The strong consumption growth in a period of falling stock market and a moderate recession in the U.S. has sparked off a debate about the role of housing wealth as one of the determinants of consumption. The literature is divided over the issue whether the effect of change in the financial...

Korhonen and Peresetsky (2013) suggested a new Kalman-filter type model of financial markets to extract a global stochastic trend from discrete non-synchronous data on daily stock market index returns from different markets. We extend this model to allow the correlation between increments of...

This paper focuses on the dynamic misspecification that characterizes the class of small-scale New-Keynesian models and provides a `natural' remedy for the typical difficulties these models have in accounting for the rich contemporaneous and dynamic correlation structure of the data, generally...