EconometricsPub Date : 2022-07-12DOI: 10.3390/econometrics10030028
Antonio Pacifico
{"title":"Structural Compressed Panel VAR with Stochastic Volatility: A Robust Bayesian Model Averaging Procedure","authors":"Antonio Pacifico","doi":"10.3390/econometrics10030028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3390/econometrics10030028","url":null,"abstract":"This paper improves the existing literature on the shrinkage of high dimensional model and parameter spaces through Bayesian priors and Markov Chains algorithms. A hierarchical semiparametric Bayes approach is developed to overtake limits and misspecificity involved in compressed regression models. Methodologically, a multicountry large structural Panel Vector Autoregression is compressed through a robust model averaging to select the best subset across all possible combinations of predictors, where robust stands for the use of mixtures of proper conjugate priors. Concerning dynamic analysis, volatility changes and conditional density forecasts are addressed ensuring accurate predictive performance and capability. An empirical and simulated experiment are developed to highlight and discuss the functioning of the estimating procedure and forecasting accuracy.","PeriodicalId":11499,"journal":{"name":"Econometrics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-07-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44999015","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
EconometricsPub Date : 2022-06-15DOI: 10.3390/econometrics10020027
Diogo de Prince, Emerson Fernandes Marçal, Pedro L. Valls Pereira
{"title":"Forecasting Industrial Production Using Its Aggregated and Disaggregated Series or a Combination of Both: Evidence from One Emerging Market Economy","authors":"Diogo de Prince, Emerson Fernandes Marçal, Pedro L. Valls Pereira","doi":"10.3390/econometrics10020027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3390/econometrics10020027","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we address whether using a disaggregated series or combining an aggregated and disaggregated series improves the forecasting of the aggregated series compared to using the aggregated series alone. We used econometric techniques, such as the weighted lag adaptive least absolute shrinkage and selection operator, and Exponential Triple Smoothing (ETS), as well as the Autometrics algorithm to forecast industrial production in Brazil one to twelve months ahead. This is the novelty of the work, as is the use of the average multi-horizon Superior Predictive Ability (aSPA) and uniform multi-horizon Superior Predictive Ability (uSPA) tests, used to select the best forecasting model by combining different horizons. Our sample covers the period from January 2002 to February 2020. The disaggregated ETS has a better forecast performance when forecasting horizons that are more than one month ahead using the mean square error, and the aggregated ETS has better forecasting ability for horizons equal to 1 and 2. The aggregated ETS forecast does not contain information that is useful for forecasting industrial production in Brazil beyond the information already found in the disaggregated ETS forecast between two and twelve months ahead.","PeriodicalId":11499,"journal":{"name":"Econometrics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49083666","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
EconometricsPub Date : 2022-06-02DOI: 10.3390/econometrics10020026
E. Mahdi, Ameena Al-Abdulla
{"title":"Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic News on the Cryptocurrency Market and Gold Returns: A Quantile-on-Quantile Regression Analysis","authors":"E. Mahdi, Ameena Al-Abdulla","doi":"10.3390/econometrics10020026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3390/econometrics10020026","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we investigate the relationship between the RavenPack news-based index associated with coronavirus outbreak (Panic, Sentiment, Infodemic, and Media Coverage) and returns of two commodities—Bitcoin and gold. We utilized the novel quantile-on-quantile approach to uncover the dependence between the news-based index associated with coronavirus outbreak and Bitcoin and gold returns. Our results reveal that the daily levels of positive and negative shocks in indices induced by pandemic news asymmetrically affect the Bearish and Bullish on Bitcoin and gold, and fear sentiment induced by coronavirus-related news plays a major role in driving the values of Bitcoin and gold more than other indices. We find that both commodities, Bitcoin and gold, can serve as a hedge against pandemic-related news. In general, the COVID-19 pandemic-related news encourages people to invest in gold and Bitcoin.","PeriodicalId":11499,"journal":{"name":"Econometrics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-06-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42419396","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
EconometricsPub Date : 2022-06-01DOI: 10.15611/eada.2022.2.01
M. Salamaga
{"title":"Comparative Analysis of FDI Duration in the Visegrád Group Member States, Using Mortality Tables: A Sectoral Approach","authors":"M. Salamaga","doi":"10.15611/eada.2022.2.01","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15611/eada.2022.2.01","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract FDIs are an important part of the ‘bloodstream’ of many countries’ economies, and it would be difficult to overestimate the benefits of FDIs for the states that receive them. The processes of FDI influx and their effects have been the subject of numerous studies and analyses in the fields of both economic theory and empirical research. However, less attention has been paid to the process of divestment, which in many cases may result in adverse changes in the economies of FDI recipient countries. This article proposes that event history analysis methods can be used to study the survival of FDI projects. FDIs are launched at a certain point in time by investors, last for some time, and then can be either terminated or continued. In this context, we may come across complete as well as truncated observations, much like in the analyses of population processes, therefore the use of demographic methods to study the survivability of FDI projects is justified. The purpose of this article was to present specially constructed FDI life tables and to compare the ‘survivability’ patterns of foreign direct investments in selected economic sectors of the Visegrád Group countries. For many years, these countries have enjoyed considerable interest from foreign investors and have often competed with each other for new FDI projects. Therefore, comparing them not only in terms of the processes related to FDI influx, but also in terms of the processes of divestment appears interesting and important to economists, market analysts and the investors themselves. The study used data from the Orbis and Zephyr databases.","PeriodicalId":11499,"journal":{"name":"Econometrics","volume":"26 1","pages":"1 - 14"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44989485","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
