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Browsing Working Papers by Subject "C12"
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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:Choice of Sample Split in Out-of-Sample Forecast Evaluation
Author(s):HANSEN, Peter Reinhard; TIMMERMANN, AllanDate:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:Out-of-sample tests of forecast performance depend on how a given data set is split into estimation and evaluation periods, yet no guidance exists on how to choose the split point. Empirical forecast evaluation results can ...
Title:How to Attain Minimax Risk with Applications to Distribution-Free Nonparametric Estimation and Testing
Author(s):SCHLAG, Karl H.Date:2007Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:We show how to a derive exact distribution-free nonparametric results for minimax risk when underlying random variables have known finite bounds and means are the only parameters of interest. Transform the data with a ...
Title:Volatility, Financial Development and the Natural Resource Curse
Author(s):VAN DER PLOEG, Frederick; POELHEKKE, StevenDate:2007Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:Cross-country evidence is presented on resource dependence and the link between volatility and
growth. First, growth depends negatively on volatility of unanticipated output growth
independent of initial income per capita, ...