Mind the gap: Computing finance-neutral output gaps in Latin-American economies

Computing Equilibria in Finance Economies

The general equilibrium model with incomplete asset markets provides a uni ed framework for many problems in nance and macroeconomics. In its simplest version with only two time periods and a single physical commodity the model is ideally suited for the study of problems in cross sectional asset pricing and portfolio theory. In this paper we develop a homotopy algorithm to approximate equilibri...

The Transmission of US Shocks To Latin American Economies

Abstract: This paper studies the transmission properties of US shocks to six Latin American countries. A model, underlying possible channels of transmissions, is presented and restrictions implied by the model are used to identify shocks. Empirically US shocks are extracted using the new two-step procedure of Canova and De Nicolo' (1999) and treated as exogenous with respect to Latin American e...

Unemployment and Real Exchange Rate Dynamics in Latin American Economies

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Mind the Gap: Learning to Choose Gaps for Question Generation

Not all learning takes place in an educational setting: more and more self-motivated learners are turning to on-line text to learn about new topics. Our goal is to provide such learners with the well-known benefits of testing by automatically generating quiz questions for online text. Prior work on question generation has focused on the grammaticality of generated questions and generating effec...

“Mind the Gap” in Reporting the Outdated Statistics