Christian Haefke

Product market deregulation and the U.S. employment miracle (2008)

Ebell, Monique, Haefke, Christian

We consider the dynamic relationship between product market entry regulation and equilibrium unemployment. The main theoretical contribution is combining a job matching model with monopolistic...

Product market deregulation and the U.S. employment miracle (2008)

Ebell, Monique, Haefke, Christian

We consider the dynamic relationship between product market entry regulation and equilibrium unemployment. The main theoretical contribution is combining a job matching model with monopolistic...

SHOCKS AND INSTITUTIONS IN A JOB MATCHING MODEL (2007)

Christian Haefke, Garey Ramey

ABSTRACT. This paper explains the divergent behavior of European and US unemployment rates using a job market matching model of the labor market with an interaction between shocks and institutions....

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Andreas Gottschling, Christian Haefke, Halbert White

Many economic and econometric applications require the integration of functions lacking a closed form antiderivative, which is therefore a task that can only be solved by numerical methods. We...

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Patrice Bertail, Christian Haefke, Dimitris N. Politis, Halbert White

A subsampling approach to estimating the distribution of diverging statistics with applications to assessing nancial market risks

European Unemployment and Turbulence (2007)

Revisited In Matching, Lars Ljungqvist, Thomas J. Sargent, Christian Haefke

We recalibrate den Haan, Haefke, and Ramey's matching model to capture our preferred specification of `turbulence', modelled in terms of the transition dynamics of human capital after...

Wage Rigidity and Job Creation (2007)

Haefke, Christian, Sonntag, Marcus, Rens, Thijs Van

Shimer (2005) and Hall (2005) have documented the failure of standard labor market search models to match business cycle fluctuations in employment and unemployment. They argue that it is likely that...

Endogenous Labor Market Participation and the Business Cycle (2006)

Haefke, Christian, Reiter, Michael

Existing models of equilibrium unemployment with endogenous labor market participation are complex, generate procyclical unemployment rates and cannot match unemployment variability relative to GDP....

Product Market Deregulation and the U.S. Employment Miracle (2006)

Ebell, Monique, Haefke, Christian

We consider the dynamic relationship between product market entry regulation and equilibrium unemployment. The main theoretical contribution is combining a job matching model with monopolistic...

Product Market Deregulation and the U.S. Employment Miracle (2006)

Ebell, Monique, Haefke, Christian

We consider the dynamic relationship between product market entry regulation and equilibrium unemployment. The main theoretical contribution is combining a job matching model with monopolistic...

Endogenous Labor Market Participation and the Business Cycle (2006)

Haefke, Christian, Reiter, Michael

Existing models of equilibrium unemployment with endogenous labor market participation are complex, generate procyclical unemployment rates and cannot match unemployment variability relative to GDP....

Keywords: Monetary Policy, Unions, Inflation. (2005)

Stefano Gnocchi, Christian Haefke, Michael Reiter, Alessia Campolmi, Chiara Forlati For

The purpose of the paper is to study the monetary policy implications of unionized labor markets in a New Keynesian framework. It is shown that, once the presence of large wage setters is taken into...

Turbulence and Unemployment in a Job Matching Model (2004)

Wouter, J. Den Haan, Haefke, Christian, Ramey, Garey

According to Ljungqvist and Sargent (1998), high European unemployment since the 1980s can be explained by a rise in economic turbulence, leading to greater numbers of unemployed workers with...

Product Market Deregulation and Labor Market Outcomes (2002)

Ebell, Monique Caroline, Haefke, Christian

We consider the dynamic relationship between product market entry regulation and equilibrium unemployment. The main theoretical contribution is combining a Mortensen-Pissarides model with...

Product Market Deregulation and the U.S. Employment Miracle (2002)

Ebell, Monique Caroline, Haefke, Christian

The paper by Corsetti et al. in this volume studies how the presence of large investors affects the nature of currency crises. Its motivation is the alleged prominent role that some hedge funds and...

