Empirical Economics

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08-05-2021 Open Access

Testing for the rationality of central bank interest rate forecasts

In this paper, we study the bias in interest rate projections of five central banks, namely the central banks of the Czech Republic, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, and the USA. We examine whether central bank projections are based on an asymmetric …

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06-05-2021

The effects of parental involvement in homework: two randomised controlled trials in financial education

This paper provides causal evidence on the effects of parental involvement on student outcomes in a financial education course based on two randomised controlled trials with a total of 2779 students from grade 8 and 9 in Flanders. Using an …

03-05-2021

Applications of efficiency and productivity analysis: editors’ introduction

02-05-2021

Addressing endogeneity when estimating stochastic ray production frontiers: a Bayesian approach

We propose a Bayesian approach for inference in the stochastic ray production frontier (SRPF), which can model multiple-input–multiple-output production technologies even in case of zero output quantities, i.e., if some outputs are not produced by …

29-04-2021

Local projection variance impulse response

This paper specifies a semiparametric variance impulse response function using realized variances. The news impact and impulse responses are estimated using local projection methods using least squares and external instruments. Compared to impulse …

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Title

Empirical Economics

Publisher

Springer Berlin Heidelberg

Coverage

Volume 22/1997 - Volume 60/2021

Print ISSN

0377-7332

Electronic ISSN

1435-8921

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1007/181.1435-8921

Journal ID

181