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switch from exchange rate to inflation targeting and adoption of a policy rule for the use of petroleum revenues. We find … that the long-run means of CPI and core inflation rates declined significantly until the mid-1990s and have since then … remained close to the inflation target of 2.5% from 2001 onwards. The persistence in especially CPI inflation has fallen during …
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Im Zentrum dieser Dissertation steht das Beschreiben und Erklären von Konjunkturdynamiken. Motiviert durch den außerordentlich starken wirtschaftlichen Einbruch in 2008/2009 betont die Arbeit dabei die Wichtigkeit der Nutzung von nichtlinearen Modellansätzen. Die Dissertation kann als Beitrag...
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Inflation (PCCI), a measure of underlying inflation in the euro area. The PCCI reflects the view that underlying inflation … component of inflation. Methodologically, it relies on a generalised dynamic factor model estimated on a large set of … disaggregated HICP inflation rates for 12 euro area countries. For each individual inflation rate, we estimate a low …
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The research work presented below addresses the possible concern of central bank independence through the development and application of econometric models. The complexity of the modelling has allowed a step further in corroborating that financial independence is not only linked to the...
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We construct a slope factor from changes in federal funds futures of different horizons. Slope predicts stock returns at the weekly frequency: faster monetary policy easing positively predicts excess returns. Investors can achieve increases in weekly Sharpe ratios of 20% conditioning on the...
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This paper investigates multivariate Beveridge-Nelson decomposition of key macro aggregate data. We find (a) inflation …
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We propose a multivariate simultaneous unobserved components framework to determine the two-sided interactions between structural trend and cycle innovations. We relax the standard assumption in unobserved components models that trends are only driven by permanent shocks and cycles are only...
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This paper elaborates on the alternative measure of persistence recently suggested in Marques (2004), which is based on the idea of mean reversion. A formal distinction between the "unconditional probability of a given process not crossing its mean in period t" and its estimator, is made clear...
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In this paper the long-run trend in RPI inflation (core inflation) for the UK over the 1961-1997 period is estimated …). In this context core inflation is directly linked to money and wage growth and interpreted as the long-run forecast of … inflation from a small-scale, cointegrated macroeconomic system …
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