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Much empirical research has already been conducted in order to analyze how speculation affects commodity and especially food prices. This paper examines the effects of speculation based on the most recent research. It is time to break with the innumerable studies examining the same material, yet...
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Die Aktienmärkte in Europa und vor allem in den USA melden seit Jahren Rekorde. Skeptiker befürchten jedoch, dass sich diese Hausse als spekulative Blase erweist. Wie ist die derzeitige Entwicklung im historischen Vergleich mit dem Crash von 1929 zu beurteilen? Sind die Kurssteigerungen durch...
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Die internationalen Börsen erleben derzeit einen Crash auf Raten. Gleichzeitig ist die amerikanische Federal Reserve Bank bemüht, mit Zinssenkungen dagegenzuhalten. Wie konnte es zu der Kursblase kommen? Hat die Geldpolitik hier versagt?
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Vor drei Jahren legte der Europäische Rat die ersten Teilnehmerstaaten der Europäischen Währungsunion fest, die am 1. Januar 1999 begann. Haben die maßgeblichen Akteure der Währungsunion ihre Aufgaben und die in sie gesetzten Erwartungen erfüllt? Welche Faktoren beeinflußten den Euro, und...
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We consider time series models in which the conditional mean of the response variable given the past depends on latent covariates. We assume that the covariates can be estimated consistently and use an iterative nonparametric kernel smoothing procedure for estimating the conditional mean...
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This paper employs the unrestricted extended constant conditional correlation GARCH specification proposed in Conrad and Karanasos (2008) to examine the intertemporal relationship between the uncertainties of inflation and output growth in the US. We find that inflation uncertainty effects...
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In this study, we examine how the interaction between monetary policy and macroeconomic conditions affects inflation uncertainty in the long-term. The unobservable inflation uncertainty is quantified by means of the slowly evolving unconditional variance component of inflation in the framework...
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We investigate the relationship between long-term U.S. stock market risks and the macroeconomic environment using a two component GARCH-MIDAS model. Our results provide strong evidence in favor of counter-cyclical behavior of long-term stock market volatility. Among the various macro variables...
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Using a modified DCC-MIDAS specification, we endogenize the long-term correlation between crude oil and stock price returns with respect to the stance of the U.S. macroeconomy. We find that variables which contain information on current and future economic activity are helpful predictors for...
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