Prasad Bidarkota                                                                        January 10, 2005

 

Topics in Econometrics (ECO 7429)

Ref. No. 18974

Department of Economics, Florida International University (University Park)

Spring Semester 2005

 

 

Outline of Topics

 

  1. Introduction to Difference Equations and Lag Operators.

 

Further References:

Walter Enders (2004),

                        Applied Econometric Time Series, John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Chapter 1: Difference Equations, p. 1-47.

 

 

  1. Stationary Time Series Models.

 

Further References:

Walter Enders (2004),

                        Applied Econometric Time Series, John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Chapter 2: Stationary Time Series Models, p. 48-107.

 

 

  1. Maximum Likelihood Estimation.

 

Further References:

Andrew C. Harvey (1991),

                        An Econometric Analysis of Time Series, 2nd Edition,

 Cambridge University Press.

Chapter 3: The Method of Maximum Likelihood, p. 84-121.

 

 

  1. Numerical Optimization.

 

Further References:

Andrew C. Harvey (1991),

                        An Econometric Analysis of Time Series, 2nd Edition,

 Cambridge University Press.

Chapter 4: Numerical Optimization, p. 122-145.

 

 

  1. Advanced Topics in Time Series.

 

See the accompanying list of readings.


 

List of Readings

 

 

I. AUTOREGRESSIVE CONDITIONAL HETEROSKEDASTICITY

ARCH AND GARCH CLASS OF MODELS

 

Introduction

 

Enders, W., Applied Econometric Time Series, John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (1995). (Chapter 3)

 

Hamilton, James D., Time Series Analysis, Princeton University Press (1994), Princeton, New Jersey. (Chapter 21)

 

Engle, R.F. (1982), ‘Autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity with estimates of the variance of United Kingdom inflation,’ Econometrica, Vol.50, No.4, 987-1007.

 

 

Extensions of the Basic Model

 

1. Generalized Autoregressive Conditional Heteroskedasticity (GARCH) Model

 

Bollerslev, T. (1986), ‘Generalized autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity,’ Journal of Econometrics, 31, 307-327.

 

Lumsdaine, R.L. (1996), ‘Consistency and asymptotic normality of the quasi-maximum likelihood estimator in IGARCH(1,1) and covariance stationary GARCH(1,1) models,” Econometrica, Vol.64, No.3, 575-96.

 

Lumsdaine, R.L. (1995), ‘Finite-sample properties of the maximum likelihood estimator in GARCH(1,1) and IGARCH(1,1) models: a Monte Carlo investigation,’ Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, Vol.13, No.1, 1-10.

 

Nelson, D.B. (1990), ‘Stationarity and persistence in the GARCH(1,1) model,’ Econometric Theory, 6, 318-334.

 

 

2. Exponential Generalized Autoregressive Conditional Heteroskedasticity (EGARCH) Model

 

Nelson, D.B. (1990), ‘Conditional heteroskedasticity in asset returns: a new approach,’ Econometrica, Vol.59, No.2, 347-370.

3. Multivariate GARCH Models

 

Bollerslev, T. and R.F. Engle (1993), ‘Common persistence in conditional variances,’ Econometrica, Vol.61, No.1, 167-186.

 

 

Applications

 

1. Univariate Models of Macroeconomic Time Series Data

 

Bollerslev, T. (1987), ‘A conditionally heteroskedastic time series model for speculative prices and rates of return,’ The Review of Economics and Statistics,  542-547.

 

Cosimano, T.F. and D.W. Jansen (1988), ‘Estimates of the variance of U.S. inflation based upon the ARCH model,’ Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, Vol.20, No.3, 409-421.

 

Engle, R.F. (1983), ‘Estimates of the variance of U.S. inflation based upon the ARCH model,’ Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, Vol.15, No.3, 286-301.

 

French, K.R., G.W. Schwert, and R.F. Stambaugh (1987), ‘Expected stock returns and volatility, Journal of Financial Economics, 19, 3-29.

 

Pagan, A. and G.W. Schwert (1990), ‘Alternative models for conditional stock volatility,’ Journal of Econometrics, 45, 267-290.

