#LyX 1.5.4 created this file. For more info see http://www.lyx.org/ \lyxformat 276 \begin_document \begin_header \textclass article \language english \inputencoding auto \font_roman default \font_sans default \font_typewriter default \font_default_family default \font_sc false \font_osf false \font_sf_scale 100 \font_tt_scale 100 \graphics default \paperfontsize default \papersize default \use_geometry false \use_amsmath 1 \use_esint 1 \cite_engine basic \use_bibtopic false \paperorientation portrait \secnumdepth 3 \tocdepth 3 \paragraph_separation indent \defskip medskip \quotes_language english \papercolumns 1 \papersides 1 \paperpagestyle default \tracking_changes false \output_changes false \author "" \author "" \end_header \begin_body \begin_layout Standard \begin_inset Formula $pr'$ \end_inset has today down and tomorrow across, so \begin_inset Formula $pr$ \end_inset has the transpose of this. Note what we've written the elements of the matrix \begin_inset Formula $pr'$ \end_inset and not \begin_inset Formula $pr$ \end_inset . \end_layout \begin_layout Standard \begin_inset Formula \[ pr'=\left[\begin{array}{cccc} gg11 & gb11 & gg10 & gb10\\ bg11 & bb11 & bg10 & bb10\\ gg01 & gb01 & gg00 & gb00\\ bg01 & bb01 & bg00 & bb00\end{array}\right]\] \end_inset \end_layout \begin_layout Standard Forming the transpose: \end_layout \begin_layout Standard \begin_inset Formula \[ pr=\left[\begin{array}{cccc} gg11 & bg11 & gg01 & bg01\\ gb11 & bb11 & gb01 & bb01\\ gg10 & bg10 & gg00 & bg00\\ gb10 & bb10 & gb00 & bb00\end{array}\right]\] \end_inset \end_layout \begin_layout Standard so \begin_inset Formula $pr$ \end_inset now has tomorrow down and today across. In our expected value calculation, therefore, \end_layout \begin_layout Standard \begin_inset Formula \[ pr=\left[\begin{array}{cccc} 0.8507\\ \\\\ & & & 0.5250\end{array}\right]\] \end_inset \end_layout \begin_layout Standard Using the parameters and restrictions given in the paper, the probability that you are in a good state today, a good state tomorrow, employed today and employed tomorrow is \begin_inset Formula $0.85$ \end_inset . The probability you move from bad unemployed today, to bad unemployed tomorrow is \begin_inset Formula $0.52$ \end_inset . his \end_layout \end_body \end_document