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2005
- 483 The Valuation Of American Exchange Options Under
by Gerald H. L. Cheang & Carl Chiarella & Andrew Ziogas
- 478 Monetary Policy under Uncertainty in Micro-Founded Macroeconometric Models
by Noah Williams & Andrew Levin & Alexei Onatski
- 476 Optimal Fiscal and Monetary Policy In A Medium Scale Macro Model
by Martin Uribe & Stephanie Schmitt-Grohe
- 474 Term Structure Estimation with Survey Data on Interest Rate Forecasts
by Athanasios Orphanides & Don H. Kim
- 472 Numerical Analysis of Asymmetric First Price Auctions
by Wayne-Roy Gayle
- 471 Wavelet Optimized Finite-Difference Approach to Solve Jump-Diffusion type Partial Differential Equation for Option Pricing
by Mohammad R. Rahman & Ruppa K. Thulasiram & Parimala Thulasiraman
- 469 Automated detection and explanation of exceptional values in a datamining environment
by Hennie Daniels & Emiel Caron
- 468 Information Visualization Of An Agent-Based Financial System Model
by Wei Jiang & Richard Webber & Ric D Herbert
- 466 Fundamental Uncertainties and Firm-level Stock Volatilities
by Yang Yu
- 465 The Curse of Dimensionality in Solving, Estimating and Comparing Non-Linear Rational Expectation Models
by Viktor Winschel
- 462 Making a match: combining theory and evidence in policy-oriented macroeconomic modelling
by Alasdair Scott & George Kapetanios & Adrian Pagan
- 460 Dynamic Limited Dependent Variable Modeling and US Monetary Policy
by George Monokroussos
- 459 Measuring Inflation Persistence: A Structural Time Series Approach
by Maarten Dossche & Gerdie Everaert
- 457 Gains from International Monetary Policy Coordination: Does It Pay to Be Different?
by Evi Pappa & Zheng Liu
- 456 Sychronization and Staggering in a Model of State-Dependent Pricing
by Alexander L. Wolman & A. Andrew John
- 455 The Mundell-Fleming-Dornbusch Model in a New Bottle
by Anthony Landry
- 454 Limited Participation, Income Distribution and Capital Account Liberalization
by Eva de Francisco
- 453 Dynamic Politico-economic Equilibrium: Aggregation, First-order Conditions, and Computation
by Per Krusell & Marina Azzimonti & Eva de Francisco
- 452 Optimal Interest Rate Rules, Asset Prices and Credit Frictions
by Tommaso Monacelli & Ester Faia
- 451 Testing for Stationarity and Cointegration in an Unobserved Components Framework
by James Morley & Tara M. Sinclair
- 450 The Effects of EU Shocks on the Macrovariables of the Newly Acceded Countries -A Sign Restriction Approach
by Alina Barnett
- 449 Option pricing with sparse grids
by Thomas Mertens
- 448 Interbank market under the currency board: Case of Lithuania
by Marius Jurgilas
- 446 Solving RE models for dummies
by Patrick Fève & Fabrice Collard
- 445 User-Friendly Parallel Computations with Econometric Examples
by Michael Creel
- 438 Multi-core CPUs, Clusters and Grid Computing: a Tutorial
by William L. Goffe & Michael Creel
- 437 Robustifying Learnability
by Peter von zur Muehlen & Robert J. Tetlow
- 434 Margins and Transaction Taxes in an Artificial Speculative Futures Market
by Leanne J. Ussher
- 431 DSGE Models in a Data-Rich Environment
by Marc P. Giannoni & Jean Boivin
- 430 An Evolutionary Analysis of Investment in Electricity Markets
by Manuel L. Costa & Fernando S. Oliveira
- 429 A Rational Expectations Model of Optimal Inflation Inertia
by Michael Kumhof & Douglas Laxton
- 427 Simple Pricing Rules, the Phillips Curve and the Microfoundations of Inflation Persistence
by Richard Mash
- 423 Education and Self-Employment: Relationships between Earnings and Wealth Inequality
by Yaz Terajima
- 422 Optimal cheating in monetary policy with individual evolutionary learning
by Jasmina Arifovic & Olena Kostyshyna
- 421 Predatory Governance
by Dalida Kadyrzhanova
- 419 International Capital Flows in a World of Greater Financial Integration
by Viktoria Hnatkovska & Martin Evans
- 416 Information Flows and Aggregate Persistence
by Oleksiy Kryvtsov
- 415 Housing, Personal Bankruptcy, Entrepreneurship
by Yaz Terajima & Cesaire Meh