 

 

2. Survey Article

 

Bollerslev, T., R.Y. Chou, and K.F. Kroner (1992), ‘ARCH modeling in finance: A review of the theory and empirical evidence,’ Journal of Econometrics, 52, 5-59.

 

 

3. Regression with GARCH Errors

 

Hansen, B.E. (1995), ‘Regression with nonstationary volatility,’ Econometrica, Vol.63, No.5, 1113-1132.

 

 

4. State Space Models and ARCH

 

Look under State Space Models – State Space Models and ARCH

 

 

Structural Changes in Volatility

 

Lamoureux, C.G. and W.D. Lastrapes (1990), ‘Persistence in variance, structural change, and the GARCH model, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, Vol.8, No.2, 225-234.

 

Simonato, J-G (1992), Estimation of GARCH process in the presence of structural change, Economics Letters, 40, 155-158.

 

 

Other Models for Capturing Conditional Heteroskedasticity

 

1. ARCH and Regime Switching Models

 

Look under Markov Switching Models – ARCH and Regime Switching Models

 

 

2. Stochastic Volatility Models

 

Danielsson, J. (1994), ‘Stochastic volatility in asset prices: estimation with simulated maximum likelihood,’ Journal of Econometrics, 64, 375-400.

 

Sandmann, G. and S.J. Koopman (1998), ‘Estimation of stochastic volatility models via Monte Carlo maximum likelihood,’ Journal of Econometrics, 87, 271-301.

 

 

3. Miscellaneous Volatility Models

 

Brenner, R.J., R.H. Harjes, and K.F. Kroner (1996), Another look at models of the short-term interest rate,” Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Vol.31, No.1, 85-107.

 

Brunner, A.D. and G.D. Hess (1993), ‘Are higher levels of inflation less predictable? A state-dependent conditional heteroskedasticity approach,’ Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, Vol.11, No.2, 187-197.

 

Ding, Z., C.W.J. Granger, and R.F. Engle (1993), ‘A long memory property of stock market returns and a new model,’ Journal of Empirical Finance, 1, 83-106.

 

Engle, R.F. and G. Gonzalez-Rivera (1991), “Semiparametric ARCH models,” Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, Vol.9, No.4, 345-359.

 

 

Hypothesis Testing

 

Bera, A.K. and M.L. Higgins (1992), “A test for conditional heteroskedasticity in time series models,” Journal of Time Series Analysis, Vol.13, No.6, 501-519.

 

Demos, A. and E. Sentana (1998), ‘Testing for GARCH effects: a one-sided approach,’ Journal of Econometrics, 86, 97-127.

 

McLeod, A.I. and W.K. Li (1983), ‘Diagnostic checking ARMA time series models using squared-residual autocorrelations,’ Journal of Time Series Analysis, Vol.4, No.4, 269-273.

 

Model Building

 

Diebold, F.X. and J.A. Lopez (1995), ‘Modeling volatility dynamics,’ in K. Hoover (ed.), Macroeconometrics: Developments, Tensions and Prospects, Boston: Kluwer Academic Press, 427-72.

 

Weiss, A.A. (1984), ‘ARMA models with ARCH errors,’ Journal of Time Series Analysis, Vol.5, No.2, 129-143.

 

 

Volatility Forecasting

 

P.F. Christofferson and F.X. Diebold (1997), ‘How relevant is volatility forecasting for financial risk management?’ Working Paper, Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania.

 

Engle, R.F. and A.J. Patton (2001), ‘What good is a volatility model?’ Working Paper, Department of Economics, University of California at San Diego.

 

 

New Developments

 

Andersen, T.G., T. Bollerslev, F.X. Diebold, and P. Labys (2000), ‘The distribution of realized exchange rate volatility,’ Working Paper, Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania (forthcoming JASA).

 

Andersen, T.G., T. Bollerslev, F.X. Diebold, and P. Labys (2001), ‘Modeling and forecasting realized volatility,’ Working Paper, Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania (forthcoming JFE).

 

 

Software

 

ARCH Software at UCSD Website

http://www.econ.ucsd.edu/software/ARCH.html

 

Brooks, C., S.P. Burke, and G. Persand (2001), ‘Benchmarks and the accuracy of GARCH model estimation,’ International Journal of Forecasting 17, 45-56.