Hypernormal Densities (2002)

Giacomini, Raffaella, Haefke, Christian, White, Halbert, Gottschling, Andreas

We propose a new family of density function that posses both flexibility and closed form expressions for moments and anti-derivatives, making them particularly appealing for applications. We...

Hypernormal Densities (2002)

Giacomini, Raffaella, Gottschling, Andreas, Haefke, Christian, White, Halbert

We derive a new family of probability densities that have the property of closed-form integrability. This flexible family finds a variety of applications, of which we illustrate density forecasting...

Hypernormal Densities (2002)

Giacomini, Raffaella, Gottschling, Andreas Peter, Haefke, Christian, White, Halbert

We propose a new family of density functions that possess both flexibility and closed form expressions for moments and anti-derivatives, making them particularly appealing for applications. We...

A Subsampling Approach to Estimating the Distribution of Diversing Statistics with Application to Assessing Financial Market Risks (2001)

Bertail, Patrice, Haefke, Christian, Politis, Dimitris N., White, Halbert

In this paper we propose a subsampling estimator for the distribution of statistics diverging at either known rates when the underlying time series in strictly stationary abd strong mixing. Based on...

Shocks and Institutions in a Job Matching Model (2001)

Den Haan, Wouter J., Haefke, Christian, Ramey, Garey

This paper explains the divergent behavior of European and US unemployment rates using a job market model of the labor market with an interaction between shocks and institutions. It shows that a...

Shocks and Institutions in a Job Matching Model (2001)

Haefke, Christian

This paper explains the divergent behavior of European an US unemployment rates using a job market matching model of the labor market with an interaction between shocks an institutions. It shows that...

A Subsampling Approach to Estimating The Distribution of Diverging Statistics with Applications to Assessing Financial Market Risk (2000)

Bertail, Patrice, Haefke, Christian, Politis, D N, White, Halbert

In this paper we propose a subsampling estimator for the distribution of statistics diverging at either known or unknown rates when the underlying time series is strictly stationary and strong...

Closed Form Integration of Artificial Neural Networks with Some Applications to Finance (1999)

Gottschling, Andreas, Haefke, Christian, White, Halbert

Many economic and econometric applications require the integration of functions lacking a closed form antiderivative, which is therefore a task that can only be solved by numerical methods. We...

Closed Form Integration of Artificial Neural Networks With Some Applications to Finance (1999)

Andreas Gottschling, Christian Haefke, Halbert White

Many economic and econometric applications require the integration of functions lacking a closed form antiderivative, which is therefore a task that can only be solved by numerical methods. We...

Empirical Regularities and the Forecasting of Industrial Production (1995)

Tarun Soni, Heinrich Otruba, Martin Natter, Christian Haefke

We forecast US Industrial Production growth rates as available through the IFSdatabase. We compare the predictions of Elman-Networks to those of Kalman Filters, Weighted Recursive LS, and OLS. The...

Can Neural Networks Capture Stylized Facts in Macroeconomic Time Series? (1995)

Tarun Soni, Heinrich Otruba, Christian Haefke, Martin Natter

Recently, the application of statistical error measures such as MSE or Theil's U has been criticized by Leitch and Tanner (1991) who argue that these criteria fail to capture a forecast's...

Endogenous Labor Market Participation and the Business Cycle

Christian Haefke, Michael Reiter

Existing models of equilibrium unemployment with endogenous labor market participation are complex, generate procyclical unemployment rates and cannot match unemployment variability relative to GDP....

Product Market Deregulation and the U.S. Employment Miracle

Monique Ebell, Christian Haefke

We consider the dynamic relationship between product market entry regulation and equilibrium unemployment. The main theoretical contribution is combining a job matching model with monopolistic...

Turbulence and Unemployment in a Job Matching Model

Den Haan, Wouter J., Haefke, Christian, Ramey, Garey

According to Ljungqvist and Sargent (1998), high European unemployment since the 1980s can be explained by a rise in economic turbulence, leading to greater numbers of unemployed workers with...