- 414 A Fully-Rational Liquidity-Based Theory of IPO Underpricing and Underperformance
by Matt Pritsker
- 412 A Computational Approach to Proving Uniqueness in Dynamic Games
by Karl Schmedders & Ken Judd
- 411 Computation of Moral-Hazard Problems
by Kenneth L. Judd & Che-Lin Su
- 410 Estimating Strategic Complementarities in Credit Union’s Outsourcing Decisions
by Andrew Cohen & Ron Borzekowski
- 409 High Frequency Multiplicative Component Garch
by Magdalena E. Sokalska & Ananda Chanda & Robert F. Engle
- 408 Portfolio Choice and Permanent Income
by Stanley Zin & Thomas Tallarini
- 407 The Behavior of Banks under the Deposit Insurance and Capital Requirements
by Xiaozhong Liang
- 405 On the Benefits of Exchange Rate Flexibility under Endogenous Tradedness of Goods
by Kanda Naknoi & Michael Kumhof & Douglas Laxton
- 404 Estimating the Deep Parameters of RBC Model with Learning
by Stefano Eusepi & Stefania D'Amico
- 402 Uncertainty about the Persistence of Periods with Large Price Shocks and the Optimal Reaction of the Monetary Authority
by Gonzalez F. & Rodriguez A. & Gonzalez-Garcia J.R.
- 401 Tax Policies, Vintage Capital, and Entry and Exit of Plants
by Dennis W. Jansen & Shao-Jung Chang
- 400 Robust Monetary Policy with Imperfect Knowledge
by John C Williams & Athanasios Orphanides
- 397 Option Pricing and the Implied Tail Index with the Generalized Extreme Value (GEV) Distribution
by Sheri Markose & Amadeo Alentorn
- 396 Designing large value payment systems: an agent based approach
by Jing Yang & Sheri Markose & Amadeo Alentorn
- 394 Numerical investigation on bottom-up fluctuation of investment
by Yuya Sasaki & Makoto Nirei
- 393 On-the-Job Search and Wage Rigidity in a General Equilibrium Model
by Robert M. Hussey
- 391 A Malliavin-based Monte-Carlo Approach for Numerical Solution of Stochastic Control Problems: Experiences from Merton's Problem
by Simon Lysbjerg Hansen
- 390 Bond Yield Predictability and Estimation of Affine Term Structure Models
by Bovorn Vichiansin
- 389 Noisy Earnings Reports and the Equity Premium
by Gorkem Ozer & Paul Beaumont
- 388 The Design of Monetary and Fiscal Policy: A Global Perspective
by Stefano Eusepi & Jess Benhabib
- 387 Shifting Expectations about Technology Growth as a Propagation Mechanism
by Masashi Saito
- 385 Worst-case estimation and asymptotic theory for models with unobservables
by Jose M. Vidal-Sanz & Mercedes Esteban-Bravo
- 384 The Long and the Short of It: Long Memory Regressors and Predictive Regressions
by Aaron Smallwood; Alex Maynard; Mark Wohar
- 382 Information In Data Revision Processes: Payroll Employment And Real-Time Measurement Of Employment
by Peter Zadrozny & Ellis Tallman
- 381 A decomposition method to deflate the curse of dimensionality for dynamic stochastic models
by Mercedes Esteban-Bravo & F. Javier Nogales
- 380 A Threshold Model of Monetary Policy
by Michael D. Bradley & Dennis W. Jansen
- 379 The Determinants of Market Frictions in the Corporate Market
by Egon Zakrajsek & Andrew Levin & Roberto Perli
- 378 Testing Substitution Bias of the Solow-Residual Measure of Total Factor Productivity Using CES-Class Production Functions
by Peter A. Zadrozny & Baoline Chen
- 377 Do Terms of Trade Shocks Drive Business Cycles? Some Evidence from Structural Estimation
by Thomas Lubik & Wing Leong Teo
- 376 Testing for Structural Breaks in Covariance: Exchange Rate Pass-Through in Canada
by Maral Kichian & Lynda Khalaf
- 375 Price and Wealth Dynamics in a Speculative Market with an Arbitrary Number of Generic Technical Trading Strategies
by Giulio Bottazzi & Mikhail Anufriev
- 374 The Value of Knowledge Flows: Evidence from Patent Citations Data
by Yi Deng
- 373 The Temptation of Emergence or: Don't Rush into Economic(al) Explanations
by Norman Ehrentreich
- 372 The Impact of Housing Decisons on Business Cycles
by Steve Ambler & Emanuela Cardia & Christian Zimmermann
- 371 Testing Near-Rationality Using Detail Survey Data
by Stefan Palmqvist & Michael F. Bryan
- 370 Price setting in General Equilibrium: Alternative Specifications
by de Walque, G. & Smets, F. & Wouters, R.
