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William T. Shaw
Researcher at King's College London
Publications - 64
Citations - 2071
William T. Shaw is an academic researcher from King's College London. The author has contributed to research in topics: Monte Carlo method & Quantile. The author has an hindex of 20, co-authored 64 publications receiving 1947 citations. Previous affiliations of William T. Shaw include Strand Bookstore & University of Oxford.
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Migration and remittances : recent developments and outlook
Kirsten Schuettler,Hanspeter Wyss,Dilip Ratha,Sonia Plaza,Supriyo De,Ervin Dervisevic,William T. Shaw,Soonhwa Yi,Seyed Reza Yousefi +8 more
TL;DR: The stock of international migrants is estimated at 247 million in 2013, significantly larger than the previous estimate of 232 million, and is expected to surpass 250 million in 2015 as mentioned in this paper, however, the growth of remittance flows to developing countries are expected to moderate sharply to 0.9 percent to $440 billion, led by a 12.7 percent decline in ECA and slowdown in East Asia and the Pacific, Middle-East and North Africa, and Sub-Saharan Africa.
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The alchemy of probability distributions: beyond Gram-Charlier expansions, and a skew-kurtotic-normal distribution from a rank transmutation map
William T. Shaw,I. R. C. Buckley +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, a technique for introducing skewness or kurtosis into a symmetric or other distribution is proposed, based on a "transmutation map" which is the functional composition of the cumulative distribution function of one distribution with the inverse cumulative distribution (quantile) function of another.
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Leveraging Migration for Africa: Remittances, Skills, and Investments
TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide new analyses and case studies, as well as formulating policy recommendations that can improve the migration experience for migrants, origin countries, and destination countries.
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Correlation structure and dynamics in volatile markets
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the statistical signatures of the "credit crunch" financial crisis that unfolded between 2008 and 2009 by combining tools from statistical physics and network theory, and devised measures for the collective behavior of stock prices based on the construction of topologically constrained graphs from cross-correlation matrices.
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Breaking Into New Markets
TL;DR: The authors in this article argue for a more comprehensive view of diversification and hence a comprehensive trade policy strategy that takes into account improving the quality of existing exports, breaking into new geographic markets, and increasing services exports.