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Persistence and cycles in the US Federal Funds rate

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The new stylized facts about income and subjective well-being

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Measuring strategic firm interaction in product-quality choices: The case of airline flight frequency

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A Federal Long-run Projection Model for Germany

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A note on the stochastic properties of German stock returns

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Dynamic programming & local computation

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Market power, multimarket contact and pricing : some evidence from the US automobile market

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