- 369 Optimal Inflation Persistence: Ramsey Taxation with Capital and Habits
by Sanjay K. Chugh
- 367 Stochastic Volatility in DSGE models
by Giorgio Primiceri & Alejandro Justiniano
- 366 Capital Accumulation in the Presence of Informal Credit Contract: Does Incentive Mechanism Work Better than Credit Rationing Under Asymmetric Information?
by basab dasgupta
- 364 Taxes and quotas for a Stock Pollutant with Multiplicative Uncertainty: A Comment
by Fidel Gonzalez
- 363 TIPS: Taking Inflation Premium Seriously
by Min Wei & Stefania D'Amico & Don H. Kim
- 362 Monetary Policy, Determinacy, and Learnability in the Open Economy
by Eric Schaling & James Bullard
- 360 Consumption, Growth and Asset Pricing: A Regime Switching and Robust Control
by Sel Dibooglu & Turalay Kenc
- 359 Cross Equation Effects of Misspecification: A partial estimation approach to DSGE Models
by Kai Christoffel
- 358 On the Distributional Effects of Trade Policy: A Macroeconomic Perspective
by Luis San Vicente Portes
- 357 Structural Breaks in Estimated DSGE Models with Indeterminacy
by Siddhartha Chib & Michael Dueker & Anatoliy Belaygorod
- 356 Financial Frictions, Distribution Costs, and Current Account Crises
by Sylvain Leduc & Diego Valderrama
- 355 Operational risk management and new computational needs in banks
by Duc PHAM-HI
- 354 Co-evolution of bounded rational agents in adaptive social networks
by Lugo, H. & Dalmagro & F. Jiménez J.
- 351 Agency Conflicts, Investment, and Asset Pricing
by Neng Wang & Rui Albuquerque
- 349 Debt stabilizing fiscal rules
by Philippe Michel & Leopold von Thadden & Jean-Piere Vidal
- 348 Paper or Plastic? The Effect of Time on Check and Debit Card Use at Grocery Stores
by Elizabeth Klee
- 347 An Integrated Approach For Stock Price Forecasting
by Alvaro Veiga & Gustavo Santos Raposo
- 346 Exponential Multivariate Autoregressive Conditional High Frequency Data Model
by Alvaro Veiga & Gustavo Santos Raposo
- 345 Persistence, Propagation and On-the-Job Search
by Michael Krause & Thomas A. Lubik
- 344 Estimating the potential output of the euro area with a semi-structural multivariate Hodrick-Prescott filter
by Matthieu LEMOINE & Odile CHAGNY
- 343 A Re-Examination of the Determinants of Economic Growth Using Simultaneous Equation Dynamic Panel Data Models
by Susanne Broeck & Michael Binder
- 341 Using a Nonlinear Filter to Estimate a Multifactor Term Structure Model with Gaussian Mixture Innovations
by Wolfgang Lemke
- 340 Optimal Monetary Policy in a Two Sector with Different Degree of Price and Wage Stickiness
by Massimiliano Marzo & Thomas A. Lubik
- 339 Black-White Labour Market Conditions and Property Crime in the US: A Quantitative Analysis
by Marco Cozzi
- 338 Using economic and financial information for active asset allocation decisions: A comparison of alternative approaches
by M. Gilli & I. Roko
- 337 Are We There Yet? Looking for the New Economy
by Simon van Norden
- 336 Solving for the Global Nonlinear Saddlepath: Reverse Shooting vs. Approximation Methods
