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We collect 2,735 estimates of the elasticity of intertemporal substitution in consumption from 169 published studies that cover 104 countries during different time periods. The estimates vary substantially from country to country, even after controlling for 30 aspects of study design. Our...
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We show that three factors combine to explain the mean excess sensitivity reported in studies estimating consumption Euler equations: the use of macro data, publication bias, and liquidity constraints. When micro data are used, publication bias is corrected for, and the households under...
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The paper introduces 'system priors', their use in Bayesian analysis of econometric time series, and provides a simple and illustrative application. System priors were devised by Andrle and Benes (2013) as a tool to incorporate prior knowledge into an economic model. Unlike priors about...
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This paper proposes a methodology for default probability estimation for low default portfolios, where the statistical … inference may become troublesome. The author suggests using logistic regression models with the Bayesian estimation of … parameters. The piecewise logistic regression model and Box-Cox transformation of credit risk score is used to derive the …
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A key parameter in international economics is the elasticity of substitution between domestic and foreign goods, also called the Armington elasticity. Yet estimates vary widely. We collect 3,524 reported estimates of the elasticity, construct 34 variables that reflect the context in which...
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We collect 1,021 estimates from 92 studies that use the consumption Euler equation to measure relative risk aversion … and that disentangle it from intertemporal substitution. We show that calibrations of risk aversion are typically larger … than estimates thereof. Moreover, reported estimates are typically larger than the underlying risk aversion because of …
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effectiveness may moderate in graying societies. It then uses Bayesian estimation techniques for the U.S., Canada, Japan, U.K., and …
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I examine 468 estimates on the relationship between trading volume and stock returns reported in 44 studies. I deploy recent nonlinear techniques for detecting publication bias together with Bayesian and frequentist model averaging to evaluate the heterogeneity in the estimates. The results...
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A key parameter in structural models is the Frisch elasticity of labor supply at the extensive margin, but empirical estimates vary greatly. We provide a quantitative synthesis of the literature. To this end, we collect 723 estimates from 36 studies along with 22 explanatory variables reflecting...
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non-risk-weighted bank capital ratio (i.e. a positive impact on bank leverage), while these effects have strengthened …
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