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Forecast Rationality and Monetary Policy Frameworks: Evidence from UK Interest Rate Forecasts
This paper explores the heterogeneity and rationality of professional forecasts at both short and long forecast horizons. We employ disaggregated survey data for forecasts of three-month inter-bank rates and ten-year gilt yields for the period 1989-2006. We find evidence of heterogeneity among forecasters. Moreover, forecasts violate both the unbiasedness and orthogonality conditions of the rational expectations hypothesis. The majority of biased forecasts underestimate the future spot rate. The rationality of forecasts varies across maturities and forecast horizons with short horizon and short maturity forecasts exhibiting more rationality. It also varies across sub-periods corresponding to different monetary policy frameworks. We produce evidence indicating that both monetary policy actions and elements of communication policy have information content regarding the rationality of forecasts. Changes in official bank rates and disagreement, as recorded in the minutes of the Monetary Policy Committee, influence the rationality of forecasts. The publication of inflation reports has no effect
Recursions for distribution functions and stop-loss transforms.
For any functions on the non-negative integers, we can evaluate the cumulative function given by (s) = sx=o(x) from the values of by the recursion (s) = (s - 1) + (s). Analogously we can use this procedure t times to evaluate the t-th order cumulative function t when itself satisfies a certain sort of recursion. We shall also derive recursions for the tth order tails t where (s) = x=s+1(x). The recursions can be applied for exact and approximate evaluation of distribution functions and stop-loss transforms of probability distributions. The class of recursions for includes the classes discussed by Sundt (1992), incorporating the class studied by Panjer (1981). We discuss in particular convolutions and compound functions.Distribution; Functions;
Minimum Wage and Compliance in a Model of Search On-the-Job
minimum wages, compliance, job search, wage growth
Critical slowing down and hyperuniformity on approach to jamming
Hyperuniformity characterizes a state of matter that is poised at a critical
point at which density or volume-fraction fluctuations are anomalously
suppressed at infinite wavelengths. Recently, much attention has been given to
the link between strict jamming and hyperuniformity in frictionless
hard-particle packings. Doing so requires one to study very large packings,
which can be difficult to jam properly. We modify the rigorous linear
programming method of Donev et al. [J. Comp. Phys. 197, 139 (2004)] in order to
test for jamming in putatively jammed packings of hard-disks in two dimensions.
We find that various standard packing protocols struggle to reliably create
packings that are jammed for even modest system sizes; importantly, these
packings appear to be jammed by conventional tests. We present evidence that
suggests that deviations from hyperuniformity in putative maximally random
jammed (MRJ) packings can in part be explained by a shortcoming in generating
exactly-jammed configurations due to a type of "critical slowing down" as the
necessary rearrangements become difficult to realize by numerical protocols.
Additionally, various protocols are able to produce packings exhibiting
hyperuniformity to different extents, but this is because certain protocols are
better able to approach exactly-jammed configurations. Nonetheless, while one
should not generally expect exact hyperuniformity for disordered packings with
rattlers, we find that when jamming is ensured, our packings are very nearly
hyperuniform, and deviations from hyperuniformity correlate with an inability
to ensure jamming, suggesting that strict jamming and hyperuniformity are
indeed linked. This raises the possibility that the ideal MRJ packings have no
rattlers. Our work provides the impetus for the development of packing
algorithms that produce large disordered strictly jammed packings that are
rattler-free.Comment: 15 pages, 11 figures. Accepted for publication in Phys. Rev.
[Colored solutions of Yang-Baxter equation from representations of U_{q}gl(2)]
We study the Hopf algebra structure and the highest weight representation of
a multiparameter version of . The commutation relations as well as
other Hopf algebra maps are explicitly given. We show that the multiparameter
universal matrix can be constructed directly as a quantum double
intertwiner, without using Reshetikhin's transformation. An interesting feature
automatically appears in the representation theory: it can be divided into two
types, one for generic , the other for being a root of unity. When
applying the representation theory to the multiparameter universal
matrix, the so called standard and nonstandard colored solutions of the Yang-Baxter equation is obtained.Comment: [14]pages, latex, no figure
Do methanethiol adsorbates on the Au(111) surface dissociate?
The interaction of methanethiol molecules CHSH with the Au(111) surface
is investigated, and it is found for the first time that the S-H bond remains
intact when the methanethiol molecules are adsorbed on the regular Au(111)
surface. However, it breaks if defects are present in the Au(111) surface. At
low coverage, the fcc region is favored for S atom adsorption, but at saturated
coverage the adsorption energies at various sites are almost iso-energetic. The
presented calculations show that a methanethiol layer on the regular Au(111)
surface does not dimerize.Comment: 4 pages, 2 figures, 4 tables, submitted to Phys. Rev. Let
Evolving Network With Different Edges
We proposed an evolving network model constituted by the same nodes but
different edges. The competition between nodes and different links were
introduced. Scale free properties have been found in this model by continuum
theory. Different network topologies can be generated by some tunable
parameters. Simulation results consolidate the prediction.Comment: 14 pages, 9 figures, some contents revised, fluctuation of x degree
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Neutrino mixing with broken symmetry
We explore the consequences of assuming that the neutrino mass matrix is a
linear combination of the matrices of a three dimensional representation of the
group and that it has one zero mass eigenvalue. When implemented, these
two assumptions allow us to express the transformation matrix relating the mass
eigenstates to the flavor eigenstates in terms of a single parameter which we
fit to the available data.Comment: Final version. Published in Phys. Rev. D 82, 033005 (2010
Unveiling Su Aurigae in the near Infrared: New high spatial resolution results using Adaptive Optics
We present here new results on circumstellar nebulosity around SU Aurigae, a
T-Tauri star of about 2 solar mass and 5 Myrs old at 152 pc in the J, H and K
bands using high resolution adaptive optics imaging (0\farcs30) with the Penn
state IR Imaging Spectrograph (PIRIS) at the 100 inch Mt. Wilson telescope.
A comparison with HST STIS optical (0.2 to 1.1 micron) images shows that the
orientation of the circumstellar nebulosity in the near-IR extends from PAs 210
to 270 degrees in H and K bands and up to 300 degrees in the J band. We call
the circumstellar nebulosity seen between 210 to 270 degrees as 'IR
nebulosity'. We find that the IR nebulosity (which extends up to 3.5 arcsecs in
J band and 2.5 arcsecs in the K band) is due to scattered light from the
central star. The IR nebulosity is either a cavity formed by the stellar
outflows or part of the circumstellar disk. We present a schematic
3-dimensional geometrical model of the disk and jet of SU Aur based on STIS and
our near-IR observations. According to this model the IR nebulosity is a part
of the circumstellar disk seen at high inclination angles. The extension of the
IR nebulosity is consistent with estimates of the disk diameter of 50 to 400 AU
in radius, from earlier mm, K band interferometric observations and SED
fittings.Comment: Accepted for publications in the Astronomical Journal, to appear in
the May issue of the Journa
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