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There is a wide literature on the dynamic adjustment of employment and its relationship with the business cycle. In … the phase of the business cycle. Output, employment, labour supply and real earnings are found to have a common cyclical …-switching vector-equilibrium-correction model with three regimes (representing recession, normal growth, and high growth) provides a …
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This paper uses U.S. monthly industrial production employment data between 1964 and 2000 to examine the dynamic labor …
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This paper examines the frequency-domain implications of the serial correlation common feature in order to evaluate its merits as an indicator of common business cycles among economic variables. It is shown that the presence of the serial correlation common feature in the first differences of a...
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We show in this article that fractionally integrated univariate models for GDP lead to a better replication of the main business cycle characteristics. We firstly show that the business cycle features are clearly affected by the degree of integration as well as by the other short run (AR, MA,...
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This paper serves as a partial introduction to and survey of the literature on Markov-switching models. We review the history of this class of models, describe their mathematical structure, and exposit the basic ideas behind estimation and inference. The paper also describes how the approach can...
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This paper provides the strongest evidence to-date on the predictability of real stock prices over long horizons. Ex ante forecasts account for over two-thirds of the variation of the growth rate of real stock prices over ten year spans from 1940 through 2001. The paper forecasts negative growth...
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