Title:Granger-Causal Analysis of VARMA-GARCH Models
Author(s):WOŹNIAK, TomaszDate:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:Recent economic developments have shown the importance of spillover and contagion effects in financial markets. Such effects are not limited to relations between the levels of financial variables but also impact on their ...
Title:Testing Causality between Two Vectors in Multivariate GARCH Models
Author(s):WOŹNIAK, TomaszDate:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:Spillover and contagion effects have gained significant interest in the recent years of financial crisis. Attention has not only been directed to relations between returns of financial variables, but to spillovers in risk ...
Title:An Empirical Study of Credit Shock Transmission in a Small Open Economy
Author(s):BEDOCK, Nathan; STEVANOVIC, DaliborDate:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:In this paper we identify and measure the effects of credit shocks in a small open economy. To incorporate information from a large number of economic and financial indicators we use the structural factor-augmented VARMA ...
Title:Reaction to Technology Shocks in Markov-Switchings Structural VARs: Identification via heteroskedasticity
Author(s):NETŠUNAJEV, AlekseiDate:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:The paper reconsiders the conflicting results in the debate connected to the effects of technology shocks on hours worked in the bivariate system. Given major dissatisfaction with the just-identifying long-run restrictions, ...
Title:The Multiscale Causal Dynamics of Foreign Exchange Markets
Author(s):BEKIROS, Stelios D.; MARCELLINO, MassimilianoDate:2011Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:This paper relies on wavelet multiresolution analysis to capture the dependence structure of currency markets and reveal the complex dynamics across different timescales. It investigates the nature and direction of causal ...
Title:Forecasting Contemporaneous Aggregates with Stochastic Aggregation Weights
Author(s):BRUEGGEMANN, Ralf; LUETKEPOHL, HelmutDate:2011Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:Many contemporaneously aggregated variables have stochasticaggregation weights. We compare different forecasts for such variables including univariate forecasts of the aggregate, a multivariate forecast of the aggregate ...
Title:Acquisition of Information and Share Prices: An Empirical Investigation of Cognitive Dissonance
Author(s):ARGENTESI, Elena; LUETKEPOHL, Helmut; MOTTA, MassimoDate:2010Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This paper deals with the determinants of agents' acquisition of information. Our econometric evidence shows that the general index of Italian share-prices and the series of Italy's financial newspaper sales are cointegrated, ...
Title:Empirical Simultaneous Confidence Regions for Path-Forecasts
Author(s):JORDÀ, Òscar; KNÜPPEL, Malte; MARCELLINO, MassimilianoDate:2010Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:Measuring and displaying uncertainty around path-forecasts, i.e. forecasts made in period T about the expected trajectory of a random variable in periods T+1 to T+H is a key ingredient for decision making under uncertainty. ...
Title:Estimation Methods Comparison of SVAR Model with the Mixture of Two Normal Distributions – Monte Carlo Analysis
Author(s):MACIEJOWSKA, KatarzynaDate:2010Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:This paper addresses the issue of obtaining maximum likelihood estimates of parameters for structural VAR models with a mixture of distributions. Hence the problem does not have a closed form solution, numerical optimization ...
Title:Forecasting Nonlinear Aggregates and Aggregates with Time-varying Weights
Author(s):LUETKEPOHL, HelmutDate:2010Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:Despite the fact that many aggregates are nonlinear functions and the aggregation weights of many macroeconomic aggregates are timevarying, much of the literature on forecasting aggregates considers the case of linear ...
Title:Forecasting with Factor-augmented Error Correction Models
Author(s):MASTEN, Igor; BANERJEE, Anindya; MARCELLINO, MassimilianoDate:2009Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:As a generalization of the factor-augmented VAR (FAVAR) and of the Error Correction Model (ECM), Banerjee and Marcellino (2009) introduced the Factor-augmented Error Correction Model (FECM). The FECM combines error-correction, ...
Title:Pre-Announcement and Timing. The Effects of a Government Expenditure Shock
Author(s):KRIWOLUZKY, AlexanderDate:2009Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:This paper investigates the effect of a government expenditure shock on consumption and real wages. I identify the shock by exploiting its pre-announced nature, i.e. different signs of the responses in investment, hours ...
Title:Generalized Least Squares Estimation for Cointegration Parameters Under Conditional Heteroskedasticity
Author(s):HERWARTZ, Helmut; LUETKEPOHL, HelmutDate:2009Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:In the presence of generalized conditional heteroscedasticity (GARCH) in the residuals of a vector error correction model (VECM), maximum likelihood (ML) estimation of the cointegration parameters has been shown to be ...
Title:Forecasting Aggregated Time Series Variables: A Survey
Author(s):LUETKEPOHL, HelmutDate:2009Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:Aggregated times series variables can be forecasted in different ways. For example, they may be forecasted on the basis of the aggregate series or forecasts of disaggregated variables may be obtained first and then these ...
Title:Structural Vector Autoregressions with Markov Switching
Author(s):LANNE, Markku; LUETKEPOHL, Helmut; MACIEJOWSKA, KatarzynaDate:2009Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:Abstract. It is argued that in structural vector autoregressive (SVAR) analysis a Markov regime switching (MS) property can be exploited to identify shocks if the reduced form error covariance matrix varies across regimes. ...
Title:Forecasting Levels of log Variables in Vector Autoregressions
Author(s):BARDSEN, Gunnar; LUETKEPOHL, HelmutDate:2009Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:Sometimes forecasts of the original variable are of interest although a variable appears in logarithms (logs) in a system of time series. In that case converting the forecast for the log of the variable to a naive forecast ...
Title:Pre-announcement and Timing - The Effects of a Government Expenditure Shock
Author(s):KRIWOLUZKY, AlexanderDate:2009Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:This paper investigates the effect of a government expenditure shock on consumption and real wages. I identify the shock by exploiting its pre-announced nature, i.e. different signs of the responses in investment, hours ...
Title:Testing for the Cointegrating Rank of a Vector Autoregressive Process with Uncertain Deterministic Trend Term
Author(s):DEMETRESCU, Matei; LUETKEPOHL, Helmut; SAIKKONEN, PenttiDate:2008Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:When applying Johansen's procedure for determining the coin-
tegrating rank to systems of variables with linear deterministic trends, there
are two possible tests to choose from. One test allows for a trend in ...
Title:Stock Prices and Economic Fluctuations: A Markov Switching Structural Vector Autoregressive Analysis
Author(s):LANNE, Markku; LUETKEPOHL, HelmutDate:2008Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:The role of expectations for economic fluctuations has received
considerable attention in recent business cycle analysis. We exploit Markov
regime switching models to identify shocks in cointegrated structural vector ...