Turbulence And Unemployment In A Job Matching Model

Christian Haefke, Garey Ramey

According to Ljungqvist and Sargent (1998), high European unemployment since the 1980s can be explained by a rise in economic turbulence, leading to greater numbers of unemployed workers with...

Product Market Regulation and Endogenous Union Formation

Monique Ebell, Christian Haefke

We contribute to the growing literature which aims to link product market regulation and competition to labor market outcomes, in an attempt to explain the divergent US and continental European labor...

Forecasting Austrian IPOs: An Application of Linear and Neural Network Error-Correction Models

Haefke, Christian, Helmenstein, Christian

In this paper we apply cointegration and Granger-causality analyses to construct linear and neural network error-correction models for an Austrian Initial Public Offerings IndeX (IPOXATX). We use the...

Prediction Risk and the Forecasting of Stock Market Indexes

Haefke, Christian, Helmenstein, Christian

In most of the empirical research on capital markets, stock market indexes are used as proxies for the aggregate market development. In previous work we found that a particular market segment might...

Forecasting Stock Market Averages to Enhance Profitable Trading Strategies

Haefke, Christian, Helmenstein, Christian

In this paper we design a simple trading strategy to exploit the hypothesized distinct informational content of the arithmetic and geometric mean. The rejection of cointegration between the two stock...

Endogenous Labor Market Participation and the Business Cycle

Christian Haefke, Michael Reiter

Existing models of equilibrium unemployment with endogenous labor market participation are complex, generate procyclical unemployment rates, and suffer from the usual defects of matching models. We...

Mixtures of t-distributions for Finance and Forecasting

Giacomini, Raffaella, Gottschling, Andreas, Haefke, Christian, White, Halbert

We explore convenient analytic properties of distributions constructed as mixtures of scaled and shifted t-distributions. A feature that makes this family particularly desirable for econometric...

Forecasting Stock Market Averages to Enhance Profitable Trading Strategies

Christian Haefke, Christian Helmenstein

In this paper we design a simple trading strategy to exploit the hypothesized distinct informational content of the arithmetic and geometric mean. The rejection of cointegration between the two stock...

CLOSED FORM INTEGRATION OF ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS WITH SOME APPLICATIONS TO FINANCE

Christian Haefke, Halbert White, Andreas Gottschling

Many economic and econometric applications require the integration of functions lacking a closed form antiderivative, which is therefore a task that can only be solved by numerical methods. We...

Product Market Deregulation and Labor Market Outcomes

Ebell, Monique, Haefke, Christian

Recently, the interactions between product market structure and labor market outcomes have come under increased scrutiny. This paper considers the dynamic relationship between product market entry...

Product Market Deregulation and the U.S. Employment Miracle

Monique Ebell, Christian Haefke

We consider the dynamic relationship between product market entry regulation and equilibrium unemployment. The main theoretical contribution is combining a job matching model with monopolistic...

Projections Parameterized Expectations Algorithms (Fortran)

Christian Haefke

These programs use the techniques described in Ken Judd's 1992 "Journal of Economic Theory" article to solve the standard growth model using parameterized expectations. Another good reference for the...

Closed Form Integration of Artificial Neural Networks with Some Applications to Finance

Andreas Gottschling, Christian Haefke, Halbert White

Many economic and econometric applications require the integration of functions lacking a closed form antiderivative, which is therefore a task that can only be solved by numerical methods. We...

Multivariate Hypernormal Densities

Andreas Gottschling, Christian Haefke

The recently proposed family of hypernormal density functions possess the analytically convenient and computationally efficient property of closed form moments and anti-derivatives in the univariate...

Monetary Policy and Labor Market Institutions

Ester Faia, Christian Haefke

In this paper we study how differences in labor market institutions affect the impact of monetary policy on real activity for the U.S. and European countries. We model real shocks as changes in the...

