The paper analyses the relationship between shadow economy and unemployment rates using a Structural VAR approach for quarterly data during the period 2000-2010. The size of Romanian shadow economy is estimated using the currency demand approach based on VECM models, stating that its size is decreasing over the analyzed period, from 36.5% at the end of 2000 to about 31.5% of real GDP at the mid...

Emerging stock markets are characterized by strong investor sentiment and rapid fluctuations in returns. However, the role of on asset pricing has not been explored these markets. This study sought to establish if effect profitability risk factor returns would vary with level at Kenyan equity market. A quantitative causal time-series design was adopted analyze cause-effect relationship among va...

In this paper we present a novel classifier which integrates a multilayer perceptron and a error-correcting decoder. There are two stages in the classifier, in the first stage, mapping feature vectors from feature space to code space is achieved by a multilayer perceptron; in the second stage, error correcting decoding is done on code space, by which the index of the noisy codeword can be obtai...

This paper analyzes the transmission mechanisms of a contractionary monetary policy shock on the real economy. The sufficiently long regime uniform time period since the political transformation in the Czech Republic provides evidence for effective inflation targeting by the Czech National Bank. I apply a recursive vector autoregression (VAR), a structural VAR, and structural vector error corre...