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one month of observed data. Moreover, we show that business and consumer expectations, international trade and labour …
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Since the influential paper of Stock and Watson (2002), the dynamic factor model (DFM) has been widely used for forecasting macroeconomic key variables such as GDP. However, the DFM has some weaknesses. For nowcasting, the dynamic factor model is modified by using the mixed data sampling...
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We decompose the economic implications of the Kyoto Protocol at the cross-country level, splitting the total economic impact for each region into contributions from its own emission abatement policy and those from other regions. Our analysis which is based on a large-scale computable general...
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This paper investigates economic convergence in real income per capita between 27 European Union countries. We employ a non-linear latent factor framework to study transitional behavior among economies between 1970 and 2010. Our results offer important insights on the economic catch-up exhibited...
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Recent empirical work has established that 'democracy causes growth'. In this paper, we determine the underlying … the market, endogenously form an 'economic blueprint for growth', which likely differs across countries. We take our model … institutions, as witnessed recently in many countries, may jeopardise the perpetual growth effect of becoming a liberal democracy …
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revisit claims in the literature that money growth is Granger-causal for inflation at low frequencies. Applying frequency … Granger-causal for low-frequency inflation movements, and all variables affect money growth. We therefore interpret opposite … results from bivariate inflation/money growth systems as spurious due to omittedvariable biases. We also analyze the resulting …
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We analyze Granger causality testing in a mixed-frequency VAR, where the difference in sampling frequencies of the …
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