 

 

Homework Assignments

 

Simulations of ARCH processes

Enders, Ch.3, Questions

 


II. NON-LINEAR MODELS

 

Threshold Autoregressions: Introduction

 

Tong, Howell, Non-Linear Time Series: A Dynamical System Approach, Oxford University Press (1990), New York.

 

Tong, H., and K.S. Lim, “Threshold autoregression, limit cycles and cyclical data,” Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series B (1980), 245-292.

 

Chan, K.S. and H. Tong, “On estimating thresholds in autoregressive models,” Journal of Time Series Analysis, Vol.7, No.3 (1986), 179-190.

 

Tsay, R.S., “Detecting and modeling nonlinearity in univariate time series analysis,” Statistica Sinica, 1(1991), 431-451.

 

Granger, C.W.J. and T. Terasvirta, Modeling Nonlinear Economic Relationships, Oxford university Press (1993), New York.

 

 

Applications

 

Tsay, R.S., “Non-linear time series analysis of blowfly population,” Journal of Time Series Analysis, Vol.9, No.3 (1988), 247-63.

 

Potter, S.M., “A non-linear approach to U.S. GNP,” Journal of Applied Econometrics, Vol.10 (1995), 109-25.

 

Beaudry, P. and G. Koop, “Do recessions permanently change output?” Journal of Monetary Economics, 31 (1993), 149-63.

 

Elwood, S.K., “Is the persistence of shocks to output asymmetric,” Journal of Monetary Economics 41 (1998), 411-426.

 

Hess, G.D. and S. Iwata, “Asymmetric persistence in GDP? A deeper look at depth,” Journal of Monetary Economics, 40 (1997), 535-554.

 

 

Non-Parametric Asymmetry

 

Blanchard, O.J. and M.W. Watson, “Are business cycles all alike?” The American Business Cycle: Continuity and Change, R.J. Gordon (ed.), University of Chicago Press (1986), 123-79.

 

DeLong, J.B. and L.H. Summers, “Are business cycles symmetrical?” The American Business Cycle: Continuity and Change, R.J. Gordon (ed.), University of Chicago Press (1986), 166-79.

 

Scheinkman, J.A. and B.LeBaron, “Non-linear dynamics and GNP data,” Economic Complexity: Chaos, Sunspots, Bubbles, and Non-linearity, W.A. Barnett et al. (eds.), Cambridge University Press (1989), 213-27.

 

Brunner, A.D., “On the dynamic properties of asymmetric models of real GNP,” The Review of Economics and Statistics, 79 (1997), 321-326.

 

Brunner, A.D., “Conditional asymmetries in real GNP: A seminonparametric approach,” Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, Vol.10, No.1 (1992), 65-72.

 

 

Other Non-Linear Models

 

Brannas, K. and J.G. De Gooijer, “Autoregressive-asymmetric moving average models for business cycle data,” Journal of Forecasting, Vol.13 (1994), 529-544.

 

Brannas, K. and H. Ohlsson, “Asymmetric time series and temporal aggregation,” The Review of Economics and Statistics, 81 (1999), 341-344.

 

Neftci, S.N., “Are economic time series asymmetric over the business cycle?” Journal of Political Economy, Vol.92, No.2 (1984), 307-28.

 

Falk, B., “Further evidence on the asymmetric behavior of economic time series over the business cycle,” Journal of Political Economy, Vol.94, No.5 (1986), 1096-1109.

 

Sichel, D.E., “Are business cycles asymmetric? A correction,” Journal of Political Economy, Vol.97, No.5 (1989), 1255-60.

 

Rothman, P., “Further evidence on the asymmetric behavior of unemployment rates over the business cycle,” Journal of Macroeconomics, Vol.13, No.2 (1991), 291-298.

 

Pesaran, M.H. and S.M. Potter, “A floor and ceiling model of US output,” Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 21 (1997), 661-695.

 

Ramsey, J.B. and P. Rothman, “Time irreversibility and business cycle asymmetry,” Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking, 28 (1996), 1-21.

 


III. MARKOV SWITCHING MODELS

 

Introduction

 

Hamilton, J.D., ‘A new approach to the economic analysis of nonstationary time series and the business cycle,’ Econometrica, Vol.57, No.2 (1989), 357-84.

