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A comparative advantage is "revealed" if RCA>1. If RCA is less than unity, the country is said to have a comparative disadvantage in the commodity or industry. The concept of revealed comparative advantage is similar to that of economic base theory, which is the same calculation, but considers employment rather than exports.
The Marshall-Edgeworth index, credited to Marshall (1887) and Edgeworth (1925), [11] is a weighted relative of current period to base period sets of prices. This index uses the arithmetic average of the current and based period quantities for weighting. It is considered a pseudo-superlative formula and is symmetric. [12]
The RCA index was "re-normalized" by Proudman and Redding (2000) and by Laursen (2000) in order to show symmetric distribution. Proudman and Redding (2000) propose a version of the RCA index in which the share of country over worldwide sectorial export is weighted by the arithmetic mean of export shares." "The main critic to the traditional RCA ...
The David P. King Stock Index From September 2011 to December 2012, if you bought shares in companies when David P. King joined the board, and sold them when he left, you would have a -2.4 percent return on your investment, compared to a 18.4 percent return from the S&P 500.
In science and engineering, root cause analysis (RCA) is a method of problem solving used for identifying the root causes of faults or problems. [1] It is widely used in IT operations, manufacturing, telecommunications, industrial process control, accident analysis (e.g., in aviation, [2] rail transport, or nuclear plants), medical diagnosis, the healthcare industry (e.g., for epidemiology ...
Ordinary least squares regression of Okun's law.Since the regression line does not miss any of the points by very much, the R 2 of the regression is relatively high.. In statistics, the coefficient of determination, denoted R 2 or r 2 and pronounced "R squared", is the proportion of the variation in the dependent variable that is predictable from the independent variable(s).
The Matthew E. Rubel Stock Index From June 2010 to December 2012, if you bought shares in companies when Matthew E. Rubel joined the board, and sold them when he left, you would have a -79.6 percent return on your investment, compared to a 32.8 percent return from the S&P 500.
The James D. Robinson III Stock Index From January 2008 to December 2012, if you bought shares in companies when James D. Robinson III joined the board, and sold them when he left, you would have a 18.0 percent return on your investment, compared to a -2.8 percent return from the S&P 500.