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We develop a novel empirical approach to identify the effectiveness of policies against a pandemic. The essence of our approach is the insight that epidemic dynamics are best tracked over stages, rather than over time. We use a normalization procedure that makes the pre-policy paths of the...
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This paper looks at some implications of data uncertainty for monetary policy. We combine national accounts data revisions with optimal control and filtering experiments on a calibrated model to discuss policy implications of price-versus-volume data uncertainty in GDP data for the United...
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Es wird eine Methode zur Messung des Produktionsfaktors Kapital vorgeschlagen, in der Vermögensarten nach ihrem Nutzungswert im Produktionsprozess gewichtet werden. Dazu werden Nutzungskosten für die einzelnen Anlageklassen mit Hilfe von Daten der Volkswirtschaftlichen Gesamtrechnungen sowie...
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A method is proposed to measure capital services in production. This means that productive assets are weighted … accounts and other sources. The results show that, in the observation period between 1991 and 2010, enterprises' capital … services expand faster than the offcially published capital stock. For the economy as a whole, this applies only to phases of …
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We study whether the accuracy of real-time estimates of the output gap produced by the OECD has improved over time by examining a panel dataset on real-time output gap revisions for 15 countries from 1991 Q1 - 2005 Q4. We use a simple panel data regression and a state space model, with common...
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established by Piketty (2001, 2003). The disappearance of capital income from the income tax base in many countries poses a major … including capital gains to 2010, and the series excluding capital gains to 2008. Second, we derive three homogeneous series by … simulating legislative definitions of capital income prevailing in Germany between 2001 and 2010. For both simulation and the …
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credit more than other banks. However, higher levels of better-quality capital mitigated this effect. Our results suggest …
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