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Firms' investment decisions in response to demand and price uncertainty

Fuss, Catherine; Vermeulen, Philip - 2004

We estimate the effect of demand and price uncertainty on firms’ investment decisions from a panel of manufacturing firms. Uncertainty measures are derived from firms’ subjective qualitative expectations. They are close to their theoretical counterparts, the variances of future demand and...

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Efficiency and risk in european banking

Fiordelisi, Franco; Marques-Ibanez, David; Molyneux, Phil - 2010

We analyze the impact of efficiency on bank risk. We also consider whether bank capital has an effect on this … relationship. We model the inter-temporal relationships among efficiency, capital and risk for a large sample of commercial banks … supporting the bad management and efficiency version of the moral hazard hypotheses. In contrast, bank efficiency improvements …

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Measuring contagion with a Bayesian, time-varying coefficient model

Ciccarelli, Matteo; Rebucci, Alessandro - 2003

To measure contagion empirically, we propose using a Bayesian time-varying coeﬃcient model estimated with Markov ChainMonte Carlo methods. The proposed measure works in the joint presence of heteroskedasticity and omitted variables and does not require knowledge of the timing of the crisis. It...

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Nelson-Siegel, affine and quadratic yield curve specifications

Nyholm, Ken; Vidova-Koleva, Rositsa - 2010

In this paper we compare the in-sample fit and out-of-sample forecasting performance of no-arbitrage quadratic and essentially affine term structure models, as well as the dynamic Nelson-Siegel model. In total eleven model variants are evaluated, comprising five quadratic, four affine and two...

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In dubio pro CES

León-Ledesma, Miguel A.; McAdam, Peter; Willman, Alpo - 2010

Capital-labor substitution and total factor productivity (TFP) estimates are essential features of growth and income distribution models. In the context of a Monte Carlo exercise embodying balanced and near balanced growth, we demonstrate that the estimation of the substitution elasticity can be...

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Liquidity requirements and payment delays

Schulz, Christian - 2011

The paper presents an analysis of the trade-offs of participants of different type between payment delay and liquidity requirement on the basis of synthetically generated data. The generation of the synthetic transaction data set for a simple RTGS system is described and calibrated using real...

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Industry linkages and transmission shocks in Germany

Marcusson, Mats - 2010

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Capital quality improvement and the sources of growth in the euro area

Sakellaris, Plutarchos; Vijselaar, Focco W. - 2004

Capital quality improvement is a general phenomenon. Therefore quality correction is needed in price indexes. There is substantial evidence of biases in the official price indexes of capital equipment. We apply to euro area statistics estimates of these biases based on US data thus deriving...

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a cross-country efficiency approach

Afonso, António; Aubyn, Miguel St. - 2010

frontier, TFP being the composite effect of efficiency scores and possibility frontier changes. We consider, for the periods …

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Public finances and long-term growth in Europe

De Ávila, Diego Romero; Strauch, Rolf - 2003

In Lisbon the European Council proclaimed a European growth strategy. It considers an average economic u0093growth rate of around 3 percent as a realistic prospect for the coming yearsu0094 and assigns public finances an important role in the process of achieving this goal. This paper addresses...

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