Essays about: "short-horizon"

Showing result 6 - 8 of 8 essays containing the word short-horizon.

  1. 6. An Investigation of the Swedish Consumption Function : An Error-Correction Approach

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för nationalekonomi och statistik (NS)

    Author : Robert Pölder; [2017]
    Keywords : Consumption; consumption function; vector error-correction model; forecast accuracy; intercept correction; cointegration; Sweden; wealth effects; housing wealth; financial wealth; vector autoregressive model; Bayesian vector autoregressive model;

    Abstract : This thesis examines the Swedish aggregate consumption function using the concept of cointegration, and explores whether consumption, income, financial wealth, and housing wealth share a long-run trend. The goal of the study was to determine the strength of this cointegrating relationship, the relative roles of housing wealth and financial wealth in the consumption function, and a suitable method for forecasting consumption. READ MORE

  3. 7. Evaluation of emergency ordering policies at Syncron

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Produktionsekonomi

    Author : Niklas Jonsson Åberg; Staffan Theander; [2017]
    Keywords : Technology and Engineering;

    Abstract : The aim of our research has been to identify what prevents Syncron from implementing a single item emergency ordering policy in their inventory management system, GIM. Emergency ordering is defined here as the ability to use two supply sources, a normal one and a faster more expensive emergency source. READ MORE

  4. 8. Nowcasting US GDP with Baltic Dry Index : A study investigating the use of the MIDAS Model

    University essay from Södertörns högskola/Institutionen för samhällsvetenskaper

    Author : Martin Servin Almkvist; [2016]
    Keywords : ;

    Abstract : One of the conclusions made in the aftermath of the last financial crisis was that forecasting was failing in the context of predicting the current economic activity, which meant there were few efficient instruments to monitor the economy and thereby no early stage intervention which could have mitigated the severity of the crises.  Due to these facts presented nowcasting, forecasting in short horizon, and the use of models that could combine different data frequencies like the Mixed Data Sampling (MIDAS) model gained a lot of attention. READ MORE