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Read  full  paper  at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=53769#.VNHXMyzQrzE Author(s)   Aladdin Shamilov 1 , Cigdem Giriftinoglu 1,2   Affiliation(s) 1 Department of Statistics Anadolu University, Eskisehir, Turkey . 2 Department of Economics, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA . ABSTRACT In this study, by starting from Maximum entropy (MaxEnt) distribution of time series, we introduce a measure that quantifies information worth of a set of autocovariances. The information worth of autocovariences is measured in terms of entropy difference of MaxEnt distributions subject to different autocovariance sets due to the fact that the information discrepancy between two distributions is measured in terms of their entropy difference in MaxEnt modeling. However, MinMaxEnt distributions (models) are obtained on the basis of MaxEnt distributions dependent on parameters according to autocovariances for t...

Read full paper at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=52813 Author(s)    Badamassi Aboubacar 1 , Deyi Xu 1 , Amadou Maiga Ousseini 2 Affiliation(s) 1 School of Economics and Management, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, China . 2 School of Economics and Trade, Hunan University, Changsha, China . ABSTRACT The trade openness is one of the most important determinants of a country’s relative level of economic health. It plays a vital role for most free market economies in the world. This research is an attempt to investigate, particularly, the impact of the trade openness on the economic growth in Niger; and generally, the relationship between all the variables under study. Fo...