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Price variability and price dispersion in a stable monetary environment : evidence from German retail markets

Fengler, Matthias R.; Winter, Joachim - 2000

We investigate the relationship between inflation and price variation using highly disaggregated, weekly price data for … consumption goods recorded in Germany during 1995, a low inflation period. We find a significant positive correlation between the … correlated with price changes. As the rate of inflation rises, both variability and dispersion become affected. During …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009612033

Neoclassical convergence versus technological catch-up : a contribution for reaching a consensus

Desdoigts, Alain - 2000

New macro empirical evidence is provided to assess the relative importance of object and idea gaps in explaining the world income distribution dynamics. Formal statistical hypothesis tests allow us to discriminate between two competing growthmodels: (i) the standard neoclassical growth model...

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Did the Fed surprise the markets in 2001? : a case study for VARs with sign restrictions

Uhlig, Harald - 2001

In 2001, the Fed has lowered interest rates in a series of cuts, starting from 6.5 % at the end of 2000 to 2.0 % by early November. This paper asks, whether the Federal Reserve Bank has been surprising the markets, taking as given the conventional view about the effect of monetary policy shocks....

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Estimation and arbitrage opportunities for exchange rate baskets

Mercurio, Danilo; Torricelli, Costanza - 2001

estimation …

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Net based spreadsheets in quantitative finance

Aydinli, Gökhan - 2002

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Coherent risk measures, valuation bounds, and (my,p)-portfolio optimization

Jaschke, Stefan R.; Küchler, Uwe - 1999

This paper presents a general theory that works out the relation between coherent risk measures, valuation bounds, and certain classes of portfolio optimization problems. It is economically general in the sense that it works for any cash stream spaces, be it in dynamic trading settings, one-step...

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Backtesting beyond VaR

Härdle, Wolfgang; Stahl, Gerhard - 1999

VaR models are related to statistical forecast systems. Within that framework different forecast tasks including Value-at-Risk and shortfall are discussed and motivated. A backtesting method based on the shortfall is developed and applied to VaR forecasts of areal portfolio. The analysis shows...

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Quantile-VaR is the wrong measure to quantify market risk for regulatory purposes

Jaschke, Stefan R. - 2001

Starting from the objective of banking supervision - to minimize the overall costs of banking to the general public - we show that the current standard of quantifying market risk is flawed. It is perfectly aligned with the interests of banks' shareholders and management, but not with the...

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Non-uniformity of job-matching in a transition economy : a nonparametric analysis for the Czech Republic

Profit, Stefan; Sperlich, Stefan - 1998

explorative study aims to shed some light into the black-box of the matching technology by applying nonparametric estimation …

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Nonparametric estimation and testing of interaction in additive models

Sperlich, Stefan; Tjostheim, Dag; Yang, Lijian - 1998

Estimation …

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