A wide range of empirical studies is applied to various countries in this important collection. Bringing together the most recent work in econometrics applied to international trade, main sections of the book cover: cross-country analysis, which can be used to test assumptions or implications of...

This solutions manual for Intermediate Public Economics (MIT Press, 2006) offers students an opportunity to practice using the analytical tools of public economics at intermediate and more advanced levels. The 424 exercises in the textbook (all of which are covered in the solutions manual) vary...

Stylized facts of empirical assets log-returns include the existence of semi heavy tailed distributions and a non-linear spectrum of Hurst exponents. Empirical data considered are daily prices from 10 large indices from 01/01/1990 to 12/31/2004. We propose a stylized model of price dynamics...

This study conducts an investigation into the extent of cointegration between imports and exports and asymmetries in the adjustment of the US current account over the study period 1960Q4-2007Q2. We find evidence in favour of cointegration through the application of the standard Johansen...

Standard target zone exchange rate models are based on nonlinear functions of an unobserved economic fundamental, which is assumed to be bounded, similarly to the target zone exchange rates themselves. A violation of this key assumption is a basic structural reason for model failure. Using a...

This paper presents the utilization of 31 indicators of the economic and social development of some 45 countries, taken from the World Bank yearly publication “World Development Indicators” (WDI'2002), to create the static econometric model EM'2000, featuring 10 equations, 10 endogenous as...

In this paper, we study the main determinants of foreign investment in Mexico by means of a causality analysis with econometric techniques. We introduce a suitable country risk indicator and test for unit roots in the variables of the model. Moreover, we carry out test of cointegration in vector...

We propose finite sample tests and confidence sets for models with unobserved and generated regressors as well as various models estimated by instrumental variables methods. The validity of the procedures is unaffected by the presence of identification problems or "weak instruments", so no...

Here we assume that the logarithmic asset price is given by a semimartingle. Jacod (2006) has derived an infeasible central limit theorem for the realized variance in such a general framework. However, here we focus on constructing a feasible limit theorem. We propose a new estimator for the...

Dollarization brought economic stability to Ecuador and higher economic growth. The labor market has not reacted accordingly and unemployment rates remain stubbornly around 10%. I use a simple econometric model of the labor market to disentangle the impact on employment of GDP growth, real...