Inflation rates in a number of OECD follow a common trend over the past four decades: inflation starts out low in the 1960s, rises for a time before peaking in the 1970s or early 1980s, and then falls back to initial levels. This similarity in the behavior of trend inflation suggests that any...

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This paper applies recent statistical developments in the study of stock-market price movements to study the plausibility of the constant expected returns version of the present value model as an explanation of farmland prices. Using Iowa farmland price and rent data over the 1921-86 sample...

A popular model for assessing dependence on time is the linear trend plus autoregressive error model. Considerable effort has been devoted toward efficient esitmation of and testing for a linear trend in the presence of serial correlation. However, the testing procedures used in practice do not...

Projecting the Wildlife and Economics Impacts of United States Agricultural Policy Using Landscape-Level Analyses