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, with both real and nominal frictions, and with sufficiently wide ranges for their parameterers. This identification …
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This note points out a hitherto unrecognised identification issue in a class of rational expectations (RE) models with … identification failure is illustrated with a New Keynesian model that can be solved analytically. …
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Each week, the Dutch Postcode Lottery (PCL) randomly selects a postal code, and distributes cash and a new BMWto lottery participants in that code. We study the effects of these shocks on lottery winners and their neighbors.Consistent with the life-cycle hypothesis, the effects on winners’...
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Each week, the Dutch Postcode Lottery (PCL) randomly selects a postal code, and distributes cash and a new BMWto lottery participants in that code. We study the effects of these shocks on lottery winners and their neighbors.Consistent with the life-cycle hypothesis, the effects on winners’...
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Rising wage inequality in the U.S. and Britain (especially in the 1980s) and rising continental European unemployment (with rather stable wage inequality) have led to a popular view in the economics profession that these two phenomena are related to negative relative demand shocks against the...
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This paper investigates whether and in what sense the west German wage structure has been ?rigid? in the 1990s. To test the hypothesis that a rigid wage structure has been responsible for rising low-skilled unemployment, I propose a methodology which makes less restrictive identifying...
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. The endogeneity problem is treated with the method of identification through heteroskedasticity as described by Rigobon …
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Hungarian data. I compare two identification approaches. One of them involves the ‘sign restrictions on impulse responses … history. My argument is that in certain cases, especially in the case of the Hungarian economy, the latter identification … identification approaches produced very similar results, imposing restrictions on history may help to dampen counterintuitive …
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Traditional ways of analyzing the effects of monetary policy shocks via structural vector autoregressions require the use of unrealistic identifying assumptions: they either do not allow for a response of output and prices on impact of the shock, or they exclude contemporaneous values of these...
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