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In conducting empirical investigations of the permanent income model of consumption and the consumption-based intertemporal asset pricing model, various authors have imposed restrictions on the nature of the substitutability of consumption across goods and over time. In this paper we suggest a...
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This paper examines the quantitative importance of temporal aggregation bias in distorting parameter estimates and … hypothesis tests. Our strategy is to consider two empirical examples in which temporal aggregation bias has the potential to … example investigates the possibility that temporal aggregation bias can lead to spurious Granger causality relationships. The …
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usefully aggregated into a single sector model. Such an aggregation misleads the economist as to the economy's underlying …
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This paper discusses the issue of consistent simple sum aggregation over assets within the context of expected utility … maximizing investors. The first part of the paper extends the Hicks and Leontief aggregation theorems of consumer choice theory … to the portfolio choice problem. Next, necessary and sufficient conditions for consistent simple sum aggregation are …
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This paper explores the relationship between aggregate land rents and aggregate transport costs for land markets in which locations differ solely in terms of accessibility. That there exists a relationship between land rents and transport costs has been recognized at least since the time of von...
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This paper uses historicaI U.S. data to directly estimate the contribution of intergenerational transfers to aggregate capital accumulation. The evidence presented indicates that intergenerational transfers account for the vast majority of aggregate U .S. capital formation; only a negligible...
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.S. manufacturing differ markedly even though response parameters are similar across industries. A similar aggregation effect is noted … estimation procedures. Observationally equivalent aggregation results can be generated by errors in variables models (see Aigner …
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characteristics. A key decision for researchers in estimating this relationship is the level of aggregation, since the gravity … equation is log linear, whereas aggregation involves summing the level rather than the log level of trade flows. In this paper …
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This paper discusses two simple decompositions for aggregate productivity analysis in the presence of distortions and in general equilibrium. The first is a generalization of Baqaee and Farhi (2017) and the second is due to Petrin and Levinsohn (2012). In the process, we propose a new...
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Despite the clear success of forecast combination in many economic environments, several important issues remain incompletely resolved. The issues relate to selection of the set of forecasts to combine, and whether some form of additional regularization (e.g., shrinkage) is desirable. Against...
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