This paper studies a stochastic conditional duration (SCD) model with a mixture of distribution processes for financial asset’s transaction data. Specifically it imposes a mixture of two positive distributions on the innovations of the observed duration process, where the mixture component...

Building on the tools developed for American call options in financial markets and the optimal timing of investment under uncertainty in economics, this paper proposes a stylized equilibrium model to study the optimal time for a risk-averse unemployed individual, who receives an unemployment...

This paper proposes a threshold stochastic conditional duration (TSCD) model to capture the asymmetric property of financial transactions. The innovation of the observable duration equation is assumed to follow a threshold distribution with two component distributions switching between two...

This paper extends stochastic conditional duration (SCD) models for financial transaction data to allow for correlation between error processes or innovations of observed duration process and latent log duration process. Novel algorithms of Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) are developed to fit...

There is a substantial empirical literature which examines the relationship between private and public consumption. The conclusions from this literature, however, are generally mixed. In this paper, we attempt to provide some additional evidence on this relationship. We consider a two-good...

An empirical puzzle in international finance is the finding of a high correlation between national savings and domestic investment. This result is widely interpreted as evidence of low international capital mobility. This paper examines the long run behaviour of national savings and domestic...

The paper investigates whether there are variants of the permanent income model which are consistent with quarterly, seasonally unadjusted post-war Canadian data. The model estimates about 20 percent of consumers follow the rule of thumb of consuming their current income. This suggests a large...

This paper considers a general permanent-income model in which a fraction of consumers in the economy is liquidity constrained. Consumption growth rate for these individuals is related to the growth rate of their income and the level of real interest rates. The interest-rate coefficient is...

In a recent paper Mercenier and Sekkat (1988) conclude that the Bank of Canada has followed a policy of exchange rate targeting using the money supply. We reexamine their results using a different estimation approach and with different assumptions about the forcing process of the exogenous...