The debate regarding rising temperatures and CO₂ emissions has attracted the attention of economists employing recent econometric techniques. This article extends the previous literature using a dataset that covers 800 000 years, as well as a shorter dataset, and examines the interaction...

This paper proposes a latent factor approach based on a state-space framework in order to identify which factor, if any, dominates price fluctuations in the Chinese stock markets. We also illustrate the connection of such stock price decomposition with several general equilibrium asset pricing...

A number of recent studies have found evidence of a nonlinear term structure relationship in the U.S. This paper extends earlier work and develops tests of the null hypothesis of no cointegration that allow for linear or asymmetric (or symmetric) threshold cointegration under the alternative...

This study examines the determinants of state labor productivity during the 1989 to 2000 period. Using the model developed by Carlino and Voith (1992), we estimate how state cha-racteristics such as population density, education, industrial structure, and business amenities (such as crime...

This paper employs a century of the UK stock market data to examine various sate-space model specifications and Vector Autoregression (VAR) models to investigate how much expected returns and expected dividend growth contribute to movements in the UK price–dividend ratio. We show that the...

We investigate the order of integration of aggregate wage, price and productivity measures for the USA. Our investigation differs from previous studies as we employ recently developed tests that allow, under the alternative hypothesis, for structural change between periods in which the data are...