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Intervention operations are used by governments to manage their exchange rates but officials rarely confirm their presence in the market, leading inevitably to erroneous reports in the financial press. There are also reports of what we term, unrequited interventions, interventions that the...
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-expected utility theory. Our framework allows us to study irreversible investment projects whose value has a time-variable volatility …
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The following paper discusses the analysis of some types of economic time series using an altered time scale, or … operational time. It is argued that for some series, observations that are ordinarily thought of as equidistant in time are … actually irregularly spaced in a more natural time scale. Section A discusses point or impulse sampling of related series and …
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, while the time span of the data remains fixed, and the cross-sectional dimension is fixed or increasing. We derive a Central … Limit Theorem (CLT) for the cross-sectional beta dispersion at a point in time, enabling us to test whether this quantity … beta dispersion, as a function of time-of-day, changes across days. We extend this further by developing inference …
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The canonical difference-in-differences (DD) model contains two time periods, "pre" and "post", and two groups … effects change over time. I propose a new balance test derived from a unified definition of common trends. I show how to … time fixed effects, control for unit-specific time trends, or exploit a third difference …
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We provide new evidence on the drivers of the early US coronavirus pandemic. We combine an epidemiological model of disease transmission with quasi-random variation arising from the timing of stay-at-home-orders to estimate the causal roles of policy interventions and voluntary social...
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International risk-sharing has far-reaching implications both for economic policy and for basic research in economics. When countries do not share risk, individuals in those countries experience fluctuations in their consumption levels that are undesirable and possibly unnecessary. This paper...
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A significant amount of work time is lost each year due to worker absence, but evidence on the productivity losses from …
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We recover prices of dividend strips on the aggregate stock market using data from derivatives markets. The price of a k-year dividend strip is the present value of the dividend paid in k years. The value of the stock market is the sum of all dividend strip prices across maturities. We study the...
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This paper reviews the recent literature on the production of skills of young persons. The literature features the multiplicity of skills that explain success in a variety of life outcomes. Noncognitive skills play a fundamental role in successful lives. The dynamics of skill formation reveal...
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