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the origin of the aggregate volatility reduction. We show that states with relatively high concentrations in the durable-goods …
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In this paper we provide international evidence on the issue of whether the optimizing IS equation is more stable than a backward-looking alternative. The international evidence consist of estimates of IS equations on quarterly data for the UK and Australia, both for the full sample of the last...
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-theoretic environment with divisible money and goods. We find that in such a setting, a positive feedback between work and shopping effort …This paper investigates the relationship between money growth, inflation, and productive activity in a general … equilibrium model where search frictions motivate the transactions role of money. The use of a multiple matching technique, where …
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Structural vector autoregression (SVAR) models are commonly used to investigate the effect of structural shocks on economic variables. The identifying restrictions imposed in many of these exercises have been criticized in the literature. This paper extends this literature by showing that if the...
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Presented at the 19th Symposium of the Society for Nonlinear Dynamics and Econometrics, the Institute for International Economic Policy, Elliott School of International Affairs, The George Washington University, Washington D.C.
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Delivered at the 119th Annual Arkansas Bankers Association & Tradeshow, Day with the Commissioner, Hot Springs, AR. May 1, 2009.
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The authors sketch a framework for monitoring macroeconomic activity in real-time and push it in new directions. In particular, they focus not only on real activity, which has received most attention to date, but also on inflation and its interaction with real activity. As for the recent...
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A pair of simple modifications-in the forecast error and forecast error variance-to the Kalman filter recursions makes possible the filtering of models in which one or more state variables is truncated normal and latent. Such recursions are broadly applicable to macroeconometric models, such as...
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Indiana University, Bloomington, Ind., Oct. 2, 2008
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Regional Economic Summit, Evansville, Ind., Nov. 20, 2008
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