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For my research work on bibliometric analysis, i have to compute the following measures with the data available from scopus database 1. degree of centrality- normalized betweennes centrality –...
27 February 2021 8,071 2 View
I have received comments from three reviewers. many of the comments are similar. do i have to respond to the comments of all the three reviewers individually or can i write a consolidated...
16 October 2020 9,489 4 View
I have the panel data regression model for which have to test the endogeneity. i read one research paper which was using Vector Autoregression (VAR) to test the endogeneity. in that paper, it...
04 October 2020 1,162 3 View
is to appropriate to use Autoregressive Distributed Lag Model, when all the variables are integrated at level form I(0)?
07 May 2020 9,696 0 View
how to differentiate earnings management from creative accounting. is earnings management part of creative accounting? how the accounting literature defines those two terms.
03 May 2020 2,070 19 View
if i am using accrual based earnings management, and the actual accrual is more than predicted accrual, whether it is correct to say that the positive value of residual is indicating income...
18 April 2020 6,260 0 View
I run OLS regression on panel data in Eviews and then 2SLS and GMM regression. I introduced all the independent variables of OLS as instrumental variables. I am getting exacty same results under...
06 April 2020 4,938 1 View
dear all I use Eviews software for panel data regression. But, I did not find any option to test multicollinearity with panel data regression. However, for time series data, i am finding the...
31 March 2020 3,570 4 View
I read from the text on multi-variate analysis, both Robust Least Squares(M-estimation, E-estimation and MM-estimation) and Quantile Regression are used to control the influence of outliers. can...
28 March 2020 2,284 8 View
dear all, How to understand the difference between OLS regression and Quantile Regression more intuitively without referring to mathematical notations and theorems. thanks in advance
16 February 2020 7,149 4 View
dear all As per the theory, when all the variables are not integrated at the same order, ARDL is applied to test the relationship between the variables. my doubt is whether the relationship...
23 December 2019 2,803 6 View
dear all, I have to compare the synchronicity, beta and alphas of the select stocks with their peer group. How to identify the competitor stocks in the market. I am thinking of using the...
21 November 2019 1,325 3 View
I have a dataset of unbalanced panel where in time period is 8 years but, the data is not available for completely 8 years for all the variables for all the companies. so the final sample size is...
27 March 2019 5,256 2 View
is research on earnings management and earnings quality belong to same are? what is the difference in the main thrust of of research on Earnings management and Earnings quality? thanks in advance
01 February 2019 9,984 12 View
I am running ANN for the analysis of my data. Even I use the same architecture and same features, i am getting different results, every time a run the model. does it happen with ANN? OR there...
16 January 2019 1,176 2 View
I am running ARIMA model with the natural log values of 10 years daily frequency data of a stock market index i.e., Nifty the variable is integrated at first differencing . the lag lengths of AR...
14 January 2019 183 8 View
what are the differences between marginal costing and differential costing? and is it right to classify marginal costing as short decision making approach and differential costing as long-run...
03 January 2019 3,971 6 View
what is the correct accouting equation out of the below mentioned two 1. Assets=Liability+ Capital 2. Assets=Liabilities+ Equity In other words, what is the difference between capital and...
29 December 2018 5,238 9 View
i am running panel data regression model with 4 years data of 327 firms in eviews some firms have unusual value of the dependent variable. so, I want to remove such observations. but, in...
19 December 2018 2,438 3 View
what exactly is the difference betweenn past information and present information in the context of Efficient market hypothesis. if both past and present information is accessable to the...
30 November 2018 8,758 2 View
Exactly from which date gold options are introduced on gold futures in India and on which derivatives exchange. is the historical data on gold options( option price,strike price, open interest,...
05 November 2018 8,184 2 View
I run a regression model on cross-sectional data of 59 companies. the regression model has only one independent variable. the impact of the independent variable is significant(p
22 October 2018 384 25 View
I applied OLS regression to predict total accruals by using modified Jones model. the model is as follows TA=alpha1*1/At-1+alpha2*(delta_Revenue - delta_Receivables)/At-1+alpha3*(PPE)/At-1. the...
