adjustment of the contract payment, involving adjustment costs for both players. Players’ payoffs from trade under the contract … whenever the contract payment relative to the outcome of an adjustment passes a certain threshold, depending among other things … of the adjustment costs. There is strategic substitutability in the choice of thresholds, so that if one player becomes …

This study investigates whether exchange rate flexibility aids real exchange rate adjustment based on intra-period data … produces faster or slower real exchange rate adjustment than the much less flexible official rate does. Half-life estimates of … adjustment speeds are obtained using fractional time series analysis. We find no systematic evidence that greater exchange rate …

We develop a programming algorithm that predicts a balanced-panel mix-adjusted house price index for arbitrary spatial …

The paper presents a general theory of the aggregation of prices and quantities that unifies the field and relates … topics that in the past have been treated separately and unsatisfactorily, or not at all. The theory does without the common … the theory lead to Törnqvist indexes defined on the appropriate data set. A numerical example confirms that in the non …

The production index is an important indicator for assessing the cyclical state of the economy. Unfortunately, the … part of those nuisance components are explicitly considered in the seasonal adjustment procedures used by statistical …