We suggest a new parametric approach to estimate the extent of downward nominal wage rigidity in ten European countries between 1994 and 2001. The data base used throughout is the User Data Base (UDB) of the European Community Household Panel (ECHP). The proposed approach is based on the very...

This paper suggests a goodness-of-fit test for parametric families of Archimedean copulas for high dimensional distributions. The test statistic is based on the classical chi-square-statistic but has a nonstandard asymptotic distribution. Monte-Carlo simulations show that the test keeps the...

Recently various exchange rate models capturing the dynamics during the transition from an exchange rate arrangement of floating rates into a currency union have been derived. Technically, these stochastic equilibrium models are diffusion processes which have to be estimated by discretely...