The unemployment rate in Australia is modelled as an assymmetric and non-linear function of aggregate demand, productivity, real wages and unemployment benefits. Negative changes in aggregate demand cause the unemployment rate to rise rapidly, while real wage rigidity contributes its to slow...

Macroeconomic practitioners frequently work with multivariate time series models such as VARs, factor augmented VARs as well as time-varying parameter versions of these models (including variants with multivariate stochastic volatility). These models have a large number of parameters and, thus,...

Numerical simulation methods can overcome the difficulties and limitations of analytical methods, when analyzing dynamic properties of econometric models.

It is known that a program loaded into the User Program Area can load, via SVC 202, only programs to be allocated in the Transient Program Area and not programs to be allocated in the same User Program Area. To allow any program to use also this second type function, a procedure is proposed in...

This paper develops a new methodology for identifying the structure of VARMA time series models. The analysis proceeds by examining the echelon canonical form and presents a fully automatic data driven approach to model specification using a new technique to determine the Kronecker invariants. A...

This is a guide that explains how to use software that implements the simulated nonparametric moments (SNM) estimator proposed by Creel and Kristensen (2009). The guide shows how results of that paper may easily be replicated, and explains how to install and use the software for estimation of...

E-commerce systems became a standard interface between sellers (or suppliers) and customers. One of basic condition of an e-commerce system to be efficient is correct definitions and describes of the all internal and external processes. All is targeted the customers´ needs and requirements. The...

The main purpose of this data base is to offer the researcher a supply of information which can be analyzed, revised and updated in a repetitive way. This can be accomplished by an interactive approach. It is possible to use data from the central file (official data) and from a private single...

Bilateral import prices are assumed to be the main explanatory variables in an import allocation model. Since official statistics are not available, the construction of these indices has been undertaken, using the data on bilateral trade by commodities supplied by OECD. Data are stored in 126...

The stochastic simulation of an econometric model is an application of Monte Carlo methods. Deterministic simulation is performed setting error terms to zero. Stochastic simulation, on the contrary, takes into account the disturbance terms, solving the model after adding a vector of...