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The decline in volatility of US Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth is a well-known stylized fact of post WWII macroeconomic data. Economists call this observation the Great Moderation. This article contributes to the discussion whether the drop in GDP volatility was a one-time break or a trend...
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We apply Range Unit Root (RUR) tests to Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) unemployment rates and compare the results to conventional tests. By simulations, we find that unemployment is represented adequately by a new nonlinear transformation of a serially correlated...
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