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Hard-to-measure goods and services : essays in honor of Zvi Griliches

Berndt, Ernst R. (contributor); Griliches, Zvi (honouree); … - 2007

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003399106

How Large is the Bias is Self-Reported Disability?

Benitez-Silva, Hugo - 2000

A pervasive concern with the use of self-reported health and disability measures in behavioral models is that they are biased and endogenous. A commonly suggested explanation is that survey respondents exaggerate the severity of health problems and incidence of disabilities in order to...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471248

Understanding Inflation : Implications for Monetary Policy

Cecchetti, Stephen G. - 2000

This paper discusses how optimal monetary policy is affected by differences in the combination of shocks an economy experiences and the rigidities it exhibits. Without both nominal rigidities and economic shocks, monetary policy would be irrelevant. Recognizing this, policymakers increasingly...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471294

On the Measurement of the International Propagation of Shocks

Rigobon, Roberto - 1999

In this paper I offer an alternative identification assumption that allows one to test for changing patterns regarding the international propagation of shocks when endogenous variables, omitted variables, and heteroskedasticity are present in the data. Using this methodology, I demonstrate that...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471430

No Contagion, Only Interdependence : Measuring Stock Market Co-movements

Forbes, Kristin - 1999

This paper examines stock market co-movements. It begins with a discussion of several conceptual issues involved in measuring these movements and how to test for contagion. Standard tests examine if cross-market correlation in stock market returns increase during a period of crisis. The measure...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471523

Estimating Returns to Schooling When Schooling is Misreported

Kane, Thomas J. - 1999

We propose a general method of moments technique to identify measurement error in self-reported and transcript …, because the measurement error in educational attainment is non-classical, IV estimates also tend to be biased, although the … magnitude of the bias depends upon the nature of the measurement error in the region of educational attainment affected by the …

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Measuring Bubble Expectations and Investor Confidence

Shiller, Robert J. - 1999

This paper presents evidence on attitude changes among investors in the US stock market. Two basic attitudes are explored: bubble expectations and investor confidence. Semiannual time-series indicators of these attitudes are presented for US stock market institutional investors based on...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471792

Quality Improvement in Health Care : A Framework for Price and Output Measurement

Shapiro, Irving - 1999

how this framework might be used to improve measurement of health care prices and output …

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Measuring Upward Mobility

Ray, Debraj; Génicot, Garance - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We develop a measure of upward mobility that distills central features of the relative and absolute approaches to measuring mobility. The former is embodied in the Growth Progressivity axiom: transfers of instantaneous growth rates from relatively rich to poor individuals increases upward...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012938765

The Subjective Inflation Expectations of Households and Firms : Measurement, Determinants, and Implications

Weber, Michael; D'Acunto, Francesco; Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Households' and firms' subjective inflation expectations play a central role in macroeconomic and intertemporal microeconomic models. We discuss how subjective inflation expectations are measured, the patterns they display, their determinants, and how they shape households' and firms' economic...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013210074

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