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Periodic Integration and Seasonal Unit Roots

"Seasonality is pervasive across a wide range of economic time series, and it substantially complicates the analysis of unit-root non-stationarity in such series. Contributions to the literature on nonstationary seasonal processes..." – By Tomás del Barrio Castro and others

Managerial Incentives in the Mutual Fund Industry

"The domain of mutual fund management is characterized by an array of incentives that influence the decision-making of fund managers, the welfare of the fund investors, and, more broadly, the financial..." – By Linlin Ma and others

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