by Manoj Atolia & Edward F. Buffie
- 334 Agent-based simulation of power exchange with heterogeneous production companies
by Silvano Cincotti & Eric Guerci
- 333 Volatility and realized quadratic variation of differenced returns
by Esben Hoeg
- 329 Return Predictability and the Implied Intertemporal Hedging Demands for Stocks and Bonds: International Evidence
by Mark E. Wohar & David E. Rapach
- 328 Endogenous Tax Evasion and Reserve Requirements: A Comparative Study in the Context of European Economies
by Rangan Gupta
- 324 Optimal Unemployment Insurance in a Search Model with Variable Human Capital
by Andreas Pollak
- 323 Do Actions Speak Louder Than Words?The Response of Asset Prices to Monetary Policy Actions and Statements
by Refet Gürkaynak & Brian Sack
- 322 Firms’ Network Formation Through The Transmission Of Heterogeneous Knowledge
by Rainer Andergassen & Franco Nardini
- 321 A Limited Information Approach to the Simultaneous Estimation of Wage and Price Dynamics
by Argia M. Sbordone
- 320 A dynamic model of a monetary production economy under the disequilibrium economics approach
by Marco Raberto & Andrea Teglio
- 319 Bootstrap inference on a nonlinear time series model of advertising effects
by Miguel A. Arranz
- 318 An Estimated DSGE Model for The German Economy
by Ernest Pytlarczyk
- 317 Estimating an Open Economy SDGE Model for the Euro Area
by Andreas Beyer & Ricardo Mestre
- 314 Monetary Policy in an Estimated DSGE Model with a Financial Accelerator
by Ali Dib & Ian Christensen
- 313 Monetary Policy Shifts, Indeterminacy and Inflation Dynamics
by Paolo Surico
- 309 Did the Tail Wag the Dog? Fiscal Policy and the Federal Reserve during the Great Inflation
by Thomas A. Lubik
- 307 Assessing the Value of On-line Information Using a Two-sided Equilibrium Search Model in the Real Estate Market
by Paul E. Carrillo
- 306 Bayesian Estimation of a DSGE Model with Financial Frictions for the U.S. and the Euro Area
by Virginia Queijo
- 304 Accounting for Changes in the Homeownership Rate
by Matthew Chambers & Carlos Garriga
- 299 The Emergence of Local Norms in Networks
by Mary Burke & Gary Fournier
- 298 A Two Sector Small Open Economy Model. Which Inflation to Target?
by Nooman Rebei & Eva Ortega
- 296 Investigating the effect of changes in Signals, Noise and Agent Types in Cascade Models
by Debra Smarkusky & Margo Bergman
- 295 Estimating the Intensity of Choice in a Dynamic Mutual Fund Allocation Decision
by David Goldbaum & Bruce Mizrach
- 293 The Fed and the Stock Market
by Paolo Surico & Antonello D'Agostino & Luca Sala
- 291 Investment-Specific Technical Change and the Production of Ideas
by Roberto M Samaniego
- 290 Financial markets with heterogeneous agents as nonlinear news filters
by Cees Diks
- 289 Specification and the Technology-Hours Debate: What Can We learn from Bayesian VARSs?
by Florian Pelgrin & Paul Corrigan
- 287 Production, Capital Stock and Price Dynamics in Simple Model of Closed Economy
by Kodera J. & Vosvrda M.
