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Testing for Poverty Dominance : An Application to Canada
Chen, Wen-Hao - 2018
The paper proposes and applies statistical tests for poverty dominance that check for whether poverty comparisons can be made robustly over ranges of poverty lines and classes of poverty indices. This helps provide both normative and statistical confidence in establishing poverty ranking across...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012706419
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Inference for Adaptive Time Series Models : Stochastic Volatility and Conditionally Gaussian State Space Form
Bos, Charles S.; Shephard, Neil - 2004
In this paper we replace the Gaussian errors in the standard Gaussian, linear state space model with stochastic volatility processes. This is called a GSSF-SV model. We show that conventional MCMC algorithms for this type of model are ineffective, but that this problem can be removed by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014073593
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Testing for Poverty Dominance : An Application to Canada
Chen, Wen-Hao; Duclos, Jean-Yves - 2021
The paper proposes and applies statistical tests for poverty dominance that check for whether poverty comparisons can be made robustly over ranges of poverty lines and classes of poverty indices. This helps provide both normative and statistical confidence in establishing poverty rankings across...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013324786
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Searching for Keynes : an essay on the political economy of fiscal policy, with application to Canada, 1870-2000 - revised version
Winer, Stanley L.; Ferris, John Stephen - 2003
Keynes' General Theory (1936) is arguably one of the most important books of the twentieth century. His ideas for … stabilizing the aggregate economy have profoundly influenced economic theory as well as popular opinion about what governments can … and should do with respect to the business cycle. On the other hand, whether Keynesian theory has substantially altered …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011509394
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Dynamic effects of monetary policy shocks on macroeconomic volatility
Mumtaz, Haroon; Theodoridis, Konstantinos - 2015
We use a simple New Keynesian model, with firm specific capital, non-zero steady-state inflation, long-run risks and Epstein-Zin preferences to study the volatility implications of a monetary policy shock. An unexpected increases in the policy rate by 150 basis points causes output and inflation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011389786
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Estimation of dynamic discrete choice models by maximum likelihood and the simulated method of moments
Eisenhauer, Philipp; Heckman, James J.; Mosso, Stefano - 2014
We compare the performance of maximum likelihood (ML) and simulated method of moments (SMM) estimation for dynamic discrete choice models. We construct and estimate a simplified dynamic structural model of education that captures some basic features of educational choices in the United States in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010418037
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Cohort Effects in Mortality Modelling : A Bayesian State-Space Approach
Fung, Simon Man Chung - 2019
Cohort effects are important factors in determining the evolution of human mortality for certain countries. Extensions of dynamic mortality models with cohort features have been proposed in the literature to account for these factors under the generalised linear modelling framework. In this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012902374
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Spatial Dependence & Aggregation in Weather Risk Hedging : A Lévy Subordinated Hierarchical Archimedean Copulas (LSHAC) Approach
Zhu, Wenjun - 2019
Adverse weather related risk is a main source of crop production loss and a big concern for agricultural insurers and reinsurers. In response, weather risk hedging may be valuable, however, due to basis risk it has been largely unsuccessful to date. This research proposes the Levy subordinated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012903939
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Cohort Effects in Mortality Modelling : A Bayesian State-Space Approach
Fung, Simon Man Chung - 2019
Cohort effects are important factors in determining the evolution of human mortality for certain countries. Extensions of dynamic mortality models with cohort features have been proposed in the literature to account for these factors under the generalised linear modelling framework. In this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012899554
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Estimation of Dynamic Discrete Choice Models by Maximum Likelihood and the Simulated Method of Moments
Eisenhauer, Philipp - 2014
We compare the performance of maximum likelihood (ML) and simulated method of moments (SMM) estimation for dynamic discrete choice models. We construct and estimate a simplified dynamic structural model of education that captures some basic features of educational choices in the United States in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013045058