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Research Department Working Papers
Jointly Estimating Macroeconomic News and Surprise Shocks
This paper clarifies the conditions under which the state-of-the-art approach to identifying TFP news shocks in Kurmann and Sims (2021) identifies not only news shocks but also surprise shocks.
April 20, 2023
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Research Department Working Papers
State-Dependent Local Projections
Do state-dependent local projections asymptotically recover the population responses of macroeconomic aggregates to structural shocks? The answer to this question depends on how the state of the economy is determined and on the magnitude of the shocks.
April 19, 2023
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Globalization Institute Working Paper
Pooled Bewley Estimator of Long-Run Relationships in Dynamic Heterogenous Panels
This paper, using the Bewley (1979) transformation of the autoregressive distributed lag model, proposes a novel pooled Bewley (PB) estimator of long-run coefficients for dynamic panels with heterogeneous short-run dynamics, in the same setting as the widely used Pooled Mean Group (PMG) estimator.
April 17, 2023
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Globalization Institute Working Paper
Revisiting the Great Ratios Hypothesis
Using a new system pooled mean group estimator and a dataset spanning almost one and a half centuries and 17 countries, this paper finds support for five out of the seven great ratios considered.
April 14, 2023
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Job vacancy, unemployment relationship clouds ‘soft landing’ prospects
Some economists have argued that because the job vacancy rate has been well above its prepandemic level, there is plenty of room for vacancies to fall before the unemployment rate must rise.
February 07, 2023
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Globalization Institute Working Paper
Variable Selection in High Dimensional Linear Regressions with Parameter Instability
This paper is concerned with the problem of variable selection when the marginal effects of signals on the target variable as well as the correlation of the covariates in the active set are allowed to vary over time, without committing to any particular model of parameter instabilities.
January 18, 2023
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Research Department Working Papers
Dynamic Identification Using System Projections and Instrumental Variables
This paper proposes System Projections on Instrumental Variables (SP-IV) to estimate dynamic structural relationships using impulse responses obtained from local projections or vector autoregressions.
January 09, 2023
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Research Department Working Papers
A Robust Test for Weak Instruments with Multiple Endogenous Regressors
This paper generalizes the popular bias-based test of Stock and Yogo (2005) for instrument strength in two-stage least-squares models with multiple endogenous regressors to be robust to heteroskedasticity and autocorrelation.
December 24, 2022
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Research Department Working Papers
The Contribution of Jump Signs and Activity to Forecasting Stock Price Volatility
This paper proposes a novel approach to decompose realized jump measures by type of activity (finite/infinite) and by sign.
December 17, 2022
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Globalization Institute Working Paper
Commodity Exports, Financial Frictions and International Spillovers
This paper offers a solution to the international co-movement puzzle found in open-economy macroeconomic models.
December 16, 2022