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Administrative tax data indicate that U.S. top income and wealth shares are substantial and increasing rapidly (Piketty and Saez 2003, Saez and Zucman 2014). A key reason for using administrative data to measure top shares is to overcome the under-representation of families at the very top that...
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Because policymakers may consider the state of the economy when setting taxes, endogeneity bias can arise in regression models that estimate relationships between economic variables and taxes. This paper quantifies the policy endogeneity bias and estimates the impact of R&D tax incentives on R&D...
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In this paper, we extract common factors from a cross-section of U.S. macro-variables and Treasury zero-coupon yields. We find that two macroeconomic factors have an important predictive content for government bond yields and excess returns. These factors are not spanned by the cross-section of...
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pattern that is consistent with Hicks' composite-good theorem and that may be used for forecasting. To determine whether one …
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from other aspects of the forecasting process, resulting in inefficient forecasting techniques and seemingly puzzling … forecasting process. …
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Exchange rate forecasting is hard and the seminal result of Meese and Rogoff (1983) that the exchange rate is well … constructing other forecasting models. However, in several other macro and financial forecasting applications, researchers in … recent years have considered methods for forecasting that combine the information in a large number of time series. One …
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This paper provides an introduction to predictable forecast uncertainty in empirical economic modelling. The sources of both predictable and unpredictable forecast uncertainty are categorized. Key features of predictable forecast uncertainty are illustrated by several analytical models,...
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If forecasts of economic activity are to rely on preliminary data, the predictable component of the data revisions should be taken into account. This paper applies the Kalman filter to improve the forecast accuracy of published preliminary estimates of retail sales. Successive estimates of...
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construct volatility forecasts, which compare favorably with some leading alternatives in an out-of-sample forecasting exercise. …
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forecasting ability of three more sophisticated models (two GARCH models and a two-state Markov switching model) and two simple …
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