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-sample, critical values. In fact, economic theory suggests that cointegration is unlikely to be observed in efficient markets. However …This paper is a response to the literature that tests for cointegration between national stock market indices. It … argues that apparent findings of cointegration in other studies may often be due to the use of asymptotic, rather than small …
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The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has moved away from a broad money target toward a “multiple indicators” approach to the conduct of monetary policy. In adopting such a framework, it is necessary to know which of the many potential indicators provide the most reliable and timely information on...
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This paper assesses the performance of three types of commodity price forecasts—those based on judgment, those relying exclusively on historical price data, and those incorporating prices implied by commodity futures. For most of the 15 commodities in the sample, spot and futures prices appear...
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We propose a dynamic production function of population health and mortality from birth onwards. Our parsimonious model … provides an excellent fit for the mortality and survival curves for both primate and human populations since 1816. The model … mortality gradients across socio-economic statuses, (ii) non-monotonic dynamic effects of in-utero shocks, (iii) persistent or …
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This paper develops an overlapping agents model with age-specific mortality rates. The analytical framework also nests … Blanchard''s (1985) ""perpetual youth"" model as a special, though perhaps not realistic, case. With age specific mortality … replicate the empirical relation between age and mortality. The comparative implications for deficit finance are also examined …
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money demand functions. Notably, it summarizes the salient features of a number of recent studies that applied cointegration …
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from 98 countries, we find strong evidence for cointegration between nominal exchange rates and monetary fundamentals. We …
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This paper applies the maximum likelihood panel cointegration method of Larsson and Lyhagen (2007) to test the strong … contrasted to those from the Pedroni (1995) cointegration tests and fully modified OLS and dynamic OLS esimators of the …
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This paper empirically analyzes the short-run effects of monetary and fiscal policy on aggregate demand, using the two-step structural error correction method. This method has an advantage over the standard reduced-form error correction method in providing a meaningful interpretation for impulse...
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