Title:Modeling and Forecasting Exchange-Rates With a Bayesian Time-Varying Coefficient Model
Author(s):CANOVA, FabioDate:1993Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This paper employs a multivariate Bayesian time-varying coefficients (TVC) approach to model and forecast exchange rate data. It is shown that, if used as a data-generating mechanism, a TVC model induces nonlinearities in ...
Title:Modeling and Forecasting Stock Return Volatility Using a Random Level Shift Model
Author(s):LU, Yang K.; PERRON, PierreDate:2010Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:We consider the estimation of a random level shift model for which the series of interest is the sum of a short-memory process and a jump or level shift component. For the latter component, we specify the commonly used ...
Title:Modelling of Cointegration in the Vector Autoregressive Model
Author(s):JOHANSEN, SorenDate:2000Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:A survey is given of some results obtained for the cointegrated VAR. The Granger representation theorem is discussed and the notions of cointegration and common trends are defined. The statistical model for cointegrated ...
Title:Modelling Shifts in the Wage-Price and Unemployment-Inflation Relationships in Italy, Poland and the Uk
Author(s):MARCELLINO, Massimiliano; MIZON, Grayham E.Date:2000Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:The relationship between wages, prices, productivity, inflation and unemployment in Italy, Poland, and the UK between the 1960s and the early 1990s is modelled as a cointegrated vector autoregression subject to regime ...
Title:A modern reconsideration of the theory of Optimal Currency Areas
Author(s):CORSETTI, GiancarloDate:2008Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:What can be learnt from revisiting the Optimal Currency Areas (OCA) theory 50 years from its birth, in light of recent advances in open economy macro and monetary theory? This paper presents a stylized micro-founded model ...
Title:Money Demand Stability and Inflation Prediction in the Four Largest EMU Countries
Author(s):CARSTENSEN, Kai; HAGEN, Jan; HOSSFELD, Oliver; NEAVES, Abelardo SalazarDate:2009Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:In this paper, we analyze the money demand functions of the four largest EMU countries and of the four-country (EMU-4) aggregate. We identify reasonable and stable money demand relationships for Germany, France and Spain ...
Title:More Equal but Less Mobile?: Education Financing and Intergenerational Mobility in Italy and in the US
Author(s):ICHINO, Andrea; CHECCHI, Daniele; RUSTICHINI, AldoDate:1999Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:A centralised and egalitarian school system reduces the cost of education for poor families, and so it should reduce income inequality and make intergenerational mobility easier. In this paper we provide evidence that ...
Title:Mothers in An Insider-Outsider Economy: the Puzzle of Spain
Author(s):ADAM-BERNAD, PaulaDate:1996Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:There is growing evidence that social policies towards mothers have important effects on their labour market behaviour. This article argues that these effects are less important in a Male Breadwinner Regime if there is ...
Title:The multiscale causal dynamics of foreign exchange markets
Author(s):BEKIROS, Stelios; MARCELLINO, MassimilianoDate:2013Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This paper relies on wavelet multiresolution analysis to investigate the dependence structure and predictability of currency markets across different timescales. It explores the nature and direction of causality among the ...
Title:Negative Feedbacks in the Economy and Industrial Location
Author(s):BRAKMAN, S.; GARRETSEN, H.; GIGENGACK, R.; VANMARREWIJK, C.; WAGENVOORT, Rien J.L.M.Date:1996Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Incorporating regional asymmetry and negative feedbacks (congestion) in a model of economic geography and international trade shows that complete specialization of production at one location is unlikely. We identify an ...
Title:Network Formation Under Cumulative Advantage: Evidence From the Cambridge High-Tech Cluster
Author(s):GNUTZMANN, HinnerkDate:2008Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:When joining a social network, the already well-connected often make for especially attractive partners because they can facilitate links to other network members. However, the effect is potentially weakened by increasing ...
Title:Network Games
Author(s):GALEOTTI, Andrea; GOYAL, Sanjeev; JACKSON, Matthew O.; VEGA-REDONDO, Fernando; YARIV, LeeatDate:2010Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:In contexts ranging from public goods provision to information collection, a player's well-being depends on his or her own action as well as on the actions taken by his or her neighbours. We provide a framework to analyse ...
Title:New Technology in Schools: Is there a Payoff?
Author(s):MACHIN, Stephen; MCNALLY, Sandra; SILVA, OlmoDate:2007Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Despite its high relevance to current policy debates, estimating the causal effect of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) investment on educational standards remains fraught with difficulties. We exploit a change ...