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Comin, Diego; Quintana González, Javier; Schmitz, Tom; …

Desarrollamos un nuevo método de estimación del crecimiento de la productividad total de los factores (PTF) a nivel tanto sectorial como agregado. Nuestro método tiene en cuenta tanto beneficios como costes de ajuste y usa encuestas empresariales para aproximar cambios en la intensidad de la...

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Parametric properties of semi-nonparametric distributions, with applications to option valuation

León, Angel M.; Mencía González, Javier; Sentana, Enrique - 2007

We derive the statistical properties of the SNP densities of Gallant and Nychka (1987). We show that these densities, which are always positive, are more flexible than truncated Gram-Charlier expansions with positivity restrictions. We use the SNP densities for financial derivatives valuation....

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Distributional tests in multivariate dynamic models with normal and student t innovations

Mencía González, Javier; Sentana, Enrique - 2010

corresponding Lagrange Multiplier-type tests into skewness and kurtosis components, from which we obtain more powerful one …

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Leverage and deepening business cycle skewness

Jensen, Henrik; Petrella, Ivan; Ravn, Søren Hove; … - 2017

Documentamos que la economía de Estados Unidos se ha caracterizado por una asimetría del ciclo económico cada vez más negativa durante las últimas tres décadas. Este hallazgo puede explicarse por el aumento del apalancamiento financiero de hogares y empresas. Para mostrar esto, diseñamos...

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Does the added worker effect matter?

Guner, Nezih; Kulikova, Yuliya; Valladares-Esteban, Arnau - 2021

’s. Without the AWE, married women’s employment would be as volatile as men and display negative skewness (declining quickly in …

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Skewed SVARs: tracking the structural sources of macroeconomic tail risks

Montes-Galdón, Carlos; Ortega, Eva

structural shocks (SVAR) that are identified using sign restrictions and whose distribution is subject to time-varying skewness … variation in the skewness of demand, supply and monetary policy shocks between 1999 and 2019. This variation lies behind a …

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Pricing Options on Commodity Futures: The Role of Weather and Storage

Bozic, Marin; Fortenbery, T. Randall - 2011

the period 1995-2009 to estimate the implied skewness parameter separately for each trading day. An economic explanation … is then presented for inter-year variations in implied skewness based on the theory of storage. After controlling for … skewness, as predicted by the theory of storage. Furthermore, intra-year dynamics of implied skewness reflect the fact that …

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14.452 Macroeconomic Theory II, Spring 2005

Blanchard, Olivier - 2005

The basic machines of macroeconomics. Ramsey, Solow, Samuelson-Diamond, RBCs, ISLM, Mundell-Fleming, Fischer-Taylor. How they work, what shortcuts they take, and how they can be used. Half-term subject. From the course home page: Course Description This is the second course in the four-quarter...

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ESSAYS ON THE MACROECONOMICS OF LABOR MARKETS

Stetsenko, Sergiy - 2010

This dissertation consists of two essays studying macroeconomics questions about labor markets. The research in this document is separated into chapters that study distinct features of aggregate labor market outcomes.The first essay documents the change in behavior of fertility rate at business...

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Why Casinos are not Recession Proof: An Business Cycle Econometric Case Study of the Las Vegas Region

Legg, Mark P; Tang, Hugo - 2011

The gaming industry has long been considered recession proof. However, as the gaming industry has expanded it has increased its exposure to the lodging and convention industries. This is evidenced by the fact that the gaming industry is struggling alongside these industries. This study uses the...

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