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The optimal inflation rate and firm-level productivity growth

Weber, Henning - 2012

Empirical data show that firms tend to improve their ranking in the productivity distribution over time. A stickyprice model with firm-level productivity growth fits this data and predicts that the optimal long-run inflation rate is positive and between 1.5% and 2% per year. In contrast, the...

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A continuous labour supply model in microsimulation: A life-cycle modelling approach with heterogeneity and uncertainty extension

Li, Jinjing; Sologon, Denisa Maria - 2011

This paper advances a structural inter-temporal model of labour supply that is able to simulate the dynamics of labour supply in a continuous setting and to circumvent two main drawbacks of most of the existing models. The first limitation is the inability to incorporate individual heterogeneity...

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Heterogeneous firms, trade, and economic policy: Insights from a simple two-sector model

Pflüger, Michael; Russek, Stephan - 2011

consumers has inspired the development of a new brand of trade theory, the theory of heterogeneous firms and trade. The …

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Securitization and moral hazard: Evidence from a lender cutoff rule

Bubb, Ryan; Kaufman, Alex - 2009

Credit score cutoff rules result in very similar potential borrowers being treated differently by mortgage lenders … perapplicant fixed costs in screening. We then demonstrate that our theory fits the data better than the main alternative theory … already in the literature, which supposes cutoff rules are exogenously used by securitizers. Furthermore, we use our theory to …

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Securitization and moral hazard: Evidence from credit score cutoff rules

Bubb, Ryan; Kaufman, Alex - 2011

Mortgage originators use credit score cutoff rules to determine how carefully to screen loan applicants. Recent … research has hypothesized that these cutoff rules result from a securitization rule of thumb. Under this theory, an observed … adopted credit score cutoff rules in response to underwriting guidelines from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and offer a simple …

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Conflict games with payoff uncertainty

Baliga, Sandeep; Sjostrom, Tomas - 2009

Stag hunt and chicken games are canonical representations of two kinds of strategic interactions. In stag hunt, aggression feeds on itself, and mutual fear escalates into conflict. Chicken is a model of preemption and deterrence. With complete information, these games have multiple Nash...

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Who said large banks don't experience scale economies? Evidence from a risk-return-driven cost function

Hughes, Joseph J.; Mester, Loretta - 2011

Earlier studies found little evidence of scale economies at large banks; later studies using data from the 1990s uncovered such evidence, providing a rationale for very large banks seen worldwide. Using more recent data, we estimate scale economies using two production models. The standard...

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A relationship between risk and time preferences

Saito, Kota - 2009

This paper investigates a general relationship between risk and time preferences. I consider a decision maker who chooses between consumption of a particular prize in one period and a different prize in another period. The individual believes that today's good is certain, and that, as the...

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Inference for systems of stochastic differential equations from discretely sampled data: A numerical maximum likelihood approach

Lux, Thomas - 2012

Maximum likelihood estimation of discretely observed diffusion processes is mostly hampered by the lack of a closed form solution of the transient density. It has recently been argued that a most generic remedy to this problem is the numerical solution of the pertinent Fokker-Planck (FP) or...

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Empirical evaluation of asset pricing models: Arbitrage and pricing errors over contingent claims

Wang, Zhenyu; Zhang, Xiaoyan - 2006

Hansen and Jagannathan (1997) have developed two measures of pricing errors for asset pricing models: the maximum pricing error in all static portfolios of the test assets and the maximum pricing error in all contingent claims of the assets. In this paper, we develop simulation-based Bayesian...

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