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Inventories and price changes are correlated. The inverse relation is most obvious in housing where inventories build in low demand markets and shrink in high demand markets. This is a puzzle. Symmetry of information among buyers and sellers would seem to imply that sellers would change their...
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inconsistent with classical utility theory. Similarly, we find that the hedonic value that a swimming pool and that central air add …
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evidence that the forecast of the Markov model are superior at predicting the direction of change of the exchange rate …
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We investigate the properties of exchange rate forecasts with a data set encompassing a broad cross section of currencies. The key finding is that expectations appear to be biased in our sample. This result is robust to the possibility of random measurement error in the survey measures....
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forecasting the course of the U. S.economy (mostly economists, analysts, and executives from the world of corporate business and …
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Some previous analyses have suggested that the smoothing of tax rates over time would be a desirable guide for public debt management. One implication of this viewpoint is that future changes in tax rates would be unpredictable based on current information. This proposition is tested by...
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generated: 1) from time series of past inflation rates;2) by forecasting real rates from time series of past real rates and …
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unemployment rate Phillips curve, which is examined in a simulated out of sample forecasting framework. Inflation forecasts …
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We review the literature on return and cash flow growth predictability form the perspective of the present-value identity. We focus predominantly on recent work. Our emphasis is on U.S. aggregate stock return predictability, but we also discuss evidence from other asset classes and countries
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forecast. In a stylized data generating process, we show that such forecasts can be effective even if there is essentially no … rates against 17 OECD countries. We forecast using factors, and using factors combined with any of fundamentals suggested by … improve on the forecast of a "no change" benchmark in the late (1999-2007) but not early (1987-1998) parts of our sample …
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