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possibility is to adopt restrictions from economic theory. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the implications of the …
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Alternative modeling strategies for specifying subset VAR models are considered. It is shown that under certain conditions a testing procedure based on t-ratios is equivalent to sequentially eliminating lags that lead to the largest improvement in a prespecified model selection criterion. A...
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This paper investigates the behaviour in repeated decision situations. The experimental study shows that subjects show … low or no risk-aversion, but put very high value on the opportunity to sell the lottery in every stage of the decision … behaviour ; decision-making experiments …
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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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Recent investigations of the transmission mechanism of German monetary policy arrive at quite different conclusions regarding its stability during the period of monetary targeting by the Bundesbank. In this study small dynamic models for the monetary sector of the German economy are analyzed in...
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The most important policy instruments of the Bundesbank and of the coming European Central Bank involve lending to … domestic credit institutions. In this monetary setup, banks use short-term central bank credits extensively in order to … borrowed reserves is of crucial importance for monetary policy practice. -- Loan and money supply ; central bank lending …
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decision situation. …
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In this paper we present an experiment on the false consensus effect. Unlike previous experiments, we provide monetary incentives for revealing the actual estimation of others' behavior. In each session and round sixteen subjects make a choice between two options simultaneously. Then they...
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In this article we model the log of the U.S. and the U.K. real oil prices in terms of fractionally integrated processes with a mean shift. We use different versions of the tests of Robinson (1994), which have standard null and local limit distributions. The results indicate that if we model the...
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