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This paper proposes a new paradigm for the analysis of monetary policy. From an econometric point of view this new approach is just as easy to implement as reduced form analysis, but is robust to the Lucas critique. It requires no explicit prior theory and yet it encompasses all standard DSGE...
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In Lisbon the European Council proclaimed a European growth strategy. It considers an average economic u0093growth rate of around 3 percent as a realistic prospect for the coming yearsu0094 and assigns public finances an important role in the process of achieving this goal. This paper addresses...
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We quantify the degree of persistence in unemployment rates of transition countries using a variety of methods benchmarked against the EU. In part of the paper, we work with the concept of linear u0093Hysteresisu0094 as described by the presence of unit roots in unemployment. Since this is...
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In this paper we study the zero frequency spectral properties of fractionally cointegrated long memory processes and introduce a new frequency domain principal components estimator of the cointegration space and the factor loading matrix for the long memory factors. We find that for fractionally...
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Monitoring and forecasting price developments in the euro area is essential in the light of the second pillar of the ECBu0092s monetary policy strategy. This study analyses whether the forecasting accuracy of forecasting aggregate euro area inflation can be improved by aggregating forecasts of...
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Die Target-Forderungen der Deutschen Bundesbank wiesen zwischen Anfang des Jahres 2009 und Anfang des Jahres 2013 ein explosives Verhalten auf. Der Beitrag identifiziert die explosiven Phasen der deutschen Target-Forderungen und diskutiert, welche Ereignisse zur Explosion der deutschen...
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"We revisit the puzzling finding that labour market performance appears to deteriorate, as suggested by negative time trends in empirical matching functions. We investigate whether these trends simply arise from omitted variable bias. Concretely, we consider the omission of job seekers beyond...
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Die Prognose von makroökonomischen Zeitreihen steht häufig vor dem Problem, dass die verwendeten Indikatoren und die Zielzeitreihe in verschiedenen Frequenzen vorliegen. So ist das Bruttoinlandsprodukt nur auf Quartalsbasis verfügbar, während die meisten Indikatoren, wie z.B. das ifo...
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In den letzten Jahren erwiesen sich die deutschen Exporte als der Konjunkturmotor der deutschen Wirtschaft, und Deutschland wurde als Exportweltmeister noch vor den USA gefeiert. Tatsächlich gilt der Titel jedoch nur für die Warenausfuhr. Berücksichtigt man auch Dienstleistungsexporte, so...
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