economics

Hi! Me and my friend were searching for potential master thesis topics. We have thought of a topic on how the employee satisfaction of a company affects its financial results/firm performance. We would like to examine whether there is a difference in between industries, based on their amount of...

Hi everyone, I've been working on developing a crypto-currency called eQualityCoin for a while now and hoped someone here might be able to help me "classify" the system in a formal mathematical sense. The system's main feature is a simple rule for how it determines a purchaser's exchange...

Hi all. I have a spreadsheet with standard normally distributed random variates in one column. How do I find the expected value and variance based on x number of simulations?

Good morning, I'm struggling to fit a satisfactory model to a data set I have resulting from a systematic review. I performed a systematic review of estimated $ valuations of grasslands and the services they provide. All grasslands provide all services, but some studies only value one of...

I wanted to stop by and intro myself with a sort of long introduction so that if you think I might be asking a lot of questions, here's why. I'm in the middle of this doctoral dissertation and I have a lot of PTSD and grief wrapped up in it. It's a complicated story so I'm going to try and...

Hello, Im trying to forecast an economic predictor and our professor hasn't been very clear as to what to do for this project. I know I am supposed to use multiple linear regression y = b0+b1x1+b2x2+... to my understanding, I have found b through holding my variables constant and...

Dear all, Working on my Master Thesis I got the remark from my supervisor that I have to extend the research with a multivariate analysis. I have been looking at literature, text books and different forums how to approach this, but could not find any usefull sugestions. If anyone could help...

I am a senior in college writing a thesis analyzing and critiquing government income transfer programs, such as SNAP (food stamps). Here is my issue. I am using data collected from the consumer expenditure survey, which will typically provide means, sample sizes, and standard errors. I am...

Hello everyone, I have a data set of OECD. I would like to analyse the relation between this two indicators: the relation between unemployment rate and public expenditure on active labour market policies. I have the percentage of unemployment rate and the percentage of GDP dedicate to active...

Bare with me whilst I try and explain this one. I work for a business that finds companies to buy a client business that's signed up with us. I have been compiling a spreadsheet with data of deals completed and closed during the past 2 years, and what I want to do is find a way to calculate the...

hi there, I wonder if sbdy could help me with my dissertation project. I am stuck with the analysis n tried to consult a few people but unfortunately they either have limited experience, knowledge or interest in the subject of statistics/behavioural economics. Basically, I got a mixed...

I work in real estate. I am trying to determine what quantitative characteristic is the most reliable indicator of sale price. In other words, in commercial real estate, should I determine value based on square footage or on sales volume? As a noob, I thought that simply comparing...

Hi all I am not professional neither in economics nor in statistics, and I was wondering if you could help me: I am working on a project that simulates a systems that tells to companies if they are doing good or bad considering their marketing share. Lets say we are in the fax industry...

I currently have a model that measures inflation expectations as follows: y(t) = a*x(t) + (1-a)*y(t-1) I'm looking to create a regime switching models that change the values of "a" based upon a shock to an exogenous variable (let's say "z(t)"). Are there any methods which estimate the...

Hi, I'm new to the site, so bear with me! I currently have a model that measures inflation expectations as follows: y(t) = a*x(t) + (1-a)*y(t-1) I'm looking to create a regime switching models that change the values of "a" based upon a shock to an exogenous variable (let's say...

I'm trying to determine an smoothing parameter for the Hodrick-Prescott Filter. I've seen there are papers on the topic, but they are far to advanced for my comprehension. If I have a data set, X, what are the steps to take? Please any suggestions are helping!!

Hey everyone! I'm a finance grad and am doing my first big project back-testing some stock selection methods. I have spent the last few weeks writing a big vba program to run the back-test and I have the following: 10 dates (5 years semi-annual) and 40 companies where, for a given...