 

 

Bivariate Models

 

Phillips, K.L., ‘A two-country model of stochastic output with changes in regime,’ Journal of International Economics, 31 (1991), 121-142.

 

 

Extensions of the Basic Model

 

Lam, P-s., ‘The Hamilton model with a general autoregressive component: Estimation and comparison with other models of economic time series,’ Journal of Monetary Economics, 26 (1990), 409-32.

 

Durland, J.M. and T.H. McCurdy, ‘Duration-dependent transitions in a Markov model of US GNP growth,’ Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, Vol.12, No.3 (1994), 279-288.

 

 

Applications

 

Cecchetti, S.G., P-s. Lam, and N.C. Mark, 1990, Mean reversion in equilibrium asset prices, The American Economic Review 80, 398-418.

 

Cecchetti, S.G., P-s. Lam, and N.C. Mark, 1993, The equity premium and the risk-free rate, Journal of Monetary Economics 31, 21-45.

 

Engel, C. and J.D. Hamilton (1990), ‘Long swings in the dollar: Are they in the data and do markets know it?’ The American Economic Review 80, No.4, 689-713.

 

Evans, M. and K. Lewis, ‘Do expected shifts in inflation affect estimates of the long-run Fisher relation?’ Journal of Finance, Vol.L, No.1 (1995), 225-253.

 

Garcia, R. and P. Perron, ‘An analysis of the real interest rate under regime shifts,’ The Review of Economics and Statistics (1996), 111-123.

 

Hamilton, J.D., ‘Rational expectations econometric analysis of changes in regime: An investigation of the term structure of interest rates,’ Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 12 (1988), 385-423.

 

Raymond, J.E. and R.W. Rich (1997), “Oil and the macroeconomy: a Markov state-switching approach,” Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking, Vol.29, No.2, 193-213.

 

 


(G)ARCH and Regime Switching Models

 

Cai, J., ‘A Markov model of switching-regime ARCH,’ Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, Vol.12, No.3 (1994), 309-316.

 

Gray, Stephen F. (1996), “Modeling the conditional distribution of interest rates as a regime-switching process,” Journal of Financial Economics, 42, 27-62.

 

Hamilton, J.D. and R. Susmel, ‘Autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity and changes in regime,’ Journal of Econometrics, 64 (1994), 307-333.

 

Kim, C-j., ‘Unobserved-component time series models with Markov switching heteroskedasticity: Changes in regime and the link between inflation rates and inflation uncertainty,’ Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, Vol.11, No.3 (1993), 341-349.

 

 

State Space Models and Regime Switching

 

Look under Non-Gaussian Errors – State Space Models and Regime Switching

 

 

Hypothesis Testing

 

Garcia, R. (1998), ‘Asymptotic null distribution of the likelihood ratio test in Markov switching models,’ International Economic Review 39, No.3, 763-788.

 

Ghysels, E., R.E. McCulloch, and R.S. Tsay (1998), ‘Bayesian inference for periodic regime-switching models,’ Journal of Applied Econometrics 13, 129-143.

 

Hansen, B.E. (1992), ‘The likelihood ratio test under nonstandard conditions: Testing the Markov switching model of GNP,’ Journal of Applied Econometrics, Vol.7 (supplement), S61-S82.

 

Hansen, B.E. (1996), ‘Inference when a nuisance parameter is not identified under the null hypothesis,’ Econometrica 64, No.2, 413-430.


IV. STATE SPACE MODELS

 

Introduction

 

Harvey, Andrew C., Forecasting, Structural Time Series Models and the Kalman Filter, Cambridge University Press (1989), New York. (Chapter 3)

 

Hamilton, James D., Time Series Analysis, Princeton University Press (1994), Princeton, New Jersey. (Chapter 13)

 

 

Applications

 

1. Business Cycles

 

Clark, P. K. (1987), “The cyclical component of U.S. economic activity,” Quarterly Journal of Economics, 797-814.

 

Gregory, A.W., A.C. Head, and J. Raynauld (1997), “Measuring world business cycles,” International Economic Review, Vol.38, No.3, 677-701.

 

Harvey, A. C. (1985), “Trends and cycles in macroeconomic time series,” Journal of Business and Economic Statistics,” Vol.3, No.3, 216-27.

