Aufbauend auf einem klassischen Finanzmarktmodell behandeln wir drei Modellvarianten, die jeweils einen anderen Ansatz der (heterogenen) Erwartungsbildung von Investoren über künftige Wertpapierpreise in den Vordergrund der Betrachtungen rücken: das Konzept der konsistenten Erwartungen, das...

This article considers three standard asset pricing models with adaptive agents and stochastic dividends. The models only differ in the parameters to be estimated. We assume that only limited information is used to construct estimators. Therefore, parameters are not estimated consistently. More...

Affine term structure models describe the term structure of interest rates by means of a small number of latent factors. Quasi-unit root behaviour for these latent factors arises from the high degree of serial correlation in interest rate data. In this paper we perform Bayesian parameter...

Using an extensive cross section of U.S. corporate credit default swaps (CDSs), this paper offers an economic understanding of implied loss given default (LGD) and jumps in default risk. We formulate and underpin empirical stylized facts about CDS spreads, which are then reproduced in our affine...

We study dynamic panel data models where the long run outcome for a particular crosssection is affected by a weighted average of the outcomes in the other cross-sections. We show that imposing such a structure implies several cointegrating relationships that are nonlinear in the coefficients to...

Okun's Law postulates an inverse relationship between movements of the unemployment rate and the real gross domestic product (GDP). Initial empirical estimates for US data indicate that a two to three percent GDP growth rate above the natural or average GDP growth rate causes unemployment to...

This article presents an econometric analysis of the maintenance costs for the Austrian railway system. The data contain observations of track maintenance costs from 1998 to 2000. Our analysis identifies the cost driving factors in order to determine estimates of marginal costs, as required by...