We take the user cost approach to modeling the financial firm that maximizes capitalized variable profit to investigate whether the monetary transmission mechanism differs in low and high interest rate environments. We use the panel of U.S. commercial banks from 1992 to 2014 to construct the...

We investigate whether the United States economy responds negatively to oil price uncertainty and whether oil price shocks exert asymmetric effects on economic activity. In doing so, we relax the assumption in the existing literature that the data are governed by a single process, modifying the...

We investigate interfuel substitution in the United States using the minflex Laurent demand system and a century of data (from 1919 to 2012). We relax the assumption of constant parameters in the demand system, and also relax the homoskedasticity assumption, instead assuming that the covariance...