, such as, domestic economic growth and inflation. In particular, the asymmetric response of macroeconomic variables to the … oil price increase shocks, it reduces economic growth and increases the inflation rate, but oil price decrease shocks do … is -0.05%, while that against the inflation rate is 0.081%. But oil production shortfall shocks do not have an asymmetric …

. Fourth, firms are found to keep their product prices unchanged unless there are large changes in costs, demand or inflation … reduced impacts on inflation. When the frequency of price adjustments increases, the effects of monetary policy are analyzed …

(ii) is redistributive in favor of the (borrowing-constrained) poor, by targeting an inflation measure that overweighs the …

English Abstract: This paper suggests a Gibbs sampling estimation of an unobserved component cointegrated VAR Model to … smaller or equivalent to the estimation results of Chow-Lin (1971), Denton (1971), Fernandez (1981), and Litterman (1983).The …

. The variance ratio statistic based on in-sample estimation of GARCH-MIDAS models shows that macroeconomic components … stock volatility. In addition to in-sample estimation, we conduct out-of-sample forecasts to investigate adequacy of …