Turbulence and Unemployment in a Job Matching Model

Den Haan, Wouter, Haefke, Christian, Ramey, Gary

According to Ljungqvist and Sargent (1998), high European unemployment since the 1980s can be explained by a rise in economic turbulence, leading to greater numbers of unemployed workers with...

Neural Networks in the Capital Markets: An Application to Index Forecasting.

Haefke, Christian, Helmenstein, Christian

In this article we construct an Index of Austrian Initial Public Offerings (IPOX) which is isomorph to the Austrian Traded Index (ATX). Conjecturing that the ATX qualifies as an explaining variable...

The Missing Link: Product Market Regulation, Collective Bargaining and the European Unemployment Puzzle

Christian Haefke, Monique Ebell

We examine product market regulation as an explanation for divergent US and continental European labor market performance. First, we show that the choice of bargaining regime is crucial for the...

Wage Rigidity and Job Creation

Christian Haefke, Marcus Sonntag, Thijs Van Rens

Shimer (2005) and Hall (2005) have documented the failure of standard labor market search models to match business cycle fluctuations in employment and unemployment. They argue that it is likely that...

Hypernormal Densities

Raffaella Giacomini, Andreas Gottschling, Christian Haefke, Halbert White

We derive a new family of probability densities that have the property of closed-form integrability. This flexible family finds a variety of applications, of which we illustrate density forecasting...

Projections Parameterized Expectations Algorithms (Gauss)

Christian Haefke

These programs use the techniques described in Ken Judd's 1992 "Journal of Economic Theory" article to solve the standard growth model using parameterized expectations. Another good reference for the...

Projections Parameterized Expectations Algorithms (Matlab)

Christian Haefke

These programs use the techniques described in Ken Judd's 1992 "Journal of Economic Theory" article to solve the standard growth model using parameterized expectations. Another good reference for the...

Hypernormal Densities

Raffaella Giacomini, Christian Haefke, Halbert White, Andreas Gottschling

We propose a new family of density function that posses both flexibility and closed form expressions for moments and anti-derivatives, making them particularly appealing for applications. We...

Shocks and Institutions in a Job Matching Model

Wouter Den Haan, Christian Haefke, Garey Ramey

This paper explains the divergent behavior of European and US unemployment rates using a job market model of the labor market with an interaction between shocks and institutions. It shows that a...

A Subsampling Approach to Estimating The Distribution of Diverging Statistics with Applications to Assessing Financial Market Risk

Patrice Bertail, Christian Haefke, D Politis, Halbert White

In this paper we propose a subsampling estimator for the distribution of statistics diverging at either known or unknown rates when the underlying time series is strictly stationary and strong...

Closed Form Integration of Artificial Neural Networks with Some Applications to Finance

Andreas Gottschling, Christian Haefke, Halbert White

Many economic and econometric applications require the integration of functions lacking a closed form antiderivative, which is therefore a task that can only be solved by numerical methods. We...

Shocks and Institutions in a Job Matching Model

Den Haan, Wouter, Haefke, Christian, Ramey, Gary

This Paper explains the divergent behaviour of European and US unemployment rates using a job market-matching model of the labour market with an interaction between shocks and institutions. It shows...

Product Market Deregulation and Labor Market Outcomes

Monique Ebell, Christian Haefke

Recently, the interactions between product market structure and labor market outcomes have come under increased scrutiny. This paper considers the dynamic relationship between product market...

Shocks and Institutions in a Job Matching Model

Christian Haefke

This paper explains the divergent behavior of European an US unemployment rates using a job market matching model of the labor market with an interaction between shocks an institutions. It shows that...

A Subsampling Approach to Estimating the Distribution of Diversing Statistics with Application to Assessing Financial Market Risks

Patrice Bertail, Christian Haefke, Dimitris N. Politis, Halbert White

In this paper we propose a subsampling estimator for the distribution of statistics diverging at either known rates when the underlying time series in strictly stationary abd strong mixing. Based on...

