The Olympic Effect

Andrew K. Rose, Mark M. Spiegel

NBER Working Paper No. 14854
Issued in April 2009

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We thank Christopher Candelaria for excellent research assistance, and Keith Head for help with his tetradic programs. For comments, we thank: John Fernald; Reuven Glick; Yuri Gorodnichenko; Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas; Galina Hale; Dennis Novy; Assaf Razin; Glenn Rudebusch; Jay Shambaugh; Bent Sorensen; Eric Swanson; Linda Tesar; Shang-Jin Wei; John Williams; Eric van Wincoop; and workshop participants at UC Berkeley, FRBSF, and the NBER. A current version of this paper is posted at Rose’s website, along with the relevant data sets and sample output. The views presented in this paper are those of authors and do not represent the views of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, nor the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve, nor the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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