Title:Unit Root and Cointegration Testing: Guest Editors' Introduction
Author(s):LUETKEPOHL, Helmut; RODRIGUES, Paulo M. M.Date:2008Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:By pointing out the spurious regression problem, Granger and Newbold (1974) have shown the importance of stochastic trends in time series data in the context of linear regression models. At the time, removing trends by ...
Title:Unit Root Tests for Time Series with Level Shifts: A Comparison of Different Proposals
Author(s):LANNE, Markku; LUETKEPOHL, HelmutDate:2002Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:A number of unit root tests which accommodate a deterministic level shift at a known point in time are compared in a Monte Carlo study. The tests differ in the way they treat the deterministic term of the DGP. It turns out ...
Title:Unobserved Components in Arch Models: An Application to Seasonal Adjustment
Author(s):FIORENTINI, Gabriele; MARAVALL, AgustinDate:1996Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:The paper deals with unobserved components in ARIMA models with GARCH errors, in the context of an actual application, namely seasonal adjustment of the monthly Spanish money supply series. The series shows clear evidence ...
Title:Unpriced Quality Number
Author(s):COURTY, PascalDate:2009Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:A monopolist deliberately charges the same price for differentiated products when high quality products are more likely to be allocated to low type consumers under uniform pricing. The argument can explain the use of ...
Title:Upstairs, Downstairs: Computers and Skills on Two Floors of a Large Bank
Author(s):AUTOR, David; LEVY, Frank; MURNANE, RichardDate:2002Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Many studies document a positive correlation between workplace computerization and employment of skilled labor in production. Why does this correlation arise? The authors posit that improvements in computer-based technology ...
Title:Urban Growth Across Three Continents: The Blessing of Human Capital and the Curse of Volatility
Author(s):POELHEKKE, StevenDate:2008Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This dissertation is concerned with the empirical determinants of urban growth in developed countries, and the effects of macroeconomic volatility in less developed countries, on urbanization and long run income growth. ...
Title:Urban Growth, Uninsured Risk and the Rural Origins of Aggregate Volatility
Author(s):POELHEKKE, StevenDate:2008Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:The level of urbanization has increased by over 5 percentage points per decade outside
the developed world since 1960. Rapid urbanization was accompanied by fast economic
growth and job creation in most parts of the ...
Title:The US Trade Deficit, the Decline of the WTO and the Rise of Regionalism
Author(s):AGUR, ItaiDate:2007Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:This paper argues that the growing US trade deficit has caused the decline of the
WTO and the rise of regional trade agreements. A country in de.cit prefers to retain
market power against countries with a large surplus. ...
Title:Use and Misuse of Unobserved Components in Economic-Forecasting
Author(s):MARAVALL, AgustinDate:1994Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:The paper deals with unobserved components in economic time series within a general model-based approach. The component, its final estimator, and the preliminary one (which also includes the forecast) are seen to follow ...