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Recently there has been a great deal of interest in studying monetary policy under model uncertainty. We point out that different assumptions about the uncertainty may result in drastically different robust' policy recommendations. Therefore, we develop new methods to analyze uncertainty about...
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This paper provides two alternative estimation and testing procedures of a representative-agent model of asset pricing which relies on a particular parametrization of non-expected-utility preferences. The first is based on maximum-likelihood estimates, supplemented with an explicit model of time...
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Error-correction models for cointegrated economic variables are commonly interpreted as reflecting partial adjustment of one variable to another. We show that error-correction models may also arise because one variable forecasts another. Reduced-form estimates of error-correction models cannot...
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Many questions in economics involve long-run or trend variation and covariation in time series. Yet, time series of typical lengths contain only limited information about this long-run variation. This paper suggests that long-run sample information can be isolated using a small number of...
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railways, newly-constructed spatially-disaggregated data for London from 1801-1921, and a quantitative urban model to provide … buildings in Greater London by 20 percent or more, and brings down commuting into the City of London from more than 370,000 to …
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This study provides new evidence on the impact of air pollution in London over the century from 1866-1965. To identify … weeks with elevated pollution levels I use new data tracking the timing of London's famous fog events, which trapped … exposure due to fog events accounted for at least one out of every 200 deaths in London during this century. I provide evidence …
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This paper examines the consequences of the 2015 reform on the London fixing in the interbank forex market, which …
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West Germany's external debt and create a series of favourable debt repayment conditions. The London Debt Agreement (LDA …
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This paper uses an original data set of more than 3000 cases from 1918 to 1926 in the Central Criminal Courts of London …
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We use the German bombing of London during the Second World War as an exogenous source of variation to provide evidence … destruction, property values, and socioeconomic composition in London before and after the Second World War. We develop a …
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