- 286 LESSONS ABOUT GROWTH, CONVERGENCE AND TRADE FROM ANALYTICAL AND NUMERICAL SOLUTIONS OF A 2x2 OVERLAPPING GENERATIONS MODEL FOR A GROWING-POPULATION ECONOMY
by Serdar Sayan & Mehdi Jelassi
- 285 Multiscale Representation of Agents Heterogeneous Beliefs in Analysis of CAC40 Prices with Frequency Decomposition
by Serge Hayward
- 284 An Analysis on Simulation Models of Competing Parties
by Jie-Shin Lin
- 283 SOCIODYNAMICA: An agent based computer simulation studying the interacting web of biological, social and economic behaviors
by Klaus Jaffe
- 282 Time Consistent Control in Non-Linear Models
by Steven Ambler & Florian Pelgrin
- 279 Test for serial independence based on quadratic forms
by Cees Diks & Valentyn Panchenko
- 277 Social Networks in Labor Markets: The Effects of Symmetry, Randomness and Exclusion on Output and Inequality
by Andrea Mario Lavezzi & Nicola Meccheri
- 275 On the Effects of Redistribution on Growth and Entrepreneurial Risk-Taking
by Maik Heinemann & Christiane Clemens
- 274 Real-time data for Norway: Output gap revisions and challenges for monetary policy
by Tom Bernhardsen & ØYvind Eitrheim
- 273 Stock returns and economic activity; evidence from wavelet analysis
by Marco Gallegati
- 272 The accuracy of welfare computations
by Michel Juillard
- 271 Computing optimal policy functions in a timeless perspective: An application
by Florian Pelgrin & Michel Juillard
- 270 Forecasting Aggregates by Disaggregates
by Kirstin Hubrich & David F. Hendry
- 268 The Role of Group Size and Competition in Minimum Effort Coordination Games. An Agent Based Approach
by Thomas Riechmann
- 267 Mean Variance Optimization of Forward Looking Systems and Worst-case Analysis
by Volker Wieland & Berc Rustem & Stanislav Zakovic
- 266 Employment, New Equipment, Skill, and Growth
by BOUZAHZAH Mohammed & ESMAEILI Hamid
- 264 HRM and Value Creation
by Michel PHILIP & Patrick Micheletti
- 263 Expectation Formation and Endogenous Fluctuations in Aggregate Demand
by Maciej K. Dudek
- 262 Learning in a Misspecified VAR Model
by Eran A. Guse
- 260 Estimating Sticky Information Phillips Curve: International Evidence from the Consensus Survey of Forecasters
by Jiri Slacalek & Jörg Döpke & Ulrich Fritsche
- 259 Investment Decisions Under Model Uncertainty: An Application Using Exchanger Rate and Interest Rate Forecasts
by Kevin Lee & Anthony Garratt
- 258 Common Trends and Common Cycles in Latin America: A 2-step vs an Iterative Approach
by Alain W. HECQ
- 257 Emergence in multi-agent systems:Cognitive hierarchy, detection, and complexity reduction
by Jean Louis Dessalles & Denis Phan
- 254 Multi-Step Perturbation Solution of Nonlinear Rational Expectations Models
by Baoline Chen & Peter A. Zadrozny
- 253 UK Real-time Macro Data Characteristics
by Shaun Vahey & Tony Garratt
- 252 Trend and Cycles: A New Approach and Explanations of Some Old Puzzles
by Tatsuma Wada & Pierre Perron
- 251 Demand Uncertainty and employment : A cross-country empirical examination
by J-F Piferini
- 250 Do so-called multivariate filters have better revision properties? An empirical analysis
by L Christopher Plantier & Ozer Karagedikli
- 249 An Interpretation of Fluctuating Macro Policies
by Eric Leeper & Troy Davig
- 247 When do open economy rules perform badly? Identifying fault tolerant monetary policy
by Kirdan Lees
- 246 What do robust policies look like for open economy inflation targeters?
by Kirdan Lees
- 245 Value versus price of an asset: is an expected utility representation possible?
by Haven E
- 244 Heterogeneity, Profitability and Autocorrelations
by Youwei Li & Xue-Zhong (Tony) He
- 243 Analytical solutions to the generalized Black-Scholes PDE with the help of an adiabatic approximation to the Schrödinger PDE
by Haven & Emmanuel
- 241 Bayesian Sampling Algorithms for the Sample Selection and Two-Part Models
by Martijn van Hasselt
- 240 Learning and Endogenous Business Cycles in a Standard Growth Model
by Laurent Cellarier
- 239 The Kalman Foundations of Adaptive Least Squares: Applications to Unemployment and Inflation
by J. Huston McCulloch
- 238 General Equilibrium Implications of the Capital Adequacy Regulation for Banks
by Roger Aliaga-Diaz
- 236 Learning-by-Doing, Organizational Forgetting, and Industry Dynanmics
by David Besanko & Ulrich Doraszelski
- 235 Forecasting with the New-Keynesian Model: An Experiment with Canadian Data
by Ali Dib & Kevin Moran
- 234 Study of Nonlinearities in the Dynamics of Exchange Rates: Is There Any Evidence of Chaos?
