We test for the short-run and long-run relationships between the Connecticut real gross state product and the U.S. real gross domestic product using quarterly data and a number of different statistical approaches. Quarterly observations on Connecticut real gross state product are not generally...

Some researchers, for example, Koop [1], and Sims [2], have advocated for Bayesian alternatives to unit-root testing over the classical approach using the augmented Dickey-Fuller test (ADF). This paper studies the power of what Koop [1] has called the Objective" Bayesian approach to unit-root...

This article estimates the aggregate demand for private health insurance coverage in the United States using an error correction model for the period 1966-1999. Both short- and long-run price and income elasticities of demand are estimated. The empirical findings indicate that both private...

This paper examines the mean-reverting property of real exchange rates. Earlier studies have generally not been able to reject the null hypothesis of a unit-root in real exchange rates, especially for the post-Bretton Woods floating period. The results imply that long-run purchasing power parity...

This paper examines empirically two facets of labor force participation dynamics that imply quite different interpretations of labor market fluctuations. The first, which underlies equilibrium business cycle models, is that workers time their participation to coincide with periods of high real...

Book Review of Regina Kaiser and Agustin Maravell, Measuring Business Cycles in Economic Time Series, Springer Verlag, 2000, pp. 190, $59.95 (Paperback), ISBN: 0387951121