Working Paper Archives
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis working papers are preliminary materials circulated to stimulate discussion and critial comment.
Mathematical and Quantitative Methods
Too Big to Cheat: Efficiency and Investment in Partnerships
This paper studies the efficient arrangement among several agents that are subject to idiosyncratic, privately observed taste shocks affecting their marginal utility of current consumption.
This paper provides a general framework for the quantitative analysis of stochastic dynamic models. We review convergence properties of some numerical algorithms and available methods to bound approximation errors.
Multi-Step Ahead Forecasting of Vector Time Series
This paper develops the theory of multi-step ahead forecasting for vector time series that exhibit temporal nonstationarity and co-integration.
Bankruptcy and Delinquency in a Model of Unsecured Debt
Limited commitment for the repayment of unsecured consumer debt originates from two places: (i) formal bankruptcy laws granting a partial or complete legal removal of unsecured debts under certain circumstances, and (ii) informal default followed by renegotiation, "delinquency."
Why Doesn’t Technology Flow from Rich to Poor Countries?
What determines the technology that a country adopts? While there could be many factors, the efficiency of the country’s financial system may play a significant role.
Consistent Testing for Structural Change at the Ends of the Sample
In this paper we provide analytical and Monte Carlo evidence that Chow and Predictive tests can be consistent against alternatives that allow structural change to occur at either end of the sample.
Unemployment Insurance Fraud and Optimal Monitoring
The most prevalent incentive problem in the U.S. unemployment insurance system is that individuals collect unemployment benefits while being gainfully employed. We show how to efficiently use a combination of tax/subsidy and monitoring to prevent such fraud.
