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as it depends on initial inventory stocks and on the random disturbances within the period. Section 4 presents, for …, we use these results to present the dynamics of inventory behavior and the statistical relationships between real wages …
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the gradual adjustment of inventory stocks. Two microeconomic models of inventory holdings are formulated. Both imply …
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second is that inventory movements are quite persistent, even conditional on sales. To consider explanations for the two …, or some third, alternative provides a satisfactory explanation of inventory behavior. We suggest several directions for … future research that promise to improve our understanding of inventory behavior and thus of business cycles …
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This paper examines monetary policy in Rudebusch and Svensson's (1999) two equation macroeconomic model when the policymaker recognizes that the model is an approximation and is uncertain about the quality of that approximation. It is argued that the minimax approach of robust control provides a...
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This paper develops a theory of dynamic pessimism and its impact on asset prices. Notions of time-varying pessimism …
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Economists typically check the robustness of their results by comparing them across plausible ranges of parameter values and model structures. A preferable approach to robustness--for the purposes of policymaking and evaluation--is to design policy that takes these ranges into account. We modify...
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misspecification so small that it is difficult to detect statistically and cannot be ruled out based on economic theory. This is …
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In this paper we discuss the properties of confidence intervals for regression parameters based on robust standard errors. We discuss the motivation for a modification suggested by Bell and McCaffrey (2002) to improve the finite sample properties of the confidence intervals based on the...
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This paper describes the results of a Monte Carlo study of certain aspects of robust regression confidence region estimation for linear models with one, five, and seven parameters. One-step sine estimators (c = l.42) were used with design matrices consisting of short-tailed, Gaussian, and...
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The estimator holding the central place in the theory of the multivariate "errors-in-the-variables" (EV) model results …
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