end in sight. In this short paper we assess empirically what determines the duration of trade negotiations, focusing on …

unobservable individual heterogeneity, duration dependence, lagged duration dependence and state dependence. Three main results are …-employed (push effect). Second, unemployed individuals are found to be more likely to become self-employed but the duration of their …

interventions) on the duration of the target funds rate. Time deformation of the target funds rate is modelled as an autoregressive … process following the class of ACD models first proposed by Engle and Russell (1998). The duration of the target funds rate is … interventions into the ACD model finds that previous interventions lengthen the duration of the target funds rate. This result is …

We compare the duration and performance of different monetary regimes, especially the contrast between countries those … targeting began only in 1990, the duration of inflation targeting regimes is at least as long as, or longer than all alternative … monetary regimes for comparable countries. Regime duration also matters in monetary policy; older regimes are typically more …

a central bank is to consider whether the duration intervals of past interventions matter for future interventions. The …

-2004. We estimate duration models dealing with selection on unobservables. We use weighted exogenous sampling maximum …