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The impact of medical and nursing home expenses and social insurance
Koreshkova, Tatyana; Kopecky, Karen A. (2010)
We consider a life-cycle model with idiosyncratic risk in earnings, out-of-pocket medical and nursing home expenses, and survival. Partial insurance is available through welfare, Medicaid, and social security. Calibrating the model to the United States, we show that (1) savings for old-age, out-of-pocket expenses account for 13.5 percent of aggregate wealth, half of which is due to nursing home expenses; (2) cross-sectional out-of-pocket nursing home risk accounts for 3 percent of aggregate wealth and substantially slows down wealth decumulation at older ages; (3) the impact of medical and ...
FRB Atlanta Working Paper , Paper 2010-19

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Price distributions and competition
Smith, Eric; Burdett, Kenneth (2009)
Considerable evidence demonstrates that significant dispersion exists in the prices charged for seemingly homogeneous goods. This paper adopts a simple, flexible equilibrium model of search to investigate the way the market structure influences price dispersion. Using the noisy search approach, the paper demonstrates the effects of having a single large, price-leading firm with multiple outlets and a competitive fringe of small firms with one retail outlet each.
FRB Atlanta Working Paper , Paper 2009-27

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Emerging market liberalization and the impact on uncovered interest rate parity
Hunter, Delroy; Francis, Bill; Hasan, Iftekhar (2002)
In this paper we make use of the uncovered interest rate parity (UIRP) relationship to examine the extent that the liberalization of emerging financial markets has resulted in the integration of developing countries? currency markets into the international capital market. Previous tests of the impact of liberalization on the integration of emerging markets capital markets into world financial markets are confined to equity markets, ignoring currency markets that arguably are more important in determining the success of financial liberalization. We find that, in general, deviation from UIRP in ...
FRB Atlanta Working Paper , Paper 2002-16

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Generalized put-call parity
Babbel, David F.; Eisenberg, Laurence K. (1991)
FRB Atlanta Working Paper , Paper 91-9

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Too Good to Be True? Fallacies in Evaluating Risk Factor Models
Robotti, Cesare; Gospodinov, Nikolay; Kan, Raymond (2017-11-01)
This paper is concerned with statistical inference and model evaluation in possibly misspecified and unidentified linear asset-pricing models estimated by maximum likelihood and one-step generalized method of moments. Strikingly, when spurious factors (that is, factors that are uncorrelated with the returns on the test assets) are present, the models exhibit perfect fit, as measured by the squared correlation between the model's fitted expected returns and the average realized returns. Furthermore, factors that are spurious are selected with high probability, while factors that are useful are ...
FRB Atlanta Working Paper , Paper 2017-9

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Option pricing with random volatilities in complete markets
Eisenberg, Laurence K.; Jarrow, Robert A. (1991)
FRB Atlanta Working Paper , Paper 91-16

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An experimental examination of the house money effect in a multi-period setting
Charupat, Narat; Tompkins, James; Church, Bryan K.; Deaves, Richard; Ackert, Lucy F. (2003)
There is evidence that risk-taking behavior is influenced by prior monetary gains and losses. When endowed with house money, people become more risk taking. This paper is the first to report a house money effect in a dynamic, financial setting. Using an experimental method, the authors compare market outcomes across sessions that differ in the level of cash endowment (low and high). Their experimental results provide strong support for a house money effect. Traders' bids, price predictions, and market prices are influenced by the amount of money that is provided prior to trading. However, ...
FRB Atlanta Working Paper , Paper 2003-13

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Estimating Hysteresis Effects
Furlanetto, Francesco; Lepetit, Antoine; Robstad, Ørjan; Rubio-Ramirez, Juan F.; Ulvedal, Pål (2021-11-09)
In this paper, we identify demand shocks that can have a permanent effect on output through hysteresis effects. We call these shocks permanent demand shocks. They are found to be quantitatively important in the United States, in particular when the sample includes the Great Recession. Recessions driven by permanent demand shocks lead to a permanent decline in employment and investment, although output per worker is largely unaffected. We find strong evidence that hysteresis transmits through a rise in long-term unemployment and a decline in labor force participation and disproportionately ...
FRB Atlanta Working Paper , Paper 2021-24

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Markov-switching structural vector autoregressions: theory and application
Rubio-Ramirez, Juan F.; Zha, Tao; Waggoner, Daniel F. (2005)
This paper develops a new and easily implementable necessary and sufficient condition for the exact identification of a Markov-switching structural vector autoregression (SVAR) model. The theorem applies to models with both linear and some nonlinear restrictions on the structural parameters. We also derive efficient MCMC algorithms to implement sign and long-run restrictions in Markov-switching SVARs. Using our methods, four well-known identification schemes are used to study whether monetary policy has changed in the euro area since the introduction of the European Monetary Union. We find ...
FRB Atlanta Working Paper , Paper 2005-27

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To work or not to work: the economics of a mother's dilemma
Walker, Mary Beth; Pitts, M. Melinda; Hotchkiss, Julie L. (2011)
Utilizing linked vital statistics, administrative employer, and state welfare records, the analysis in this paper investigates the determinants of a woman's intermittent labor force decision at the time of a major life event: the birth of a child. The results indicate that both direct and opportunity labor market costs of exiting the workforce figure significantly into that decision. Further, the analysis reveals the importance of including information about the mother's prebirth job when making inferences about the role various demographics play in the intermittent labor force decision.
FRB Atlanta Working Paper , Paper 2011-02

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