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Title: Macroeconomic fluctuations and the labor market Author(s): MORTENSEN, Dale; NAGYPáL, Éva; GUERRIERI, Veronica; REITER, Michael; QUADRINI, Vincenzo; TRIGARI, Antonella; RAVN, Morten O.; SIMONELLI, Saverio; YASHIV, Eran; MOSCARINI, Giuseppe; THOMSSON, Kaj; ROCHETEAU, Guillaume; RUPERT, Peter; WRIGHT, Randall; DANTHINE, Jean-Pierre; KURMANN, André; BOONE, Johnathan; WATSON, Joel Date: 2007 Type of Publication: Article

Title: Macroeconomic Policy Interaction Under Flexible Exchange-Rates - A 2-Country Model Author(s): CORDEN, W. M. Date: 1985 Type of Publication: Article

Title: Macroeconomics of Subsistence Points Author(s): RAVN, Morten O.; SCHMITT-GROHE, Stephanie; URIBE, Martin Date: 2008 Type of Publication: Article Abstract: This paper explores the macroeconomic consequences of preferences displaying a subsistence point. It departs from the existing related literature by assuming that subsistence points are specific to each variety of goods ...

Title: Making Government Accountable: Lessons from a Federal Job Training Program Author(s): COURTY, Pascal; MARSCHKE, Gerald Date: 2007 Type of Publication: Article Abstract: This article describes the evolution of a performance measurement system in a government job training program. In this program, a federal agency establishes performance measures and standards for substate agencies. The ...

Title: Managerial Hedging and Portfolio Monitoring Author(s): BISIN, Alberto; GOTTARDI, Piero; RAMPINI, Adriano Date: 2008 Type of Publication: Article

Title: Mark-to-market Accounting and Liquidity Pricing Author(s): CARLETTI, Elena; ALLEN, Franklin Date: 2008 Type of Publication: Article Abstract: When liquidity plays an important role as in financial crises, asset prices may reflect the amount of liquidity available rather than the asset's future earning power. Using market prices to assess financial institutions’ ...

Title: Market News in Commodity Price Theory: application to the Ethiopian grain market Author(s): OSBORNE, Theresa Date: 2004 Type of Publication: Article

Title: Market regulation and firm performance : the case of smoking bans in the United Kingdom Author(s): ADDA, Jérôme; BERLINSKI, Samuel; MACHIN, Stephen Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Article Abstract: This paper analyzes the effects on firms of a ban on smoking in public places. Our empirical strategy relies on comparing outcomes in Scotland before and after the Scottish smoking ban (introduced in March 2006) with those ...

Title: Market-Structure Determinants of National Brand Private Label Price Differences of Manufactured Food Products: Comment Author(s): HINLOOPEN, Jeroen; MARTIN, Stephen Date: 1997 Type of Publication: Article Abstract: Connor and Peterson [1992] analysed structural and behavioural characteristics explaining differences in price between competing national and private label brands of manufactured food products. Hinloopen and Martin's comment ...

Title: Markets and Contracts Author(s): BISIN, Alberto; GEANAKOPOLS, John; GOTTARDI, Piero; MINELLI, Enrico; POLEMARCHAKIS, Herakles Date: 2011 Type of Publication: Article Abstract: Economies with asymmetric information are encompassed by an extension of the model of general competitive equilibrium that does not require an explicit modeling of private information. Sellers have discretion over deliveries ...

Title: Markov Switching Causality and the Money-Output Relationship Author(s): RAVN, Morten O.; PSARADAKIS, Zacharias; SOLA, Martin Date: 2005 Type of Publication: Article Abstract: The causal link between monetary variables and output is one of the most studied issues in macroeconomics. One puzzle from this literature is that the results of causality tests appear to be sensitive with respect to the ...

Title: Markov-perfect optimal taxation Author(s): ORTIGUEIRA, Salvador Date: 2006 Type of Publication: Article

Title: The Measurement of Growth under Embodied Technical Change Author(s): LICANDRO, Omar; RUIZ-CASTILLO, Javier; DURAN, Jorge Date: 2002 Type of Publication: Article

Title: Mechanism Design with Interdependent Valuations: Efficiency Author(s): MEZZETTI, Claudio Date: 2004 Type of Publication: Article

Title: Mergers and national champions Author(s): MOTTA, Massimo; RUTA, Michele Date: 2008 Type of Publication: Article Abstract: The suspicion that national governments were in various forms promoting or defending domestic national champions (or discouraging foreign ones) arose in a long list of recent merger cases. This paper provides an analysis ...

Title: MIDAS vs. Mixed-Frequency VAR: Nowcasting GDP in the Euro Area Author(s): KUZIN, Vladimir; MARCELLINO, Massimiliano; SCHUMACHER, Christian Date: 2011 Type of Publication: Article Abstract: This paper compares the mixed-data sampling (MIDAS) and mixed-frequency VAR (MF-VAR) approaches to model specification in the presence of mixed-frequency data, e.g. monthly and quarterly series. MIDAS leads to parsimonious ...

Title: The mixed blessing of IMF intervention: Signalling versus liquidity support Author(s): ZWART, Sanne Date: 2007 Type of Publication: Article Abstract: Although IMF support is supposed to benefit a country, it might be bad news that the IMF believes intervention is necessary. This paper analyzes a bank run model in which both the liquidity effect and the signalling effect ...

Title: Model Selection for Nested and Overlapping Nonlinear Dynamic and Possibly Mis-specified Models Author(s): MARCELLINO, Massimiliano; ROSSI, Barbara Date: 2008 Type of Publication: Article

Title: Modeling and Forecasting Exchange-Rates With a Bayesian Time-Varying Coefficient Model Author(s): CANOVA, Fabio Date: 1993 Type of Publication: Article Abstract: 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, Pierre Date: 2010 Type of Publication: Article Abstract: 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 ...

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