In this paper, finite phase semi-Markov processes are introduced. By introducing variables and a simple transformation, every finite phase semi-Markov process can be transformed to a finite Markov chain which is called its associated Markov chain. A consequence of this is that every phase semi-Markovian switching system may be equivalently expressed as its associated Markovian switching system....

In food tourism context, attracting customers and provision of satisfaction is necessity. accord with the call for empirical evidence within extant literature, this study examines switching barriers its role as moderator on relationship between customer loyalty, at a festival in Delhi, India. Switching can be vital factor more tourists into organized festivals, if implied adequately maintained ...

Title of thesis: COMPARING REGIME-SWITCHING MODELS IN TIME SERIES: LOGISTIC MIXTURES: vs. MARKOV SWITCHING Dimitrios V. Paliouras Master of Science, 2007 Thesis directed by: Professor Benjamin Kedem Department of Mathematics The purpose of this thesis is to review several related regime-switching time series models. Specifically, we use simulated data to compare models where the unobserved stat...

This paper introduces a new learning algorithm for human activity recognition capable of simultaneous regression and classification. Building upon conditional restricted Boltzmannmachines (CRBMs), Factored four way conditional restricted Boltzmann machines (FFW-CRBMs) incorporate a new label layer and four-way interactions among the neurons from the different layers. The additional layer gives ...

By utilizing the state-space representation of Markov-switching vector autoregressive models, we develop impulse response functions with regards to shocks to variables of the system The proposed analysis in related to the concept of generalized impulse responses introduced by Koop, Pesaran and Potter (1996) but characterizes the properties of the model dynamics in a more concise form. In contra...

We explore the impact of central government grants on local house prices in England using a panel data set of local authorities (LAs) from 2001 to 2008. Electoral targeting of grants to LAs by the incumbent national government provides an exogenous source of variation in grants that we exploit to identify their causal effect on house prices. Our results indicate substantial or even full capital...

Competing with Asking Prices In many markets, sellers advertise their good with an asking price. This is a price at which the seller is willing to take his good off the market and trade immediately, though it is understood that a buyer can submit an offer below the asking price and that this offer may be accepted if the seller receives no better offers. Despite their prevalence in a variety of ...

Immigration and the Neighborhood What impact does immigration have on neighborhood dynamics? Within metropolitan areas, we find that housing values have grown relatively more slowly in neighborhoods of immigrant settlement. We propose three nonexclusive explanations: changes in housing quality, reverse causality, or the hypothesis that natives find immigrant neighbors relatively less attractive...

An Empirical Study of the Relationships between CO2 Emissions, Economic Growth and Openness This paper investigates the existence of the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) for carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and its causal relationships with economic growth and openness by using time series data (1971-2006) from China (an emerging market), Korea (a newly industrialized country), and Japan (a deve...

We explore the impact of local economic conditions on the type and size of newly constructed housing. A slightly modified standard open monocentric city model predicts that, as long as land use regulation is relatively lax, positive local income shocks cause construction of more multifamily housing and smaller units. Exploiting metro area-level American Housing Survey (AHS) data from 1984 to 20...