University
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White Papers
Experience Weighted Attraction In The First Price Auction And Becker Degroot Marschak
February 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
This paper explores the performance of Experience Weighted Attraction (EWA) in two different auction institutions: First Price Sealed Bid, and Becker-DeGroot-Marschak. The results suggest that...
Provided by Fordham University
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White Papers
The Credit Default Swap Market's Determinants
March 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
This paper explores the ability of variables suggested by structural models to explain variation in CDS spread changes. Using monthly changes in CDS spreads for 333 firms from January, 2001 -...
Provided by Fordham University
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White Papers
The Credit Default Swap Market's Reaction To Earnings Announcements
March 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
This paper examines the efficiency of the CDS market by conducting a comparative event study in which both the CDS and the stock markets" responses to earnings announcements are considered. The...
Provided by Fordham University
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White Papers
Wealth, Industry And The Transition To Entrepreneurship
May 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Although the debate about the effect of wealth on entrepreneurship is now almost two decades old, there is little consensus among researchers about the significance of wealth as a determinant for...
Provided by Fordham University
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White Papers
Wealth And The Capitalist Spirit
May 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The wealth distribution in the U.S. is more unequal than either the income or earnings distribution, a fact current models of saving behavior have difficulty explaining. Using MaxWeber's (1905)...
Provided by Fordham University
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White Papers
Consumer Debt Is 130% Of Income: Avoiding Budget Constraint Orthodoxy
August 12, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Consumer theory maximizes utility subject to a budget constraint, ignoring that the ratio of consumer debt to disposable income has varied between 30% and 130%. Granger-causality tests also...
Provided by Fordham University
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White Papers
Productivity Matters For Trade Policy: Theory And Evidence
May 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
In the growth literature that investigates the effect of trade liberalization on productivity, nearly all studies assume that trade policy is determined independently of productivity, hence it is...
Provided by Fordham University
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White Papers
Heteroskedasticity And Autocorrelation Efficient (HAE) Estimation And Pivots For Jointly Evolving Series
September 17, 2008, 12:00am PDT
A new two-way map between time domain and numerical magnitudes or values domain (v-dom) provides a new solution to heteroscedasticity. Since sorted logs of squared fitted residuals are monotonic...
Provided by Fordham University
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White Papers
Dollarization As An Investment Signal In Developing Countries
September 18, 2008, 12:00am PDT
In dollarized financial systems, there exists a currency mismatch risk that could lead to financial crises. Central Banks in such economies have to adjust their foreign currency policies...
Provided by Fordham University
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White Papers
Can Debt Relief Buy Growth?
December 2, 2008, 12:00am PST
This paper investigates whether the numerous debt relief initiatives during the 1990s have had a significant effect on economic growth rates in developing countries. The major initiatives during...
Provided by Fordham University
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White Papers
Algebraic Cryptanalysis of the Data Encryption Standard
September 9, 2007, 12:00am PDT
In spite of growing importance of AES, the Data Encryption Standard is by no means obsolete. DES has never been broken from the practical point of view. The triple DES is believed very secure, is...
Provided by Fordham University
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White Papers
India-East Asian Growth, Latin American Deficits
October 3, 2006, 12:00am PDT
On the surface of it, India presents an acute case of economic schizophrenia. It is growing rapidly and inflation is low but government debt has grown even faster and deficits remain high. Over...
Provided by Fordham University
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Financial Institutions In Crisis: Modeling The Endogeneity Between Credit Risk And Capital Requirements
June 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This manuscript presents a credit-risk-based model for the establishment of minimum bank capital requirements. The structural model determines the minimum level of equity required to yield a...
Provided by Fordham University
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White Papers
Government Intervention and the CDS Market: A Look At The Market's Response To Policy Announcements During The 2007-2009 Financial Crisis
November 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper adds to the literature on the financial markets' reaction to government interventions during the 2007-2009 financial crisis by analyzing the response of US firms' credit default swap...
Provided by Fordham University
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Software
mFordham 1.1 (Mobile)
August 29, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Fordham at Your Fingertips Fordham University's first offical mobile application. This app lets you be part of the Fordham community anytime, anywhere, anyhow with many features you've asked for....
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Open Source Software: The Success of an Alternative Intellectual Property Incentive Paradigm
September 29, 2006, 12:00am PDT
Intellectual property protection in the United States is based on an incentive system. The protections provided by intellectual property law are designed to produce economic incentives to "Promote...
Provided by Fordham University
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Software
mFordham 1.1 (Mobile)
August 29, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Fordham at Your Fingertips Fordham University's first offical mobile application. This app lets you be part of the Fordham community anytime, anywhere, anyhow with many features you've asked for....
