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We document the consequences of real exchange rate movements for the employment, hours, and hourly earnings of workers in manufacturing industries across individual states. Exchange rates have statistically significant wage and employment implications in these local labor markets. The importance...
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panel data. We construct point predictors using Tweedie's formula for the posterior mean of heterogeneous coefficients under … Carlo study. In an empirical application we use the predictor to forecast revenues for a large panel of bank holding …
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When the VAR representation of a times series has a non-fundamental representation, standard SVAR techniques cannot be used to exactly identify the effects of structural shocks. This problem is know to potentially arise when one of the structural shocks represents news about the future. However,...
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GNP shock that holds consumption constant. This is intuitive: if consumption does not change, permanent income did not … change, so the change in GNP should be transitory. Similarly, a stock price shock that holds dividends constant suggests a … discount rate change, and prices display a large transitory movement in response to this shock. The paper also examines …
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This paper considers VAR models incorporating many time series that interact through a few dynamic factors. Several econometric issues are addressed including estimation of the number of dynamic factors and tests for the factor restrictions imposed on the VAR. Structural VAR identification based...
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Fluctuations in real GNP have traditionally been viewed as transitory deviations from a deterministic time trend. The purpose of this paper is to review some of the recent developments that have led to a new view of output fluctuations and then to provide some additional evidence. Using post-war...
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We construct shock elasticities that are pricing counterparts to impulse response functions. Recall that impulse … response functions measure the importance of next-period shocks for future values of a time series. Shock elasticities measure … the contributions to the price and to the expected future cash flow from changes in the exposure to a shock in the next …
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This paper uses factor analytic methods to decompose industrial production (IP) into components arising from aggregate shocks and idiosyncratic sector-specific shocks. An approximate factor model finds that nearly all (90%) of the variability of quarterly growth rates in IP are associated with...
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dispersion should also have increased. The relevant data for the US is problematic, so we utilize a UK panel dataset covering the …
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Making inferences about aggregate business cycles from regional variation alone is diffcult because of economic channels and shocks that differ between regional and aggregate economies. However, we argue that regional business cycles contain valuable information that can help discipline models...
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