13 October 2018 3,504 4 View
if "Net cash flow from operating activities" is more than "Operating profit" , what does it mean? 1. does it mean that there are no accruals? 2. if total accruals are computed as the difference...
12 October 2018 8,635 9 View
in computation of operating profit whether depreciation should be deducted or not? if depreciation is not deductable, then PBDITA can be considered as a measure of operating profit. thanks in...
12 October 2018 3,574 3 View
while calculating accounting ratios, where to include capital-in-work progress? can it be part of Property, plant and equipment(PPE)? thanks in advance
12 October 2018 7,031 3 View
I am doing my research earnings management. i found two different methods to compute total accruals. 1. Total Accrual =(deltaCA - deltaCL - deltacash +deltashorttermdebt - Dep)/Total Assets 2....
11 October 2018 631 10 View
11 October 2018 574 5 View
what is the intuitive appeal of the jones model? how to under the concept of total accruals in simple terms under jones model? thanks in advance
21 September 2018 1,280 3 View
i run 2stage least-squares regression with instrumental variables. i got negative R-squared value of -23.416 which does not make any sense in interpretation. However, the f-statistic of the...
17 September 2018 6,352 6 View
what are the key areas(or research problems) in fair value accounting which draw the attention for empirical research? thanks in advance
15 September 2018 8,383 5 View
is there any difference between exponential moving average(EMA) and exponentially weighted moving average(EWMA)? thanks in advance
12 September 2018 3,783 3 View
As I know, RiskMetrics uses lambda value of 0.94 to compute EWMA. But, it is assigned arbitrarily. Is there any method to estimate lambda value, instead of taking its value...
12 September 2018 8,510 3 View
what is the conceptual difference between normal distribution and log normal distribution? thanks in advance
11 September 2018 3,348 3 View
P/E ratio and PBV ratio are the two widley used measures of market performance of the securities. what does the following four categories of securites imply? 1. securities with High P/E Ratio and...
22 August 2018 6,850 9 View
As we know implied volatility is derived by interpolation of market price and the guess of the volatility by using the option pricing formula. what are the real life applicaiton of implied...
22 August 2018 6,185 5 View
i have to compute the average return of Nifty-50 Index of indian stock market for the financial year april,2016 to march,2017. i calculated daily returns and took the average of the daily...
14 August 2018 7,414 10 View
i am using factor analysis for the analysis of my research data. along with other statitics, i got compnent transformation matrix also. How to interpret it i am enclosing the output thanks in...
12 August 2018 7,938 6 View
For the purpsoe of writing journal entries, we classify the accounting itmes into three categories, Real, Personal and Nominal Accounts. If we create Provisions like 'provisions for doubtful...
09 August 2018 9,968 7 View
In Efficient market hypothesis, the third form is strong form of EMH, which suggests privately available information is also reflected on stock price. 1. what is empirical revelance of strong...
09 August 2018 7,021 2 View
i run markov regime switching model and I got negative value for the coefficient of transition matrix parameter. How to interpret it. thanks in advance
01 August 2018 7,611 1 View
what is the difference between conditional and unconditional volatility? thanks in advance
01 August 2018 7,820 11 View
I have to prepare a syllabus of research methodology focusing on qualitative research (including content analysis) can anybody suggest some useful sources in this regard? thanks in advance
25 July 2018 1,217 9 View
I have to use "Merton Jump diffusion model" for estimating the price of options for my research work. i am using VBA as a back-end program for MS-Excel. I have calcualted all the variables...
22 July 2018 6,897 6 View
In my research, i have to test the causal relationship between the variables. is it compulsory to test the cointegration between the variables followed by error correction, before testing the...
28 June 2018 4,901 4 View
i have a regression model, wherein i have to introduce interaction terms (between two independent variabels). How to do it in eviews. for example, I have independent variabels X1 and X2, is it...
