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A comparison of optimal policy rules prior to and during inflation targeting: empirical evidence from Bank of Canada
(Taylor & Francis, 2017)
We examine policy rules that are consistent with inflation targeting (IT) framework in a small macroeconomic model of the Canadian economy. We set up an optimal linear regulator problem and derive policy rules to compare ...
Firm boundaries, incentives, and fund performance: Evidence from a private pension fund system
(Elsevier, 2020-06)
The private pension fund system in Turkey presents a unique institutional structure where bank holding companies can own both private pension companies and asset management firms. More often than not, pension companies ...
Unemployment flows, participation, and the natural rate of unemployment: Evidence from Turkey
(Elsevier, 2020-06)
We use a parsimonious unobserved components model with flow rates to estimate a time-varying unemployment rate trend for Turkey. Our approach is grounded in the modern theory of labor market search. This trend estimate ...
Random mechanisms for house allocation with existing tenants
(Elsevier, 2020-08)
We study the house allocation problem with existing tenants: n houses (stand for "indivisible objects") are to be allocated to n agents; each agent needs exactly one house and has strict preferences; k houses are initially ...
Hierarchical modeling of choice concentration of US households
(Wiley, 2014)
This chapter contains sections titled: Introduction Data Description Measures of Choice Concentration Methodology Results Interpreting θ Decomposing the Effects of Time, Number of Decisions and Concentration Preference Conclusion.
Will a fat tax work?
(Wiley, 2016-01)
Of the many proposals to reverse the obesity epidemic, the most contentious is the use of price-based interventions such as the fat tax. Previous investigations of the efficacy of such initiatives in altering consumption ...
Emerging market economies and the world interest rate
(Elsevier, 2015-11)
We use a Factor Augmented VAR model to estimate the dynamic responses of interest rates in emerging market economies to the ‘world’ interest rate, which we extract from a dynamic factor model of yields in industrialized ...
A theory of iterative choice in lists
(Elsevier, 2014-08)
In a list, alternatives appear according to an order and the decision maker follows this order to evaluate alternatives. He records the first alternative as the initial survivor and then at every stage, he compares the ...
An experiment on aspiration-based choice
(Elsevier, 2015-11)
This paper experimentally studies the influence of aspirations on choice. Motivated by the theoretical model of Guney et al. (2015), we consider choice problems which may include unavailable alternatives. In a choice ...
Catching up or drifting apart: convergence of household and business credit in Europe
(Elsevier, 2017)
We provide evidence for convergence in the levels of household and business credit across European countries. The process is particularly strong for the transition countries that have a low initial level of private credit ...
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