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Indeterminacy in a Forward Looking Regime Switching Model

Farmer, Roger E. A. - 2006

This paper is about the properties of Markov switching rational expectations (MSRE) models. We present a simple monetary policy model that switches between two regimes with known transition probabilities. The first regime, treated in isolation, has a unique determinate rational expectations...

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What Drives the Disposition Effect? An Analysis of a Long-Standing Preference-Based Explanation

Barberis, Nicholas - 2006

explanation for this puzzle is based on prospect theory. Despite its prominence, this explanation has received little formal … scrutiny. We take up this task, and analyze the trading behavior of investors with prospect theory preferences. We find that …, at least for the simplest implementation of prospect theory, the link between these preferences and the disposition …

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Evaluating Welfare with Nonlinear Prices

Reiss, Peter C. - 2006

This paper examines how to evaluate consumer welfare when consumers face nonlinear prices. This problem arises in many settings, such as devising optimal pricing strategies for firms, assessing how price discrimination affects consumers, and evaluating the efficiency costs of many transfer...

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Financial Constraints, Asset Tangibility, and Corporate Investment

Almeida, Heitor - 2006

between capital spending and cash flows is non-monotonic in the firm's asset tangibility. Our theory allows us to use a …

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Environmental Investment and Policy with Distortionary Taxes and Endogenous Growth

Fullerton, Don - 2006

Recent studies consider public R&D spending that affects abatement knowledge and endogenous growth, distortionary taxes that affect physical and human capital formation, pollution taxes that affect environmental degradation, and regeneration that restores natural capital. Our model combines all...

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Predictive Systems : Living with Imperfect Predictors

Pastor, Lubos - 2008

We develop a framework for estimating expected returns---a <i>predictive system</i>---that allows predictors to be imperfectly correlated with the conditional expected return. When predictors are imperfect, the estimated expected return depends on past returns in a manner that hinges on the correlation...

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Predictive Systems : Living with Imperfect Predictors

Pastor, Lubos - 2007

The standard regression approach to modeling return predictability seems too restrictive in one way but too lax in another. A predictive regression models expected returns as an exact linear function of a given set of predictors but does not exploit the likely economic property that innovations...

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DSGE Models in a Data-Rich Environment

Boivin, Jean - 2006

Standard practice for the estimation of dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) models maintains the assumption that economic variables are properly measured by a single indicator, and that all relevant information for the estimation is summarized by a small number of data series. However,...

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On the Existence and Efficiency of Equilibria Under Liability Rules

Singh, Ram - 2006

While the focus of mainstream economic analysis of liability rules remains on negligence liability, recently some legal scholars have argued for the sharing of liability. In this paper, our first objective is contribute to the debate regarding the desirability of the sharing of liability for the...

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Gravity for Dummies and Dummies for Gravity Equations

Baldwin, Richard - 2006

This paper provides a minimalist derivation of the gravity equation and uses it to identify three common errors in the literature, what we call the gold, silver and bronze medal errors. The paper provides estimates of the size of the biases taking the currency union trade effect as an example....

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