With new technically advanced methods and computers at our disposal, the efficient market hypothesis is once again being debated. At the same time, we are witnessing an unprecedented growth in both existing and new financial markets. These new markets are often in economies which have just...

Stylized facts of the business cycle in the G7 countries are derived using a stochastic trend model, which allows for structural breaks in the underlying series in various ways. The results are compared to those of Backus and Kehoe's paper (1992) which used the Hoderick-Prescott filter. Numerous...

Recent articles have attempted to restore the use of a simple measure of the money supply as an indicator of future price levels, P[star], and to reestablish a causal link from money to prices. In this paper we argue that the P[star] approach is flawed. It is certainly more complex than...

This paper derives a model of the stocks plan based on optimal behavior by the firm when facing adjustment costs with forward-looking expectations formation. Estimates of the model are reported for manufacturing, using three alternative expectations mechanisms for determining expected sales:...

In this paper we examine the causal linkages between the G-7 long-term interest rates by using a new technique, which enables the researcher to analyse relations between a set of I(1) series without imposing any identification conditions based on economic theory. Specifically, we apply the...