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Working Paper
Working Paper Series
Demand-determined potential output: a revision and update of Okun’s original method

By Claudia Fontanari, Antonella Palumbo, and Chiara Salvatori

May 2019

Everyone is waking up to the fact that estimates of what is possible in the economy are way off: this paper explains why
Working Paper
Working Paper Series
Stock-Market Expectations: Econometric Evidence that both REH and Behavioral Insights Matter

By Roman Frydman and Josh Stillwagon

May 2016

Behavioral finance views stock-market investors’ expectations as largely unrelated to fundamental factors. Relying on survey data, this paper presents econometric evidence that fundamentals are a major driver of investors’ expectations.
Working Paper
Partnership Paper
Is There a Debt-threshold Effect on Output Growth?

By M. Hashem Pesaran

Jul 2015

This paper studies the long-run impact of public debt expansion on economic growth and investigates whether the debt-growth relation varies with the level of indebtedness.
Working Paper
Working paper
Is There a Debt-threshold Effect on Output Growth?

By M. Hashem Pesaran

Jun 2015

This paper studies the long-run impact of public debt expansion on economic growth and investigates whether the debt-growth relation varies with the level of indebtedness.