QAU Working Papers present economic or financial research conducted by Boston Fed economists from the Quantitative Analysis Unit and are intended for publication in professional journals. The intended audience is scholars and informed specialists.
No. QAU08-2 “Is Obesity Contagious? Social Networks vs. Environmental Factors in the Obesity Epidemic”
by Ethan Cohen-Cole and Jason M. Fletcher
Forthcoming in Journal of Health Economics.
No. QAU07-8 “Loss Distribution Estimation, External Data and Model Averaging”
by Ethan Cohen-Cole and Todd Prono Forthcoming in Journal of Financial Risk Management.
No. QAU07-3 “Model Uncertainty and the Deterrent Effect of Capital Punishment”
by Ethan Cohen-Cole, Steven Durlauf, Jeffrey Fagan, Daniel Nagin
Also listed as Wisconsin SSRI WPS 2007-3; Columbia Public Law Research Paper 07-138; Forthcoming in American Law and Economic Review
No. QAU07-2
“The Relative Efficiency of Endogenous Proxies : Still Living with the Roll Critique”
by Todd Prono
Also listed as FRBB Research Department Working Paper 07-01
Revised: March 2008
No. QAU07-1
“In Noise We Trust? Optimal Monetary Policy with Random Targets”
by Ethan Cohen-Cole and Bogdan Cosmaciuc
Also listed as FRBB Research Department Working Paper 06-14
