Title:Are Small Countries Able to set their Own Interest Rates? Assessing the implications of the macroeconomic trilemma
Author(s):HERWARTZ, Helmut; ROESTEL, JanDate:2010Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:According to the ’macroeconomic trilemma’ the ability of small economies to pursue an independent monetary policy is jointly determined by country specific foreign exchange (FX) rate flexibility and capital mobility. In ...
Title:Generalized Least Squares Estimation for Cointegration Parameters Under Conditional Heteroskedasticity
Author(s):HERWARTZ, Helmut; LUETKEPOHL, HelmutDate:2009Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:In the presence of generalized conditional heteroscedasticity (GARCH) in the residuals of a vector error correction model (VECM), maximum likelihood (ML) estimation of the cointegration parameters has been shown to be ...