This paper presents a new mechanism through which monetary policy rules affect inflation persistence. When assuming that price reset hazard functions are not constant, backward-looking dynamics emerge in the NKPC. This new mechanism makes the traditional demand channel of monetary transmission...

It is often argued that the New Keynesian Phillips curve is at odds with the data because it cannot explain inflation persistence — the difficulty of returning inflation immediately to target after a shock without any loss of output. This paper explains how a model where newer prices are...

This paper studies the gender wage gap by educational attainment in Italy using the 1994–2001 ECHP data. We estimate wage distributions in the presence of covariates and sample selection separately for highly and low educated men and women. Then, we decompose the gender wage gap across all the...

Let [X] and {X} be the integer and the fractional parts of a random variable X. The conditional distribution function Fn(x)=P({X}≤x|[X]=n) for an integer n is investigated. Fn for a large n is regarded as the distribution of a roundoff error in an extremal event. For most well-known continuous...

Cumulative residual entropy has been proposed by Rao et al. (2004). In this paper, we first show a representation of the cumulative residual entropy of the first r order statistics as a single integral. Then we provide some related results including recurrence relations, identity and...

In this paper we introduce the so-called McDonald Exponentiated Pareto distribution. We provide a number of mathematical properties of this distribution and derive among others expressions for its moment-generating function, the rth moment, and the Renyi entropy. Finally, we present the...

In this paper, a new method is proposed for generating families of continuous distributions. A random variable <InlineEquation ID="IEq1"> <EquationSource Format="TEX">$$X$$</EquationSource> </InlineEquation>, “the transformer”, is used to transform another random variable <InlineEquation ID="IEq2"> <EquationSource Format="TEX">$$T$$</EquationSource> </InlineEquation>, “the transformed”. The resulting family, the <InlineEquation ID="IEq3"> <EquationSource Format="TEX">$$T$$</EquationSource> </InlineEquation>-<InlineEquation ID="IEq4"> <EquationSource Format="TEX">$$X$$</EquationSource> </InlineEquation> family of distributions, has a...</equationsource></inlineequation></equationsource></inlineequation></equationsource></inlineequation></equationsource></inlineequation>

This paper considers a new class of time series models called autoregressive conditional duration (ACD) models. These models have been developed and applied to investigate the price discovery process in the context of financial markets. The various statistical properties of this class of ACD...

In this paper, a class of distributions called the two-parameter weighted exponential distributions is introduced (TWE). This new class of distributions generalizes the ones–weighted exponential distributions (WE)–proposed by Gupta and Kundu (2009). The main properties of this new class of...

The representation of the entropy in terms of the hazard function and its extensions have been studied by many authors including Teitler et al. (IEEE Trans Reliab 35:391–395, <CitationRef CitationID="CR16">1986</CitationRef>). In this paper, we consider a representation of the Kullback–Leibler information of the first <InlineEquation ID="IEq1"> <EquationSource Format="TEX">$$r$$</EquationSource> <EquationSource Format="MATHML"> <math xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"> <mi>r</mi> </math> </EquationSource> </InlineEquation>...</equationsource></equationsource></inlineequation></citationref>