 

Harvey, A. C. and A. Jaeger (1993), “Detrending, stylized facts and the business cycle,” Journal of Applied Econometrics,” 231-247.

 

Nelson, C.R. (1988), “Spurious trend and cycle in the state space decomposition of a time series with a unit root,” Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 12, 475-488.

 

Watson, M. (1986), “Univariate detrending methods with stochastic trends,” Journal of Monetary Economics, 18, 49-75.

 

 

2. Univariate Models of Macroeconomic Time Series Data

 

Antonic, M. (1986), “High and volatile real interest rates: Where does the Fed fit in?” Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking, Vol.18, No.1, 18-27.

 

Burmeister, E. and K.D. Wall (1982), “Kalman filtering estimation of unobserved rational expectations with an application to the German hyperinflation,” Journal of Econometrics, 20, 255-284.

 

Burmeister, E., K.D. Wall and J.D. Hamilton (1986), ‘Estimation of unobserved monthly inflation using Kalman filtering,’ Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, Vol.4, No.2, 147-160.

 

Garbade, K. and P. Wachtel (1978), “Time variation in the relationship between inflation and interest rates,” Journal of Monetary Economics, 4, 755-765.

 

Hamilton, J.D. (1985), ‘Uncovering financial market expectations of inflation,’ Journal of Political Economy, Vol.93, No.6, 1224-1241.

 

 

 

3. Other Applications

 

Elwood, S.R. (1998), “Testing for excess sensitivity in consumption: a state-space / unobserved components approach,” Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking, Vol.30, No.1, 64-82.

 

Wolff, C.C.P. (1987), “Forward foreign exchange rates, expected spot rates, and premia: a signal-extraction approach,” The Journal of Finance, Vol.XLII, No.2, 395-406.

 

 

Modifications & Specializations of the Basic Model

 

Doran, H.E. (1992), “Constraining Kalman filter and smoothing estimates to satisfy time-varying restrictions,” The Review of Economics and Statistics (1992), 568-572.

 

 

State Space Models and Regime Switching

 

Look under Non-Gaussian Errors – State Space Models and Regime Switching

 

 

State Space Models and ARCH

 

Harvey, A., E. Ruiz, and E. Sentana (1992), ‘Unobserved component time series models with ARCH disturbances,’ Journal of Econometrics, 52, 129-157.

 

 


V. LONG MEMORY MODELS

FRACTIONALLY INTEGRATED CLASS OF MODELS

 

Introduction

 

Baillie, R. T. (1996), “Long memory processes and fractional integration in econometrics,” Journal of Econometrics (Annals), Vol.73, No.1, 5-59.

 

Granger, C. W. J. and R. Joyeux (1980), “An introduction to long memory time series models and fractional differencing,” Journal of Time Series Analysis, Vol.1, No.1, 15-29.

 

Hosking, J. R. M. (1981), “Fractional Differencing,” Biometrika, 68, 1, 165-76.

 

 

Extensions of the Basic Model

 

1. Fractionally Integrated Generalized Autoregressive Conditional Heteroskedasticity (FIGARCH) Model

 

 

Applications

 

1. Stock Returns Data

Crato, N.,1994, “Some international evidence regarding the stochastic memory of stock returns,” Applied Financial Economics 4, 33-9.

 

Lo, A., 1991, “Long-term memory in stock market prices,” Econometrica 59, 1279-313.

 

2. Business Cycles

 

Diebold, F. X. and G. D. Rudebusch (1989), “Long memory and persistence in aggregate output,” Journal of Monetary Economics, 24, 189-209.

 

Sowell, F., “Modeling long-run behavior with the fractional ARIMA model,” Journal of Monetary Economics, 29 (1992a), 277-302.

 

 

3. Univariate Models of Macroeconomic Time Series Data

 

Baillie, R.T., C-f. Chung, and M.A. Tieslau (1996), ‘Analysing inflation by the fractionally integrated ARFIMA-GARCH model,’ Journal of Applied Econometrics, 11, 23-40.

 

Cheung, Y-W. (1993), “Long memory in foreign-exchange rates,” Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, Vol.11, No.1, 93-101.