26 June 2018 1,092 4 View
what is invertible time series process? how to understand it in simple non-technical language thanks in advance
24 June 2018 9,238 6 View
how to perform engle granger cointegration test? can anybody tell me the step-by-step procedure for engle granger cointegration test? thanks in advance
23 June 2018 2,269 8 View
I run Augmented Dickey Fuller test on a time sereis variable to test its stationarity by using Eviews. the results disclose that the variable is not stationary. As we know Eviews produces ADF...
19 June 2018 737 4 View
VECM output generated by eviews contains the coefficient/SE, t-statistic and 'prob' for error correction term and first differenced lagged values of the endogenous variables. the purpose of VECM...
19 June 2018 8,407 1 View
I run johansen cointegration test on two time series variables using Eviews. the results reveal that there are two cointegration equations. Is it right to interpret that there are two different...
19 June 2018 7,817 12 View
conceptually, what is the difference between autocorrelation and partial autocorrelation In decing the lag lenght for AR or ARMA Models which one should be considered. thanks in advance
17 June 2018 384 7 View
I estimated autoregressive model on a time series varibles, by selecting the lag length based on correlogram. what should be desired properties of the residuals derived from autoregressive model....
17 June 2018 5,882 6 View
For my econometric assignment, I have to run Sargan test for the instrumental variable regression. what is the purpose of Sargan test? I could not understand it clearly. How to perform the...
12 June 2018 2,266 3 View
in order to find short run dynamics of long run equilibrium relationship, we do Vector Error Correction after conducting cointegration test. what does the coefficient fo error correction term...
10 June 2018 3,990 18 View
i run johansen cointegration test, it reveals the presence of long run economic relationship between the variables and made error correction also. Now, I want to test the short run causality...
10 June 2018 3,073 7 View
one of the fundamental purpose of derivatives trading is to facilitate effective price discovery for the underlying asset in the spot market. what is the most appropriate econometric technique...
10 June 2018 6,733 4 View
what the is underlying motives behind the valuation of human resources? when the costs incurred on human resources is expensed immediately, why do we go for the valuation of human...
01 June 2018 2,143 13 View
can anybody let me know, what are the actively traded agriculture commodity futures in Indian market? please also tell what is the better source of information for the historical data on the same.
30 May 2018 4,026 3 View
is there any concept like "cost of misclassification" relating to Probit/ logit model? as we know the purpose of logit/probit models is to predict the probability of the group membership of an...
28 May 2018 5,494 4 View
i have a cross sectional data of 500 companies relating to CSR spending and product differentiation(measured through R&D exp/Sales ratio) i want to test the causality between the two...
13 May 2018 4,861 7 View
i have a data of stock prices in daily frequency. i want to study the relationship of stock price(or returns) with select macro-economic variables. the macroeconomics variables are in monthly...
17 March 2018 9,056 8 View
The NIM of a bank is computed by dividing net interest income by the average advances. I applied this formula to compute NIM of a state bank of India. But, i did not get the value of NIM which was...
09 March 2018 887 6 View
cost of capital refers to required rate of return by the contributors of capital. in the same way, cost of debt is the rate of return required by the contributors of debt capital. for example,...
07 March 2018 3,589 13 View
i have to apply for my Post Doctoral research in corporate finance. can anybody suggest a best contemporary topic in corporate finance in Indian context? thanks in advance
02 March 2018 7,861 14 View
what are the advantages of NG perron unit root test over ADF test and PP test
27 February 2018 4,572 1 View
what is the difference among price, cost and value? how to explain it in lucid manner?
10 February 2018 2,907 32 View
can anybody suggest best international standard text books on business valuation? thanks in advance
04 February 2018 7,734 13 View
is geometric mean and compounded annual growth rate are the same?
28 January 2018 9,855 5 View
In computation of the skewness, we take cubed values of mean and standard deviation. what is the intuitive reason behind computation of cubed deviation?
