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The stochastic fluctuation of the quantile regression curve

Härdle, Wolfgang Karl; Song, Song - 2008

Let (X1, Y1), . . ., (Xn, Yn) be i.i.d. rvs and let l(x) be the unknown p-quantile regression curve of Y on X. A quantile-smoother ln(x) is a localised, nonlinear estimator of l(x). The strong uniform consistency rate is established under general conditions. In many applications it is necessary...

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When, how fast and by how much do trade costs change in the Euro area?

Herwartz, Helmut; Weber, Henning - 2008

Microfoundations of the euro's effect on euro area trade hinge on the timing, the speed and the size of adjustment in … at the sector level. We find that, due to falling trade costs, trade within the euro area increases between the years … 2000 and 2003 by 10 to 20 percent compared with trade between European countries that are not members of the euro area …

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Monetary transmission right from the start: The (dis)connection between the money market and the ECB's main refinancing rates

Abbassi, Puriya; Nautz, Dieter - 2010

process in the euro area. This paper investigates how money market rates respond to the new information revealed by MRO …

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Uncovered interest rate parity and the expectations hypothesis of the term structure: Empirical results for the US and Europe

Brüggemann, Ralf; Lütkepohl, Helmut - 2005

A system of U.S. and euro area short- and long-term interest rates is analyzed. According to the expectations … parity the difference between the U.S. and euro area longterm interest rates should also be stationary. If all four interest … of four interest rate series. Combining German and European Monetary Union data to obtain the euro area interest rate …

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Are CEOs in family firms paid like bureaucrats? Evidence from Bayesian and frequentist analyses

Block, Jörn Hendrich - 2008

The relationship between CEO pay and performance has been much analyzed in the management and economics literature. This study analyzes the structure of executive compensation in family and non-family firms. In line with predictions of agency theory, it is found that the share of base salary is...

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Simultaneous stochastic volatility transmission across American equity markets

Weber, Enzo - 2008

solved by considering heteroscedasticity of the structural volatility innovations, and estimation takes place in an …

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Depression econometrics: A FAVAR model of monetary policy during the Great Depression

Ahmadi, Pooyan Amir; Ritschl, Albrecht - 2009

The prominent role of monetary policy in the U.S. interwar depression has been conventional wisdom since Friedman and Schwartz [1963]. This paper presents evidence on both the surprise and the systematic components of monetary policy between 1929 and 1933. Doubts surrounding GDP estimates for...

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Modeling the FIBOR/EURIBOR swap term structure: An empirical approach

Blaskowitz, Oliver J.; Herwartz, Helmut; Cadenas … - 2005

In this study we forecast the term structure of FIBOR/EURIBOR swap rates by means of recursive vector autoregressive (VAR) models. In advance, a principal components analysis (PCA) is adopted to reduce the dimensionality of the term structure. To evaluate ex-ante forecasting performance for...

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What are the effects of fiscal policy shocks?

Mountford, Andrew; Uhlig, Harald - 2005

We propose and apply a new approach for analyzing the effects of fiscal policy using vector autoregressions. Unlike most of the previous literature this approach does not require that the contemporaneous reaction of some variables to fiscal policy shocks be set to zero or need additional...

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Structural constant conditional correlation

Weber, Enzo - 2008

A small strand of recent literature is occupied with identifying simultaneity in multiple equation systems through autoregressive conditional heteroscedasticity. Since this approach assumes that the structural innovations are uncorrelated, any contemporaneous connection of the endogenous...

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