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Social security privatization and financial market risk : lessons from US financial history
Burtless, Gary - 2000
hypothetical pensions U.S. workers would have obtained between 1911 and 1999 if they had accumulated retirement savings in … with a new system of mandatory defined-contribution private pensions. Proponents claim that private plans offer better … present in certain types of public retirement system, but a public system has one important advantage over private pensions …
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When does it hurt? : the exchange rate "pain threshold" for German exports
Belke, Ansgar; Goecke, Matthias; Günther, Martin - 2009
This paper deals with the impact of the $/¿ exchange rate on German exports in the period from 1995Q1 to 2008Q4. Our main aim is to identify "pain thresholds" for German exporters. We rely on a non-linear model according to which suddenly strong spurts of exports occur when changes of the EXR...
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Long memory and volatility dynamics in the US dollar exchange rate
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Gil-Alaña, Luis A. - 2010
This paper focuses on nominal exchange rates, specifically the US dollar rate vis-à-vis the Euro and the Japanese Yen at a daily frequency. We model both absolute values of returns and squared returns using long-memory techniques, being particularly interested in volatility modelling and...
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Long memory and fractional integration in high frequency financial time series
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Gil-Alaña, Luis A. - 2010
This paper analyses the long-memory properties of high frequency financial time series. It focuses on temporal aggregation and the influence that this might have on the degree of dependence of the series. Fractional integration or I(d) models are estimated with a variety of specifications for...
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Conditional volatility and correlations of weekly returns and the VaR analysis of 2008 stock market crash
Pesaran, Bahram; Pesaran, M. Hashem - In: Economic modelling 27 (2010) 6, pp. 1398-1416
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Global imbalances, cross-market linkages, and the financial crisis : a multivariate Markov-switching analysis
Chevallier, Julien - In: Economic modelling 29 (2012) 3, pp. 943-973
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The dynamics of earnings in Germany : evidence from social security records
Bönke, Timm; Giesecke, Matthias; Lüthen, Holger - 2015
This paper uncovers ongoing trends in idiosyncratic earnings volatility across generations by decomposing residual earnings auto-covariances into a permanent and a transitory component. We employ data on complete earnings life cycles forprime age men born 1935 through 1974 that covers earnings...
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The effect of growth volatility on income inequality
Huang, Ho-chuan; Fang, Wen-shwo; Miller, Stephen M.; … - In: Economic modelling 45 (2015), pp. 212-222
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An empirical model of fractionally cointegrated daily high and low stock market prices
Baruník, Jozef; Dvořáková, Sylvie - In: Economic modelling 45 (2015), pp. 193-206
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A fractal version of the Hull-White interest rate model
Hainaut, Donatien - In: Economic modelling 31 (2013), pp. 323-334
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