Showing 1 - 10 of 1,822
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012207562
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000970179
Health expenditure data almost always include extreme values, implying that the underlying distribution has heavy tails. This may result in infinite variances as well as higher-order moments and bias the commonly used least squares methods. To accommodate extreme values, we propose an estimation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014424363
We propose a novel, multilaterally consistent productivity approach-based indicator to assess the international price competitiveness of 57 industrialized and emerging economies. It is designed to be a useful assessment tool for monetary policy authorities and, thereby, differs from previously...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010373688
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001365350
is fundamentally uncertain which covariates are relevant. Thus cointegration is often analyzed in partial systems … significant cointegration outcome using a bootstrapped rank test (Cavaliere, Rahbek, and Taylor, 2012) in the bivariate sub … reject the null of no cointegration, but by simulation we find that they display very low power, such that the (bivariate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011843041
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011566828
In this paper, we analyze which currencies can be regarded as safe haven currencies. Our empirical approach allows us to distinguish between a low- and high stress regime, and to control for the impact of carry trade reversals and other fundamental determinants. We therefore address the question...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010433356
unit root and cointegration tests are criticized for their low power to detect rational bubbles that periodically collapse …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009704893
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003528371