Hypernormal Densities

Raffaella Giacomini, Andreas Gottschling, Christian Haefke, Halbert White

We propose a new family of density functions that possess both flexibility and closed form expressions for moments and anti-derivatives, making them particularly appealing for applications. We...

Product Market Deregulation and Labor Market Outcomes

Monique Ebell, Christian Haefke

We consider the dynamic relationship between product market entry regulation and equilibrium unemployment. The main theoretical contribution is combining a Mortensen-Pissarides model with...

Turbulence and Unemployment in a Job Matching Model

Christian Haefke, Garey Ramey

According to Ljungqvist and Sargent (1998), high European unemployment since the 1980s can be explained by a rise in economic turbulence, leading to greater numbers of unemployed workers with...

Endogenous Labor Market Participation and the Business Cycle

Christian Haefke, Michael Reiter

Existing models of equilibrium unemployment with endogenous labor market participation are complex, generate procyclical unemployment rates and cannot match unemployment variability relative to GDP....

Wage Rigidity and Job Creation

Christian Haefke, Marcus Sonntag, Thijs Van Rens

Shimer (2005) and Hall (2005) have documented the failure of standard labor market search models to match business cycle fluctuations in employment and unemployment. They argue that it is likely that...

Product Market Deregulation and the U.S. Employment Miracle

Ebell, Monique, Haefke, Christian

We consider the dynamic relationship between product market entry regulation and equilibrium unemployment. The main theoretical contribution is combining a job matching model with monopolistic...

Product Market Deregulation and the U.S. Employment Miracle

Monique Ebell, Christian Haefke

We consider the dynamic relationship between product market entry regulation andequilibrium unemployment. The main theoretical contribution is combining a job matchingmodel with monopolistic...

Closed Form Integration of Artificial Neural Networks with Some Applications to Finance

Andreas Gottschling, Christian Haefke, Halbert White

Many economic and econometric applications require the integration of functions lacking a closed form antiderivative, which is therefore a task that can only be solved by numerical methods. We...

Mixtures of t-distributions for finance and forecasting

Giacomini, Raffaella, Gottschling, Andreas, Haefke, Christian, White, Halbert

We explore convenient analytic properties of distributions constructed as mixtures of scaled and shifted t-distributions. Particularly desirable for econometric applications are closed-form...

Verflechtungen in der österreichischen Außenwirtschaft

Bernhard Felderer, Günther Grohall, Christian Haefke, Ulrich Schuh, Edith Skriner

Die Analyse (mit einem "Constant Market Shares" Modell) über die Wettbewerbsfähigkeit und Struktur hat ergeben, dass sich in der österreichischen Außenwirtschaft mit Gütern in den vergangenen...

Shocks and Institutions in a Job Matching Model

Wouter Den Haan, Christian Haefke, Garey Ramey

This paper explains the divergent behavior of European and US unemployment rates using a job market matching model of the labor market with an interaction between shocks and institutions. It shows...

Product Market Deregulation and the U.S. Employment Miracle

Monique Ebell, Christian Haefke

We consider the dynamic relationship between product market entry regulation and equilibrium unemployment. The main theoretical contribution is combining a job matching model with monopolistic...

Wage Rigidity and Job Creation

Christian Haefke, Marcus Sonntag, Thijs Van Rens

Standard macroeconomic models underpredict the volatility of unemployment fluctuations. A common solution is to assume wages are rigid. We explore whether this explanation is consistent with the...

Verflechtungen in der österreichischen Außenwirtschaft

Bernhard Felderer, Günther Grohall, Christian Haefke, Ulrich Schuh, Edith Skriner

Die Analyse (mit einem "Constant Market Shares" Modell) über die Wettbewerbsfähigkeit und Struktur hat ergeben, dass sich in der österreichischen Außenwirtschaft mit Gütern in den vergangenen...