by Vitaliy Vandrovych
- 233 Dynamic analysis of an institutional conflict within the music industry
by Oleg V. Pavlov
- 231 Mitigating the Tragedy of the Digital Commons: the Case of Unsolicited Commercial Email
by Oleg V. Pavlov & Nigel Melville
- 229 Proprietary Income, Entrepreneurial Risk and the Predictability of U.S. Stock Returns
by Mathias Hoffmann
- 228 Evolution with Individual and Social Learning in an Agent-Based Stock Market
by Ryuichi YAMAMOTO
- 227 Pricing bonds in an incomplete market: Linear and Dynamic Programming approach
by Arnab Sarkar & N. Hemachandra
- 226 Extracting expectations from currency option prices: a comparison of methods
by Marian Micu
- 224 Portfolio Flows, Foreign Direct Investment, Crises
by Merih Uctum & Remzi Uctum
- 223 Neural Networks for Extracting the Asset Price Dynamics Implicit in Market Prices of Stock Index Options
by Ing-Chyuan Wu
- 222 Firm Structure, Search and Environmental Complexity
by Nobuyuki Hanaki & Jason Barr
- 221 Alternative Characterizations of the European Continuous-Installment Option Valuation Problem
by Ilir Roko & Pierangelo Ciurlia
- 220 Optimal Timing of Mark-to-Market for Contingent Credit Risk Control
by Jiali Liao & Theodore V. Theodosopoulos
- 219 Estimating the Interest Rate Rule with Open Market Operations or Lump-Sum Transfers of Money
by Filippo Ochinno & John Landon-Lane
- 217 Speculative Strategies In The Foreign Exchange Market Based On Genetic Programming Predictions
by Marcos Alvarez-Diaz And Alberto à Lvarez
- 216 Option-Pricing in Incomplete Markets: The Hedging Portfolio plus a Risk Premium-Based Recursive Approach
by Alfredo Ibáñez
- 215 Using Copulas to Construct Bivariate Foreign Exchange Distributions with an Application to the Sterling Exchange Rate Index
by Christoph Schleicher & Matthew Hurd & Mark Salmon
- 214 Common Trends and Common Cycles in Canadian Sectoral Output
by Christoph Schleicher & Francisco Barillas
- 213 Environmental Taxation in Energy Sector - A Theoretical and Applied Analysis
by Jian Zhang
- 212 Effects of oil price shocks on German business cycles
by Tobias Zimmermann & Torsten Schmidt
- 211 Keynesian Dynamics and the Wage-Price Spiral:Estimating and Analyzing a Baseline Disequilibrium Approach
by W. Semmler & P. Chen & C. Chiarella
- 210 The Transition Process in China: a Theoretical and Empirical Study
by C. Hsiao & P. Chen
- 207 Bounded Rationality and the Elasticity Puzzle: What Can We Learn from the Agent-Based Computational Consumption Capital Asset Pricing Model?
by Ke-Hung Lai & Shu-Heng Chen & Ya-Chi Huang
- 206 Bubbles, Can We Spot Them? Crashes, Can We Predict Them?
by Gee Kwang Randolph Tan & Xiao Qin
- 205 The Scarring Effect of Recessions
by Min Ouyang
- 203 Forecasting Practice: Decision Support System to Assist Judgmental Forecasting
by Gauresh Rajadhyaksha & Abhijeet Dwivedi
- 202 Estimating the Stochastic Discount Factor without a Utility Function
by Fabio Araujo & Joao Victor Issler
- 199 Asset Pricing and Loss Aversion
by Willi Semmler & Lars Grüne
- 198 Uninsured Idiosyncratic Production Risk With Borrowing Constraints
by Francisco Covas
- 196 The role of contracting schemes for the welfare costs of nominal rigidities
by Matthias Paustian
- 194 Dominant Firms, Barriers to Entry Capital and Entry Dynamics
by Willi Semmler & Mika Kato
- 193 A Numerical Dynamic Programming Algorithm for Optimal Learning Problems
by Volker Wieland