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Fiscal policy, interest rate spreads, and the zero lower bound
Bredemeier, Christian; Jüßen, Falko; Schabert, Andreas - 2015
This paper questions unconventional fiscal policy effects when the monetary policy rate is at the zero lower bound. We provide evidence for the US that the spread between the policy rate and the US-LIBOR, which is more relevant for private sector transactions, increases with government...
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Volatility and growth : governments are key
Jetter, Michael - 2013
paper offers a solution to this disagreement, suggesting that volatility carries a positive direct effect, but also a … volatility is then ambiguous. The paper reveals the underlying endogeneity of government size in a balanced panel of 95 countries … increase of volatility lowers growth by up to 0.57 percentage points in a democracy, but raises growth by 1.74 percentage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010228789
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Financial markets, banks' cost of funding, and firms' decisions : lessons from two crises
Balduzzi, Pierluigi; Brancati, Emanuele; Schiantarelli, … - 2013
We test whether financial fluctuations affect firms' decisions, through their impact on banks' cost of funding. We exploit two shocks to Italian bank CDS spreads and equity valuations: the 2007-2009 financial crisis and the 2010-2012 sovereign debt crisis. Using newly available data linking over...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010229932
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The variability and volatility of sleep: an archetypal approach
Hamermesh, Daniel S.; Pfann, Gerard A. - 2022
individuals' sleep time exhibits both variability and volatility characterized by stationary autoregressive conditional … young children at home. Volatility is greater among parents with young children, slightly greater among men than women, but … independent of other demographics. A theory of economic incentives to minimize the dispersion of sleep predicts that higher …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012805079
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Fixed effects bias in panel data estimators
Buddelmeyer, Hielke; Jensen, Paul H.; Oguzoglu, Umut; … - 2008
Since little is known about the degree of bias in estimated fixed effects in panel data models, we run Monte Carlo simulations on a range of different estimators. We find that Anderson-Hsiao IV, Kiviet's bias-corrected LSDV and GMM estimators all perform well in both short and long panels....
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A simple feasible alternative procedure to estimate models with high-dimensional fixed effects
Guimarães, Paulo (contributor); Portugal, Pedro (contributor) - 2009
In this paper we describe an alternative iterative approach for the estimation of linear regression models with high-dimensional fixed-effects such as large employer-employee data sets. This approach is computationally intensive but imposes minimum memory requirements. We also show that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003794072
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New evidence on the finite sample properties of propensity score matching and reweighting estimators
Busso, Matias; DiNardo, John E.; McCrary, Justin - 2009
Currently available asymptotic results in the literature suggest that matching estimators have higher variance than reweighting estimators. The extant literature comparing the finite sample properties of matching to specific reweighting estimators, however, has concluded that reweighting...
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A computationally practical simulation estimation algorithm for dynamic panel data models with unobserved endogenous state variables
Keane, Michael P.; Sauer, Robert M. - 2009
This paper develops a simulation estimation algorithm that is particularly useful for estimating dynamic panel data models with unobserved endogenous state variables. The new approach can easily deal with the commonly encountered and widely discussed "initial conditions problem," as well as the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003824296
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A martingale representation for matching estimators
Abadie, Alberto; Imbens, Guido - 2009
matching estimators. As an illustration of the applicability of the theory, we derive the asymptotic distribution of a matching …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003826104
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How much can we trust causal interpretations of fixed-effects estimators in the context of criminality?
Bjerk, David - 2009
Researchers are often interested in estimating the causal effect of some treatment on individual criminality. For example, two recent relatively prominent papers have attempted to estimate the respective direct effects of marriage and gang participation on individual criminal activity. One...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003895082