The present paper analyzes the optimal response of real wages to the installed capital stock in a dynamic monopoly union. We use data from five Southern European countries during the period 1970–2010. We explore how this rent-extraction response changes over time and across countries depending...

This paper explains the contradictory findings from long-run and short-run tests of the rational expectations hypothesis of the term structure. Recent research suggests that, while the long-run tests support the theory, the short-run tests do not. Our results which are based on US Treasury bills...

In this paper we present a new method of approximating the risk neutral density (RND) from option prices based on the C-type Gram-Charlier series expansion (GCSE) of a probability density function. The exponential form of this type of GCSE guarantees that it will always give positive values of...

The asymptotic local power of least squares based fixed-T panel unit root tests allowing for a structural break in their individual effects and/or incidental trends of the AR(1) panel data model is studied. These tests correct the least squares estimator of the autoregressive coefficient of this...

Analytical asymptotic local power functions are employed to study the effects of general form short term serial correlation on �fixed-T panel data unit root tests. Two models are considered, one that has only individual intercepts and one that has both individual intercepts and individual...

In this paper we suggest panel data unit root tests which allow for a structural breaks in the individual effects or linear trends of panel data models. This is done under the assumption that the disturbance terms of the panel are heterogeneous and serially correlated. The limiting distributions...

This paper employs a parametric model of persistent (level) shifts in the conditional mean of stock market returns which are endogenously driven by large positive or negative return shocks. These shocks can be taken to reflect important market announcements, monetary policy regime changes and/or...