 

Crato, N. and P. Rothman (1994), “Fractional integration analysis of long-run behavior of U.S. macroeconomic time series,” Economics Letters, 45, 287-91.

 

Hassler, U. and J. Wolters (1995), Long memory in inflation rates: international evidence,” Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, Vol.13, No.1, 37-45.

 

 

4. Other Applications

 

Diebold, F. X. and G. D. Rudebusch (1991), “Is consumption too smooth? Long memory and the Deaton paradox,” The Review of Economics and Statistics 73, 1-9.

 

Hosking, J.R.M., “Modeling persistence in hydrological time series using fractional differencing,” Water Resources Research, Vol.20, No.12 (1984), 1898-1908.

 

 

5. Long Memory and Aggregation

 

Chambers, M.J. (1998), “Long memory and aggregation in macroeconomic time series,” International Economic Review, Vol.39, No.4, 1053-1072.

 

 

Hypothesis Testing

 

Cheung, Y-W. (1993), “Tests for fractional integration: a Monte Carlo investigation,” Journal of Time Series Analysis, Vol.14, No.4, 331-345.

 

 

Estimation

 

Agiakloglou, C., P. Newbold and M. Wohar (1993), “Bias in an estimator of the fractional difference parameter,” Journal of Time Series Analysis, Vol.14, No.3, 235-46.

 

Cheung, Y-w. and F. X. Diebold (1994), “On maximum likelihood estimation of the differencing parameter of fractionally-integrated noise with unknown mean,” Journal of Econometrics, 62, 301-16.

 

Chung, C. F. (1994), “A note on calculating the autocovariances of the fractionally integrated ARMA models,” Economics Letters, 45, 293-97.

 

Geweke, J. and S. Porter-Hudak (1983), “The estimation and application of long memory time series models,” Journal of Time Series Analysis, Vol.4, No.4, 221-238.

 

Gonzalo, J. and C.W. Granger, “Estimation of common long-memory components in cointegrated systems,” Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, Vol.13, No.1, 27-35.

 

Li, W.K. and A.I. McLeod, “Fractional time series modeling,” Biometrika, 73, 1 (1986), 217-21.

 

Sowell, F., “Maximum likelihood estimation of stationary univariate fractionally integrated time series models,” Journal of Econometrics, 53 (1992b) 165-88.


VI. NON-GAUSSIAN ERRORS

 

 

1. Basic Non-Gaussian Time Series Models

Akgiray, V. and G.G. Booth, 1988, “The stable-law model of stock returns,” Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, Vol.6, No.1, 51-57.

 

Boothe, P. and D. Glassman (1987), “The statistical distribution of exchange rates: empirical evidence and economic implications,” Journal of International Economics, 22, 297-319.

 

So, Jacky C., 1987, “The sub-Gaussian distribution of currency futures: stable Paretian or nonstationary?” The Review of Economics and Statistics 69, 100-107.

 

 

2. Non-Gaussian GARCH Models

 

de Vries, C.G., 1991, “On the relation between GARCH and stable processes,” Journal of Econometrics 48, 313-24.

 

Ghose, D. and K.F. Kroner, 1995, “The relationship between GARCH and symmetric stable processes: Finding the source of fat tails in financial data,” Journal of Empirical Finance 2, 225-51.

 

Liu, S.M. and B.W. Brorsen (1995), ‘Maximum likelihood estimation of a GARCH-stable model,’ Journal of Applied Econometrics, 10, 273-285.

 

McCulloch, J. H. (1985), ‘Interest-risk sensitive deposit insurance premia: stable ACH estimates,’ Journal of Banking and Finance, 9, 137-56.

 

 

3. Non-Gaussian ARFIMA Models

 

Kokoszka, P.S. and M.S. Taqqu, “Fractional ARIMA with stable innovations,” Stochastic Processes and their Applications, 60 (1995), 19-47.

 

Kokoszka, P.S. and M.S. Taqqu (1996), “Infinite variance stable moving averages with long memory,” Journal of Econometrics, 73, 79-99.

 

4. Non-Gaussian ARFIMA-GARCH Models

 

Baillie, R.T., C-f. Chung and M.A. Tieslau (1996), ‘Analysing inflation by the fractionally integrated ARFIMA-GARCH model,’ Journal of Applied Econometrics, 11, 23-40.

