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In a new study published in Physical Review D, Professor Ginestra Bianconi, Professor of Applied Mathematics at Queen Mary University of London, proposes a new framework that could revolutionize our ...

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This study examines whether foreign-exchange rates evolve as a random walk by directly comparing the predictive ability of autoregressive (AR) models of spot rates with that of the random walk. To ...

The study presents an analysis of the information content of IMF’s Data Quality Assessment Framework (DQAF) indicators. There are significant differences in the quantity of information between DQAF ...

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