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This paper analyses the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the degree of persistence of European stock markets. Specifically, it uses fractional integration methods to estimate persistence at the daily, weekly and monthly frequencies in the case of ten major European stock market indices; the...
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We provide a method for distinguishing long-range dependence from deterministic trends such as structural breaks. The method is based on the comparison of standard log-periodogram regression estimation of the memory parameter with its tapered counterpart. The difference of these estimators...
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This paper deals with a critical assessment and a reestimation of the "non-accelerating in ation rate of unemployment …
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forecasting German unemployment in the short run. Every month, the CEOs of the FEA’s regional agencies are asked about their … expectations of future labor market developments. We generate an aggregate unemployment leading indicator that exploits serial …
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This paper presents a cliometric application of fractional integrated processes to socio-economic time series for France and Germany in the 19th and 20th centuries. The analysis leads to a significant result: no short or long term cycle appears as the dominant constituent.
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. It demonstrates strong correlations between keyword searches and unemployment rates using monthly German data and …
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. It demonstrates strong correlations between keyword searches and unemployment rates using monthly German data and …
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This paper assesses empirically two competing accounts of high unemployment, the structuralist and persistence theories …. It identifies one structural break in UK and German unemployment around 1980 which is more severe in both absolute and … is used to capture fast-up, slow-down unemployment dynamics. Impulse response functions suggest that the half-lives of …
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In recent years, unemployment has become a major problem in many countries. The fluctuations of the unemployment rate … appropriate policy measures, it is necessary to know the exact character of the unemployment in the observed country – is it … behavior of the unemployment rates – the concept of the natural rate of unemployment or hysteresis hypothesis. The character of …
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. It demonstrates strong correlations between keyword searches and unemployment rates using monthly German data and …
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