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We propose a technique to avoid spurious detections of jumps in highfrequencydata via an explicit thresholding on available test statistics. Weprove that it eliminates asymptotically all spurious detections. MonteCarlo results show that it performs also well in finite samples. In DowJones...
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information. Over time, agents are privatelyinformed by bids and offers. Investors are segmented into groups that differ … withrespect to characteristics determining information quality, including initial infor-mation precision as well as market … “connectivity,” the expected frequency of theirtrading opportunities. Investors with superior information sources attain …
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We use a user-cost model to study how dispersed information among housing marketparticipants a¤ects the equilibrium … speculate onprice changes. Information dispersion leads agents to have heterogeneous expectationsabout housing demand and prices …
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reflect contemporaneous information about bank riskin the United States and in Europe.2 In our study, we firstexamine the …
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informationabout these assets. Even worse, much of the information that isprovided is partial, inconsistent, and confusing, leading … financial information insist upon improvements tocorporate reporting. …
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[...]This article describes a method by which we may moreaccurately predict regional economic activity. Specifically, wedevelop an index of leading economic indicators (LEI) forNew York State and for New Jersey over the 1972-99 period.We extend our earlier work (Orr, Rich, and Rosen 1999),...
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[...]With fiscal affairs apparently in order—at least in the shortrun—and with some perspective on the past twenty-five years’economic performance, we are in a position to ask how well thebudget process has worked to produce a coherent andresponsive fiscal policy, particularly given the...
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bankingindustry. This goal is served by taking a broad view of thepayments business and analyzing information provided bylarge bank … now furnish material onsources of noninterest income and the amounts earned thatis much more detailed than the information … filed in regularreports to supervisors. This information is used to estimatethe size of the payments area.[...] …
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length of time between bank examinations affects thequality of information available to supervisors. For thesepurposes, we … define the quality of information in terms ofhow accurately the information from a prior examinationreflects the current … condition of a bank. Our analysisassumes that examination information incorporates twotypes of data: information available from …
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achievement levels to labor marketrequirements—the kind of information that can comethrough academic standards and assessments …. Without this information, parents are unable to assess accuratelythe quality of their children’s education.[...] …
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