A Combination of Fuzzy Techniques and Chow Test to Detect Structural Breaks in Time Series

a time-series analysis of the demand for life insurance in iran

با توجه به تجزیه و تحلیل داده ها ما دریافتیم که سطح درامد و تعداد نمایندگیها باتقاضای بیمه عمر رابطه مستقیم دارند و نرخ بهره و بار تکفل با تقاضای بیمه عمر رابطه عکس دارند

Which OIC countries are catching up? Time Series Evidences with Multiple Structural Breaks

Abstract In this paper, income per capita convergence hypothesis is tested in selected OIC countries. For this purpose, we use the time series model and univariate KPSS stationary test with multiple structural breaks (Carrion-i-Silvestre et al. (2005)) over the period 1950-2008. The results show that most OIC countries could not catch up toward USA. Although because of some positive term of tra...

a frame semantic approach to the study of translating cultural scripts in salingers franny and zooey

the frame semantic theory is a nascent approach in the area of translation studies which goes beyond the linguistic barriers and helps us to incorporate cognitive and cultural factors to the study of translation. based on rojos analytical model (2002b), which centered in the frames or knowledge structures activated in the text, the present research explores the various translation problems that...

Nonlinearity, Structural Breaks or Outliers in Economic Time Series?

This paper has its motivation from discussions at the E C 2 conference in 1995. y Financial support from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada is gratefully acknowledged , as are helpful discussions with Sid Chib and Les Oxley. z Financial support from the Academic Senate UCLA and Center for Computable Economics, UCLA is gratefully acknowledged. In recent years there has...

State-Space Time Series Modeling of Structural Breaks