 

 

5. Non-Gaussian Non-Linear ARFIMA-GARCH Models

 

Bidarkota, P.V., Asymmetries in the Conditional Mean Dynamics of Real GNP: Robust Evidence, The Review of Economics and Statistics,          Vol.82, Issue 1 (2000), 153-157.

 

Bidarkota, P.V., Sectoral Investigation of Asymmetries in the Conditional Mean Dynamics of the Real U.S. GDP, Studies in Non-Linear Dynamics and Econometrics, Vol.3, No.4 (1999), 191-200.

 

 

6. Non-Gaussian State Space Models

 

Introduction

 

Harvey, Andrew C., Forecasting, Structural Time Series Models and the Kalman Filter, Cambridge University Press (1989), New York. (Section 3.7)

 

Kitagawa, G. (1987), ‘Non-Gaussian state space modeling of nonstationary time series,’ Journal of the American Statistical Association, Vol.82, No.400,1032-63.

 

Improvements & Extensions

 

Hodges, P.E. and D.F. Hale (1993), ‘A computational method for estimating densities of non-Gaussian nonstationary univariate time series,’ Journal of Time Series Analysis, Vol.14, No.2, 163-178.

 

Kitagawa, G. (1996), ‘Monte Carlo filter and smoother for non-Gaussian nonlinear state space models,’ Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, Vol.5, No.1, 1-25.

 

Kitagawa, G. and W. Gersch (1996), ‘Smoothness priors analysis of time series,’ Lecture Notes in Statistics 116, Springer-Verlag, New York.

 

Le Breton, A. and M. Musiela (1993), ‘A generalization of the Kalman filter to models with infinite variance,’ Stochastic Processes and their Applications, 47, 75-94.

 

Rutkowski, M. (1994), ‘Optimal linear filtering and smoothing for a discrete-time stable linear model,’ Journal of Multivariate Analysis, 50, 68-92.

 

Sorenson, H.W. and D.L. Alspach (1971), ‘Recursive Bayesian estimation using Gaussian sums,’ Automatica, 7, 465-479.

 

Stuck, B.W. (1978), ‘Minimum error dispersion linear filtering of scalar symmetric stable processes,’ IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control AC-23, 507-509.

 

Applications

 

Bidarkota, P.V., Alternative Regime Switching Models for Forecasting Inflation, Journal of Forecasting (forthcoming).

 

Bidarkota, P.V. and J. H. McCulloch, “Optimal Univariate Inflation Forecasting with Symmetric Stable Shocks, Journal of Applied Econometrics, Vol.13, No.6 (1998), 659-670.

 

 

7. State Space Models and Regime Switching

 

Chauvet, M. (1998), ‘An econometric characterization of business cycle dynamics with a factor structure and regime switching,’ International Economic Review, Vol.39, No.4, 969-996.

 

Kim, C-j., ‘Dynamic linear models with Markov-switching,’ Journal of Econometrics, 60 (1994), 1-22.

 

Kim, C-J. and C.R. Nelson (1998), ‘Business cycle turning points, a new coincident index, and tests of duration dependence based on a dynamic factor model with regime switching,’ The Review of Economics and Statistics, 188-201.

 

Kim, M-J. and J-S. Yoo (1995), ‘New index of coincident indicators: A multivariate Markov switching factor model approach,’ Journal of Monetary Economics 36, 607-630.

 

Shephard, N. (1994), ‘Partial non-Gaussian state space,’ Biometrika 81, 1, 115-131.

 

Carter, C.K. and R. Kohn (1994), ‘On Gibbs sampling for state space models,’ Biometrika 81, 3, 541-553.

 

 


VII. FUTURE DIRECTIONS

 

Lo, Andrew W. (2000), “Finance: a selective survey,” Journal of the American Statistical Association, Vol.95, No.450, 629-635.

 

Solo, V. (2000), “The end of time series,” Journal of the American Statistical Association, Vol.95, No.452, 1346-1349.

 

Tsay, Ruey S. (2000), “Time Series and Forecasting: Brief History and Future Research,” Journal of the American Statistical Association, Vol.95, No.450, 638-643.