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Weekly repo auctions are the European Central Bank's most important policy instrument. Provided that banks bid seriously, these auctions should reveal useful information about banks' liquidity needs and the stance of monetary policy. However 1 as we show in this paper, the applied auction rules...
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The third generation UMTS auction in Germany raised an enormous amount of revenue, and at the same time achieved a more … was predominantly employed in Europe. -- auctions ; telecommunications ; industrial organization ; game theory …
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This paper presents the results of experiments carried out in two countries, Germany and Bulgaria, and for different … main results obtained in Germany were replicated with the Bulgarian subjects. …
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The second–generation GSM spectrum auction in Germany is probably the most clear cut example of a low price outcome in … of that game. -- multi-unit auctions ; spectrum auctions ; telecommunications ; industrial organization ; game theory …
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This paper analyzes a two-stage sealed-bid auction that is frequently employed in privatization, takeover, and merger and acquisition contests. This auction format yields the same expected revenue as the open ascending (English) auction, yet is less susceptible to preemptive bidding and...
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theory but rather base the decision of the lag structure on a robust Lagrange Multiplier test. In contrast to U.S. data we …
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We reexamine the expectations theory of the term structure focusing on the question how monetary policy actions … tests of expectations theory this implication only requires rational expectations but not stationary risk premia. Therefore …, its empirical test sheds new light on the importance of expectations theory for the determinants of the term structure of …
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A small macroeconomic model is constructed to study the transmission of the monetary policy conducted by the Deutsche Bundesbank (DBB) since the middle of the 1970s. For this purpose quarterly, seasonally unadjusted data for the period from 1975 to 1998 are used, that is, the period until the...
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This paper studies the smooth transition regression model where regressors are I(1) and errors are I(0). The regressors and errors are assumed to be dependent both serially and contemporaneously. Using the triangular array asymptotics, the nonlinear least squares estimator is shown to be...
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A new kind of mixture autoregressive model with GARCH errors is introduced and applied to the U.S. short-term interest rate. According to the diagnostic tests developed in the paper and further informal checks the model is capable of capturing both of the typical characteristics of the...
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