27 January 2018 9,199 2 View
what is third moment of central tendency? is skewness is the only measure used to calcuate the measure of third central moment.?
27 January 2018 1,715 5 View
I read from a standard text on statistics that variance has additive property, but standard deviation has not this property. Hence, variance of overall portfolio can be derived by adding up the...
25 January 2018 5,387 5 View
can we make a generalized statement that 1. Arithmetic Mean is always more than geometric mean and harmonic mean? 2. Harmonic mean is always lower than arithmetic mean and geometric mean? if so,...
21 January 2018 3,575 16 View
what is the reason behind the use of reciprocal values in Harmonic mean? Can you please explain it in simple language without much technical stuff? thanks in advance
21 January 2018 8,359 3 View
can you provide some examples of the areas in which Harmonic Mean is applied? thanks in advance
20 January 2018 8,634 5 View
I need a graphical presentation or simple conceptual presentation of the type of varaible and measurement scale in a comprehensive manner. I could understand clearly all the terms like...
20 January 2018 5,858 3 View
when i run the panel data regression with cross-section weights, in the eviews output, the method is shown as panel EGLS method (cross-section weights) what does panel EGLS method of regression...
18 January 2018 6,505 4 View
what is the importance of Interest income to total assets ratio of a banking company in analyzing its performance? thanks in advance
17 January 2018 7,627 10 View
While computation of net interest margin of banking company, do we consider income from investments. if so, the denominator of the ratio i.e, interest earning assets include 'investments...
16 January 2018 7,940 7 View
As I read from the standard text, operating profit margin of banking company is computed by dividing operating profit by income of the bank. does Income refers to interest income only or it...
16 January 2018 1,441 12 View
what is the relationship between cash-deposit ratio and money multiplier?
13 January 2018 3,966 11 View
what are the different alternative methods to compute Tobin's Q?
09 January 2018 3,535 15 View
can anybody suggest standard case studies on Balanced Scorecard which are freely available for downloading. thanks in advance
09 January 2018 5,375 3 View
can anybody suggest high standard case studies on Activity Based Costing which can be downloaded freely. thanks in adance
09 January 2018 7,602 5 View
How to understand the concept of Cointegration in simple terms without the help of technical jargon. what is the difference between cointegration and correlation? thanks in advance
07 January 2018 4,341 15 View
There is vast literature on the empirical studies on GARCH like econometric models. But, the studies confine to testing the statistical significance of the parameters estimated under the model and...
01 January 2018 945 2 View
what are the key ratios to measure the financial Performance of a Banking Company? thanks in advance
01 January 2018 8,570 24 View
if a company declares buy back of shares, what type of signals it provides to the stock market. if promoters also participate in the buy back, does it indicate negative future prospects of the...
28 December 2017 9,951 3 View
can anybody suggest a best seminal works on the relationship between macroeconomic variables and stock price? thanks in advance
28 December 2017 1,146 12 View
In th context of regression analysis, what is the difference between endogeneous and exogeneous variables.
25 December 2017 6,943 13 View
what are the international standard best text books on Financial Accounting? thanks in advance
25 December 2017 930 6 View
How to split SPSS data file into different parts with equal size? split file option in SPSS requires split variable. I do not have any split variable. But i want to divide my data into 10 equal...
24 December 2017 4,314 4 View
can you please suggest international standard refererence text books on Management Accounting?
24 December 2017 410 7 View
I am planning to take up research project on Behavioural accounting. can you please suggest what are the key areas of research on Behavioural accounting.
24 December 2017 3,643 3 View
can anybody refer the seminal works on Behavioural accounting which are done by international learned researchers in Accounting
24 December 2017 4,416 4 View
what is leave-one-out classification method used in discriminant analysis for classifying the cases? how the cases are classified under this mehod?
21 December 2017 1,932 4 View
what is the difference between discriminant function coefficients and classification function coefficients?
