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This Selected Issues paper discusses Romania’s modeling monetary policy. A simple Forecasting and Policy Analysis System (FPAS) for Romania has been designed to help in the preparation of the IMF staff’s forecasts and policy assessments. A major advantage of this approach is that...
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provides a deeper understanding of the link between asset prices and consumption. It shows that this approach gives only a … partial explanation for recent trends in US consumption. Comparing wealth effects in Anglo Saxon countries with continental … consumption. …
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in beer quality has been one of the drivers behind the spectacular growth of beer consumption in several Eastern European … countries. Most remarkable was the growth in the Russian beer market, where beer consumption more than quadrupled over the … improvement in the quality of beer has been an important driver behind rapid growth in beer consumption in Russia. In den letzten …
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change in asset or portfolio return affects household’s consumption growth, using a sample of households from the Consumer … Expenditure Survey. Since changes in housing return can affect consumption of households over time, we investigate whether the … affects consumption growth, and housing is an important asset to account for in the household portfolio. …
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’s consumption growth. The estimates obtained using real after-tax composite return are about 0.15-0.3 and are more robust to linear … and nonlinear estimations, different consumption measures, and various time periods than those obtained by using …
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decreasing returns to labour. We show that this requires that consumption and leisure are both highly intertemporally …
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This paper focuses on two main issues. First, we find that, on average, households’ discount rates decline. This implies dynamically inconsistent preferences. Second, we calculate an indicator of the degree of dynamic inconsistency that may help us to understand how households overcome their...
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The implications of Salisbury and Feinberg's (2010) paper [Salisbury, L. C., F. M. Feinberg. 2010. Alleviating the constant stochastic variance assumption in decision research: Theory, measurement, and experimental test. (1) 1–17] for the process of model development and testing in the field...
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When making decisions that involve tradeoffs between the quality and timing of desirable outcomes, people consistently discount the value of future outcomes. A puzzling finding regarding such decisions is the extremely high rate at which people discount future monetary outcomes. Most economists...
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__Abstract__ Address delivered at the occasion of accepting the appointment of Professor of Behavioural Economics with a focus on Intertemporal Choice at the Erasmus School of Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam, on Friday May 9, 2014. "The ageing of society and the recent financial crisis...
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