Nominal stability over two centuries

Abstract I assess the stability of the monetary environment in Switzerland over the past two centuries. In order to control for transitory measurement errors, in particular in nineteenth century data, I use an unobserved-components stochastic-volatility model to extract the permanent trends from sev...

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Main Author: Daniel Kaufmann
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2019-06-01
Series:Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s41937-019-0033-7