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When, how fast and by how much do trade costs change in the Euro area?
Herwartz, Helmut; Weber, Henning - 2008
Microfoundations of the euro's effect on euro area trade hinge on the timing, the speed and the size of adjustment in … at the sector level. We find that, due to falling trade costs, trade within the euro area increases between the years … 2000 and 2003 by 10 to 20 percent compared with trade between European countries that are not members of the euro area …
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Modeling the FIBOR/EURIBOR swap term structure: an empirical approach
Blaskowitz, Oliver J.; Herwartz, Helmut; Cadenas … - 2005
In this study we forecast the term structure of FIBOR/EURIBOR swap rates by means of recursive vector autoregressive (VAR) models. In advance, a principal components analysis (PCA) is adopted to reduce the dimensionality of the term structure. To evaluate ex-ante forecasting performance for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271835
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On economic evaluation of directional forecasts
Blaskowitz, Oliver J.; Herwartz, Helmut - 2009
It is commonly accepted that information is helpful if it can be exploited to improve a decision making process. In economics, decisions are often based on forecasts of up- or downward movements of the variable of interest. We point out that directional forecasts can provide a useful framework...
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