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What data sources are available online?
What sources of financial and economic data are available online? Which ones are free or cheap? What has your experience been like with these data sources?
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Why are regressors squared and not ^1.5 or ^2.2 or ^2.5?
When a researcher in economics or finance wants to apply a linear regression model but suspects a non-linear relationship between one of the regressors and the dependent variable, it is typical to ...
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Testing for stock market herding over short periods
The literature has well established methods for testing stock market herding over a decent time window.
Are there any ways that have appeared in the literature to test for stock market herding over ...
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Maximization of CARA utility function: unique solution with an unbounded parameter?
An investor at time $t_0$ can invest his wealth $w_0$ in a risky asset $x$ for an amount $a$ and the remain part in the riskless asset $w_0-a$.
At the end of the period $t_1$, the investor will ...
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Reliable Economic Data on China
Trying to develop a new strategy, but I need to find reliable economic data on China. It's well known that the official figures there don't tell you everything (to put it nicely), so I was wondering ...
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Supply and Demand of Oil [closed]
This is probably not the best place to ask this question but the one that seems most appropriate on stack exchange(doesn't seem to be an economics one).
Anyways, My question, a serious one and not ...