Provided by Fordham University
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White Papers
Government Intervention and the CDS Market: A Look At The Market's Response To Policy Announcements During The 2007-2009 Financial Crisis
November 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper adds to the literature on the financial markets' reaction to government interventions during the 2007-2009 financial crisis by analyzing the response of US firms' credit default swap...
Provided by Fordham University
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White Papers
Financial Institutions In Crisis: Modeling The Endogeneity Between Credit Risk And Capital Requirements
June 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This manuscript presents a credit-risk-based model for the establishment of minimum bank capital requirements. The structural model determines the minimum level of equity required to yield a...
Provided by Fordham University
-
White Papers
India-East Asian Growth, Latin American Deficits
October 3, 2006, 12:00am PDT
On the surface of it, India presents an acute case of economic schizophrenia. It is growing rapidly and inflation is low but government debt has grown even faster and deficits remain high. Over...
Provided by Fordham University
-
White Papers
Algebraic Cryptanalysis of the Data Encryption Standard
September 9, 2007, 12:00am PDT
In spite of growing importance of AES, the Data Encryption Standard is by no means obsolete. DES has never been broken from the practical point of view. The triple DES is believed very secure, is...
Provided by Fordham University
-
White Papers
Can Debt Relief Buy Growth?
December 2, 2008, 12:00am PST
This paper investigates whether the numerous debt relief initiatives during the 1990s have had a significant effect on economic growth rates in developing countries. The major initiatives during...
Provided by Fordham University
-
White Papers
Dollarization As An Investment Signal In Developing Countries
September 18, 2008, 12:00am PDT
In dollarized financial systems, there exists a currency mismatch risk that could lead to financial crises. Central Banks in such economies have to adjust their foreign currency policies...
Provided by Fordham University
-
White Papers
Heteroskedasticity And Autocorrelation Efficient (HAE) Estimation And Pivots For Jointly Evolving Series
September 17, 2008, 12:00am PDT
A new two-way map between time domain and numerical magnitudes or values domain (v-dom) provides a new solution to heteroscedasticity. Since sorted logs of squared fitted residuals are monotonic...
Provided by Fordham University
-
White Papers
Productivity Matters For Trade Policy: Theory And Evidence
May 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
In the growth literature that investigates the effect of trade liberalization on productivity, nearly all studies assume that trade policy is determined independently of productivity, hence it is...
Provided by Fordham University
-
White Papers
Consumer Debt Is 130% Of Income: Avoiding Budget Constraint Orthodoxy
August 12, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Consumer theory maximizes utility subject to a budget constraint, ignoring that the ratio of consumer debt to disposable income has varied between 30% and 130%. Granger-causality tests also...
Provided by Fordham University
-
White Papers
Wealth And The Capitalist Spirit
May 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The wealth distribution in the U.S. is more unequal than either the income or earnings distribution, a fact current models of saving behavior have difficulty explaining. Using MaxWeber's (1905)...
Provided by Fordham University
-
White Papers
Wealth, Industry And The Transition To Entrepreneurship
May 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Although the debate about the effect of wealth on entrepreneurship is now almost two decades old, there is little consensus among researchers about the significance of wealth as a determinant for...
Provided by Fordham University
-
White Papers
The Credit Default Swap Market's Reaction To Earnings Announcements
March 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
This paper examines the efficiency of the CDS market by conducting a comparative event study in which both the CDS and the stock markets" responses to earnings announcements are considered. The...
Provided by Fordham University
-
White Papers
The Credit Default Swap Market's Determinants
March 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
This paper explores the ability of variables suggested by structural models to explain variation in CDS spread changes. Using monthly changes in CDS spreads for 333 firms from January, 2001 -...
Provided by Fordham University
-
White Papers
Experience Weighted Attraction In The First Price Auction And Becker Degroot Marschak
February 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
This paper explores the performance of Experience Weighted Attraction (EWA) in two different auction institutions: First Price Sealed Bid, and Becker-DeGroot-Marschak. The results suggest that...
Provided by Fordham University
-
White Papers
From Revolution To Evolution: Charting The Main Features Of Microfinance 2.0
February 26, 2008, 12:00am PST
The past thirty years or so has seen microfinance take off from small group-based lending experiments to several thousand financial service providers (FSPs) serving a growing portion of the...
Provided by Fordham University
-
White Papers
Long-Term Impact Of Investments In Early Schooling - Empirical Evidence From Rural Ethiopia
November 11, 2009, 12:00am PST
This paper identifies the cumulative impact of early schooling investments on later schooling outcomes in a developing country context using enrollment status and relative grade attainment as...
