We compare the estimator for discount rates according to Elsner and Krumholz (EK) (2013) to the approach propagated in Breuer et al. (2014) (BFM). While the EK estimator is derived analytically and implies a correcting factor by which the original arithmetic mean estimator is adjusted, the BFM...

With representative agents maximizing their expected Xife time Utility, it can be shown under certain functional form assumptions that consumption follows a random walk and should be cointegrated across countries, because in an optimal risk pooling arrangement agents smooth consumptions with...

This note is concerned with estimating censored quantile regressions (CQR). As its major contribution, a' new algorithm, called BRCENS, is developed as an adaption of the Barrodale-Roberts algorithm for the standard quantile regression problem. In a subsequent simulation study, BRCENS performs...