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This article is concerned with disequilibrium regime switching model to capture different regimes in the US gasoline …
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The culture of risk is 2000 years old, although the term 'risk' developed much later. The culture of merchants making decisions under uncertainty and taking the individual responsibility for the uncertain future started with the Roman 'Aleatory Society', continued with medieval sea merchants,...
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This paper deals with instability in regression coefficients. We propose a Bayesian regression model with time …-varying coefficients (TVC) that allows to jointly estimate the degree of instability and the time-path of the coefficients. Thanks to the … compare favorably to those of other methods commonly employed to deal with parameter instability. A distinguishing feature of …
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Structuralist and post-Keynesian models differ in their assumptions about firms' investment behavior and pricing/output decisions. This paper compares three benchmark models: Kaleckian, Robinsonian and Kaldorian. We analyze the implications of these models for the steady growth path and the...
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We study a model in which two players with opposing interests try to alter a status quo through instability …-generating actions. We show that instability can be used to secure longer-term durable changes, even if it is costly to generate and does … not generate short-term gains. In equilibrium, instability generated by a player decreases when the status quo favors them …
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Keynes' mathematical Treatise addresses what some call "radical uncertainty", which he thought endemic in world affairs and whose appreciation underpinned much of his later work. In contrast, the mainstream view in economics, as elsewhere, has been that even if radical uncertainty exists, either...
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Our contribution attempts to review basic vocational education programmes in Spain over the past 25 years. We intend to compare the evolution of these programmes in terms of conception and conditions of delivery in order to find out how different they are as skill-formation and remedial systems,...
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Climate change is now affecting agriculture and food production in every country of the world. Here the authors present the IMPACT model results on yield, production, and net trade of major crops in China, and on daily calorie availability as an overall indicator of food security under climate...
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In January 2014, the European Commission proposed a framework for its climate and energy policy up to 2030. It includes …, exports, and employment. The German federal government should continue its commitment to an ambitious European policy to …
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that fix exchange rates and those that target inflation. Inflation targeting is a more durable policy; no country has yet … monetary regimes for comparable countries. Regime duration also matters in monetary policy; older regimes are typically more …
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