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We extend the canonical income process with persistent and transitory risk to shock distributions with left-skewness and excess kurtosis, to which we refer as higher-order risk. We estimate our extended income process by GMM for household data from the United States. We find countercyclical...
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This study analyzes the causal effect of an increase in the retirement age on health. We exploit a sizable cohort …-in-Differences approach. The analysis is based on official records covering all individuals insured by the public health system in Germany and …-dimensionality in these health effects. The empirical findings reflect the multi-dimensionality but allow for deriving two broader …
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The equity premium follows a pronounced v-shape pattern around the beginning of recessions. It sharply drops into negative territory just before business cycle peaks and then strongly recovers as the recession unfolds. Recessions are preceded by an inverted yield curve. Thus probit models using...
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this policy causally reduced injury-induced mortality in the country by at least 14% during the five weeks of the ban. We … argue that this estimate constitutes a lower bound on the true impact of alcohol on injury-induced mortality. We also …
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evaluates the impact of this sudden and unexpected five-week alcohol prohibition on mortality due to unnatural causes. We find … the impact of alcohol on short-run mortality, and underscores the severe influence that alcohol has on society - even in …
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We develop a theoretical model with labor market frictions, incomplete financial markets and with households which have two members. Households face unemployment risks but their members adjust their labor supplies to insure against unemployment. We use the model to explain the cyclical...
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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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the estimation severely distorts the analysis of the latest economic dynamics. …
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We introduce a Divisia monetary aggregate for the euro area that accounts for the heterogeneity across member countries both, in terms of interest rates and the decomposition of monetary assets. In most of the euro area countries, the difference between the growth rates of the country-specific...
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We show that one should not use the one-sided Hodrick-Prescott filter (HP-1s) as the real-time version of the two-sided Hodrick-Prescott filter (HP-2s): First, in terms of the extracted cyclical component, HP-1s fails to remove low-frequency fluctuations to the same extent as HP-2s. Second,...
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