Provided by Fordham University
-
White Papers
Disability Cash Transfers In The Context Of Poverty And Unemployment: The Case Of South Africa
June 25, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Cash transfers have recently become more common in developing countries and are the subject of a growing body of research on their reach and impacts (Ellis, Devereux and White, 2009). In low...
Provided by Fordham University
-
White Papers
Fiscal Federalism In Germany: Stabilization And Redistribution Before And After Unification
May 15, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The author provides empirical estimates of the risk-sharing and redistributive properties of the German federal fiscal system based on data from 1970 until 2006, with special attention to the...
Provided by Fordham University
-
White Papers
Improved Baseline Sales
February 4, 2009, 12:00am PST
This paper develops a more accurate and robust baseline sales (sales in the absence of price promotion) using Dynamic Linear Models and a Multiple Structural Change Model (DLM/MSCM). The author...
Provided by Fordham University
-
White Papers
Will The Global Financial Crisis Lead To Lower Aid? A First Look At United States ODA
January 22, 2009, 12:00am PST
Analyzing US economic and foreign aid data from 1967 to 2007, this paper investigates whether adverse economic and financial conditions are negatively linked to Official Development Assistance...
Provided by Fordham University
-
White Papers
Interstate Risk Sharing In Germany: 1970-2006
June 7, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper studies the channels of interstate risk sharing in Germany for the time period 1970 to 2006 following the methodology of Asdrubali et al. (1996). Their framework allows one to estimate...
Provided by Fordham University
-
White Papers
Necessary Knowledge For Communications Policy
August 7, 2006, 12:00am PDT
Communications policymaking increasingly relies upon large-scale databases manufactured and marketed by commercial organizations. Data providers such as BIA Research, Nielsen Media Research, and...
Provided by Fordham University
-
White Papers
It?s What You Do and Who You Do It With: A Longitudinal Study of the Sense of Calling
August 13, 2009, 12:00am PDT
In this 3-1/2-year, 3- wave longitudinal survey of 352 musicians, the author build on this previous research to examine the relationship between a broader set of factors and the sense of calling...
Provided by Fordham University
-
White Papers
Euro Appreciation and Chinese Fear of Floating: Pressures from the NDF Market
December 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
This paper examines financial market data to assess the likelihood of renminbi appreciation and its implications for Chinese financial markets, given the continuing strength of the Euro against...
Provided by Fordham University
-
White Papers
A Model-Independent Measure Of Aggregate Idiosyncratic Risk
February 29, 2008, 12:00am PST
This paper introduces a model-independent measure of aggregate idiosyncratic risk, which does not require estimation of market betas or correlations and is based on the concept of gain from...
Provided by Fordham University
-
White Papers
Who Trades With Whom, And When?
June 9, 2006, 12:00am PDT
This paper examines empirically how market participants meet on the NYSE to form trades. Pure floor trades, involving only floor brokers and the specialist, account for only 4% of trading volume...
Provided by Fordham University
-
White Papers
Time Variation In Liquidity: The Role Of Market Maker Inventories And Revenues
December 31, 2008, 12:00am PST
Paper shows that market-maker balance sheet and income statement variables explain time variation in liquidity, suggesting liquidity-supplier financing constraints matter. Using 11 years of NYSE...
Provided by Fordham University
-
White Papers
Time Variation In Liquidity: The Role Of Market-Maker Inventories And Revenues
February 17, 2010, 12:00am PST
This paper shows that market-maker balance sheet and income statement variables explain time variation in liquidity, suggesting liquidity-supplier financing constraints matter. Using 11 years of...
Provided by Fordham University
-
White Papers
Encyclopedia Of Data Warehousing And Mining
November 24, 2008, 12:00am PST
When a space shuttle takes off, tiny sensors measure thousands of data points every fraction of a second, pertaining to a variety of attributes like temperature, acceleration, pressure and...
Provided by Fordham University
-
White Papers
Data Mining in the Real World: Experiences, Challenges, and Recommendations
May 13, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Data mining is used regularly in a variety of industries and is continuing to gain in both popularity and acceptance. However, applying data mining methods to complex real-world tasks is far from...
Provided by Fordham University
-
White Papers
Open Source Software: The Success of an Alternative Intellectual Property Incentive Paradigm
September 29, 2006, 12:00am PDT
Intellectual property protection in the United States is based on an incentive system. The protections provided by intellectual property law are designed to produce economic incentives to "Promote...
Provided by Fordham University
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