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Banking on snow : bank capital, risk, and employment

Baumgartner, Simon; Stomper, Alex; Schober, Thomas; … - 2022

How does small-firm employment respond to exogenous labor productivity risk? We find that this depends on the … depends on the weather. Weather risk reduces this employment, and the effect is stronger in regions where the regional banks … have less equity capital. Bank capitalization also proxies for the extent to which the regional banks' borrowers can obtain …

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Forecasting time series subject to multiple structural breaks

Pesaran, M. Hashem (contributor); … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Google econometrics and unemployment forecasting

Askitas, Nikolaos; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2009

The current economic crisis requires fast information to predict economic behavior early, which is difficult at times of structural changes. This paper suggests an innovative new method of using data on internet activity for that purpose. It demonstrates strong correlations between keyword...

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Assessing forecast uncertainties in a VECX model for Switzerland : an exercise in forecast combination across models and observation windows

Assenmacher-Wesche, Katrin (contributor); … - 2007

. Forecast uncertainty is evaluated in three different dimensions. First, we investigate the effect on forecasting performance of …

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Exponent of cross-sectional dependence : estimation and inference

Bailey, Natalia; Kapetanios, George; Pesaran, M. Hashem - 2012

An important issue in the analysis of cross-sectional dependence which has received renewed interest in the past few years is the need for a better understanding of the extent and nature of such cross dependencies. In this paper we focus on measures of cross-sectional dependence and how such...

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Time aggregation and state dependence in welfare receipt

Bhuller, Manudeep; Brinch, Christian; Königs, Sebastian - 2016

Dynamic discrete-choice models are an important tool in studies of state dependence in benefit receipt. A common assumption of such models is that benefit receipt sequences follow a conditional Markov process. This property has implications for how estimated period-to-period benefit transition...

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Examining the impact of macro-economic conditions on income inequality

Jäntti, Markus; Jenkins, Stephen - 2001

This paper proposes a new approach for analyzing the relationship between macroeconomic factors and the income distribution. The conventional method of analysis is regression of summary inequality indices on variables such as the unemployment and inflation rates. Building on the lessons from...

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Estimating the smoothing parameter in the so-called Hodrick-Prescott Filter

Schlicht, Ekkehart (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Growth in the shadows : effect of the shadow economy on U.S. economic growth over more than a century

Goel, Rajeev K.; Saunoris, James W.; Schneider, Friedrich - 2017

This paper provides a long-term view by studying the effect of the underground or shadow economy on economic growth in the Unites States over the period 1870 to 2014. Shadow activities might spur or retard economic growth depending on their interactions with the formal sector and impacts on the...

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Explaining happiness trends in Europe

Easterlin, Richard A.; O'Connor, Kelsey J. - 2023

In Europe differences among countries in the overall change in happiness since the early 1980s have been due chiefly to the generosity of welfare state programs - increasing happiness going with increasing generosity and declining happiness with declining generosity. This is the principal...

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