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to obtain better elasticity measures, and to better characterize their accuracy. Our results show much heterogeneity in … the estimates of the elasticity of substitution across industrial sectors. This, in turn, points to heterogeneity across …
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We develop a technique for analyzing the response dynamics of economic variables to structural shocks in linear rational expectations models. Our work differs fromstandard SVARs since we allow expectations of future variables to enter structural equations. We show how to estimate the...
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This study addresses the issue of relations between the balances of individual sectors, applying standard statistical measures. A number of general observations were make. First, it is apparent that imbalances of the public, private and external sectors in most EU countries have tended to...
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study the implications of heterogeneity in forecasts of the central bank and private agents for the performance of interest …
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typical estimations. In this paper, we show how heterogeneity in pricing behavior is relevant to both questions. We detail the … data, can be fully attributable to a heterogeneity bias. JEL Classification: C10, C22, E31, E52 …
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The paper shows that there is a substantial degree of heterogeneity in forecast accuracy among Fed watchers. Based on a … basis points between the best and worst-performers across the sample. This heterogeneity is found to be related to both the … anticipating monetary policy. Moreover, systematic forecaster heterogeneity is economically important as it leads to greater …
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This paper studies optimal monetary policy responses in an economy featuring sectorial heterogeneity in the frequency …
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involving multiple central banking traditions. How does this heterogeneity affect the ability of economic agents to understand … banking in the past. In large part this heterogeneity can be traced to differences in forecasting models. While some …
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This paper proposes a general equilibrium model with heterogeneous households and a financial market where each financial instrument provides liquidity services in addition to enabling a transfer of purchasing power over time. Importantly, liquidity services may be asymmetric according to...
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The paper analyses the heterogeneity in the link between macroeconomic fundamentals and exchange rates. For a set of … exchange rate configurations over the past 25 years. Despite a significant decline over time, this heterogeneity remains high … effective US dollar exchange rate. The paper finds that this heterogeneity is not only due to policy choices of inflexible …
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