19 December 2017 3,851 3 View
In regression analysis, we derive 't' statistic for each predictor variable. In the same way, is it possible to compute cohen's d for each predictor variable to test effect size of each of the...
14 December 2017 5,603 3 View
can anybody suggest a standard text which presents all the sampling techniques more comprehensively in a lucid manner? thanks in advance
14 December 2017 8,217 5 View
what are the real life applications of Arbitrage Pricing theory? In other words, How an investor can make use of the theory to get arbitrage profits.?
11 December 2017 7,976 8 View
I would like to undertake a research on empirical testing of international CAPM. how to develop the methodology for testing international CAPM. can you please suggest best guiding articles on...
11 December 2017 2,253 4 View
how to understand intuitively the Inter-temporal CAPM model? what is the appropriate econometric model to empirical test the inter-temporal CAPM model?
11 December 2017 4,825 3 View
how to choose a best online certificate course on applied econometrics?
08 December 2017 4,512 8 View
In the Indian context, how to measure corporate social responsbility index of the companies based on the secondary data avaiable
04 December 2017 1,296 9 View
we are planning to issue a call for paper on Financial Accounting Research for an ISBN book. we have to mention the broad areas of research in Financial Acounting. Can anybody suggest the...
12 November 2017 6,405 38 View
I have a data of two time series variables. Both of them have trend. I want to test whether the two variables are correlated. what is the appropriate correlation measure for such type of data?
27 October 2017 7,082 4 View
For my research paper, i have to study the relationship between stock returns and macroeconomic variabels by using a suitable regression model. (stock return is DV and macroeconomic variabels...
20 October 2017 694 4 View
i run the regression on the cross-sectional data. i have three different model and i want to compare the residuals obtained in the three model. Can I compute RMSE,MAE etc., ? thanks in advance
03 October 2017 9,525 1 View
I run two-layer measurement model, a sub-construct has 6 measured items. one item has standardized estimate of 0.754 amd R-squared value is 0.568. based on standardized estimate the weigtage of...
31 August 2017 2,891 3 View
theoretically, what is the relationship between corporate social responsibility and firm performance.
31 August 2017 5,481 9 View
we employ cluster analysis to derive the clusters representing different dimensions of the profile of the respondets on the set of variables. in this sense, each cluster is a unique representation...
30 August 2017 6,687 4 View
Structural equation modelling provides the estimates of the parameters and their statistical significant and also the R-sqaured value for each depdent variable used in the model. apart from this,...
22 August 2017 4,323 3 View
what is the difference between short-run causality and long-run causality? when do we apply these two causalities and what are the usuall applied tests for these two types of causality? What does...
20 August 2017 3,672 8 View
In case of regression analyiss, we test the significance of model fit by using F-test. just like that, how to test the validity of the GARCH model? usually, econometric softwares do not report...
18 August 2017 3,855 12 View
when we estimate volatility by using GARCH model, is it possible to get residuals. if,so how to calculate the residuals. As we know that residual is the difference between actual and predicted...
17 August 2017 7,285 6 View
As we know that the residuals of CLRM should meet three properties viz., normality, homoscedasticity and no autocorrelation. whether the same conditions are applicable to the residuals obtained...
16 August 2017 6,547 2 View
what is the difference between stratified sampling and cluster sampling?
16 August 2017 9,821 9 View
the CFA results shows positve correlation between the two constructs, but the SEM results show negative relationship(negative value of regression estimate) between the same two constructs. what...
14 August 2017 6,539 6 View
what is the conceptual difference between Durbin-Watson test and Jarque-Bera test? what are the applicabillities of the two tests?
03 August 2017 445 3 View
what exactly does empirical study mean? if we study a phenomenon based on secondary data only, can we classify such study as empirical study? or the empirical study must be the one which is done...
01 August 2017 478 16 View
If Just term 'Current liabilities' is mentioned in any Accounting Equation or formula, does it implictly include provisions also?
26 July 2017 2,218 3 View
