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Browsing Max Weber Programme (MWP) by Subject "E32"
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Title:An Empirical Study of Credit Shock Transmission in a Small Open Economy
Author(s):BEDOCK, Nathan; STEVANOVIC, DaliborDate:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:In this paper we identify and measure the effects of credit shocks in a small open economy. To incorporate information from a large number of economic and financial indicators we use the structural factor-augmented VARMA ...
Title:Self-fulfilling Beliefs and Bounded Bubbles in the U.S. Housing Market
Author(s):KASHIWAGI, MasanoriDate:2011-01-01Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:This paper provides an equilibrium framework to organize the following empirical observations on the
U.S. housing market from 1975 to 2007: (i) housing tenure and vacancies were approximately
constant, (ii) rents were ...
Title:The Role of Curvature in the Transformation Frontier for Measuring Technology Shocks
Author(s):MENNUNI, AlessandroDate:2010-10-28Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:In the usual version of the neoclassical growth model used to identify neutral (N-Shock) and investment shocks (I-Shock), a linear transformation frontier between consumption and investment goods is assumed. This paper ...
Title:The Great Moderation, the Great Panic and the Great Contraction
Author(s):BEAN, CharlesDate:2010Type of Publication:Technical ReportSeries/Report no.:EUI MWP LSAbstract:This lecture examines the causes of the recent financial crisis and subsequent recession. On the macroeconomic side, the Great Moderation encouraged an overly optimistic assessment of risk. Combined with low interest rates, ...
Title:Nested Models and Model Uncertainty
Author(s):KRIWOLUZKY, Alexander; STOLTENBERG, Christian A.Date:2009Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:Uncertainty about the appropriate choice among nested models is a central concern for optimal policy when policy prescriptions from those models differ. The standard procedure is to specify a prior over the parameter space ...
Title:Nested Models and Model Uncertainty
Author(s):KRIWOLUZKY, Alexander; STOLTENBERG, Christian A.Date:2009Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:Uncertainty about the appropriate choice among nested models is a central concern for optimal policy when policy prescriptions from those models differ. The standard procedure is to specify a prior over the parameter space ...