C32 E23 E24 E32
The Relationships between Permanent and Transitory Movements in U.S. Output and the Unemployment Rate, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking (2008)
This paper estimates the permanent and transitory movements in U.S. output and the unemployment rate...
C32, E32
Asymmetry in the Business Cycle: Friedman’s Plucking Model with Correlated Innovations (2008)
Recent research has shown that unobserved components (UC) models can, under certain conditions, be estimated...
Output Fluctuations in the G-7: An Unobserved Components Approach (with Sinchan Mitra) (2008)
This paper contributes to the debate about the relative importance of permanent versus transitory disturbances...
C43
The Differential Approach to Superlative Index Number Theory (with William A. Barnett and Ki-Hong Choi), Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics (2002)
Diewert’s (1976) “superlative” index numbers, defined to be exact for second order aggregator functions, unify...
E24 J32 J41 J63 J64
Searching For Better Prospects: Endogenizing Falling Job Tenure and Private Pension Coverage (with Leora Friedberg and Michael T. Owyang), The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy (2007)
Recent declines in job tenure have coincided with a shift away from traditional defined benefit...
E37, C53, E52
Directional Forecasts of GDP and Inflation: A Joint Evaluation with an Application to Federal Reserve Predictions (with H.O. Stekler and Lindsay Kitzinger), Applied Economics (2006)
Many studies have undertaken separate analyses of the Fed’s forecasts of real GDP growth and...
O57
Output Fluctuations in the G-7: An Unobserved Components Approach (with Sinchan Mitra) (2008)
This paper contributes to the debate about the relative importance of permanent versus transitory disturbances...