EconometricsPub Date : 2022-06-01DOI: 10.15611/eada.2022.2.02
Łukasz Sroka
{"title":"Applying Block Bootstrap Methods in Silver Prices Forecasting","authors":"Łukasz Sroka","doi":"10.15611/eada.2022.2.02","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15611/eada.2022.2.02","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article focuses on the presentation of the forecasting possibilities of bootstrap methods used to predict prices based on time series. The aim of the paper was to examine the quality of the forecasts made with the methods for silver futures contracts. In order to achieve the intended goal, ex-post and ex-ante errors for the forecasts prepared by applying bootstrap methods were analysed. The forecasts were calculated using the daily closing prices of the silver futures contracts for the period from 01/07/2020 to 27/03/2022 The analysis showed that the quality of forecasts for each of the presented methods is at a satisfactory level. Moreover, the forecasts calculated using the bootstrap methods were closer to the real performance of the silver futures contracts than the forecasts obtained using the ARMA model (1,1). In addition, it was shown that the forecasts made with the tapered block bootstrap method are less affected by forecast errors than the other analysed methods.","PeriodicalId":11499,"journal":{"name":"Econometrics","volume":"26 1","pages":"15 - 29"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48289602","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
EconometricsPub Date : 2022-06-01DOI: 10.15611/eada.2022.2.03
Wahiba Bouabsa
{"title":"Unform in Bandwith of the Conditional Distribution Function with Functional Explanatory Variable: The Case of Spatial Data with the K Nearest Neighbour Method","authors":"Wahiba Bouabsa","doi":"10.15611/eada.2022.2.03","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15611/eada.2022.2.03","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract In this paper the author introduced a new conditional distribution function estimator, in short (cdf), when the co-variables are functional in nature. This estimator is a mix of both procedures the k Nearest Neighbour method and the spatial functional estimation.","PeriodicalId":11499,"journal":{"name":"Econometrics","volume":"26 1","pages":"30 - 46"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42713980","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
EconometricsPub Date : 2022-05-26DOI: 10.3390/econometrics10020025
Paweł Miłobędzki
{"title":"Are Vaccinations Alone Enough to Curb the Dynamics of the COVID-19 Pandemic in the European Union?","authors":"Paweł Miłobędzki","doi":"10.3390/econometrics10020025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3390/econometrics10020025","url":null,"abstract":"I use the data on the COVID-19 pandemic maintained by Our Word in Data to estimate a nonstationary dynamic panel exhibiting the dynamics of confirmed deaths, infections and vaccinations per million population in the European Union countries in the period of January–July 2021. Having the data aggregated on a weekly basis I demonstrate that a model which allows for heterogeneous short-run dynamics and common long-run marginal effects is superior to that allowing only for either homogeneous or heterogeneous responses. The analysis shows that the long-run marginal death effects with respect to confirmed infections and vaccinations are positive and negative, respectively, as expected. Since the estimate of the former effect compared to the latter one is about 71.67 times greater, only mass vaccinations can prevent the number of deaths from being large in the long-run. The success in achieving this is easier for countries with the estimated large negative individual death effect (Cyprus, Denmark, Ireland, Portugal, Estonia, Lithuania) than for those with the large but positive death effect (Bulgaria, Hungary, Slovakia). The speed of convergence to the long-run equilibrium relationship estimates for individual countries are all negative. For some countries (Bulgaria, Denmark, Estonia, Greece, Hungary, Slovakia) they differ in the magnitude from that averaged for the whole EU, while for others (Croatia, Ireland, Lithuania, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Spain), they do not.","PeriodicalId":11499,"journal":{"name":"Econometrics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-05-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41756972","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
EconometricsPub Date : 2022-05-16DOI: 10.3390/econometrics10040036
Francesco Giancaterini, Alain Hecq, C. Morana
{"title":"Is Climate Change Time-Reversible?","authors":"Francesco Giancaterini, Alain Hecq, C. Morana","doi":"10.3390/econometrics10040036","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3390/econometrics10040036","url":null,"abstract":"This paper proposes strategies to detect time reversibility in stationary stochastic processes by using the properties of mixed causal and noncausal models. It shows that they can also be used for non-stationary processes when the trend component is computed with the Hodrick–Prescott filter rendering a time-reversible closed-form solution. This paper also links the concept of an environmental tipping point to the statistical property of time irreversibility and assesses fourteen climate indicators. We find evidence of time irreversibility in greenhouse gas emissions, global temperature, global sea levels, sea ice area, and some natural oscillation indices. While not conclusive, our findings urge the implementation of correction policies to avoid the worst consequences of climate change and not miss the opportunity window, which might still be available, despite closing quickly.","PeriodicalId":11499,"journal":{"name":"Econometrics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41844757","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
EconometricsPub Date : 2022-05-16DOI: 10.3390/econometrics10020024
R. Mosconi, P. Paruolo
{"title":"Celebrated Econometricians: Katarina Juselius and Søren Johansen","authors":"R. Mosconi, P. Paruolo","doi":"10.3390/econometrics10020024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3390/econometrics10020024","url":null,"abstract":"This Special Issue collects contributions related to the advances in the theory and practice of Econometrics induced by the research of Katarina Juselius and Søren Johansen, whom this Special Issue aims to celebrate [...]","PeriodicalId":11499,"journal":{"name":"Econometrics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45548482","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
EconometricsPub Date : 2022-04-27DOI: 10.3390/econometrics10020023
Mikio Ito, Akihiko Noda, Tatsuma Wada
{"title":"An Alternative Estimation Method for Time-Varying Parameter Models","authors":"Mikio Ito, Akihiko Noda, Tatsuma Wada","doi":"10.3390/econometrics10020023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3390/econometrics10020023","url":null,"abstract":"A multivariate, non-Bayesian, regression-based, or feasible generalized least squares (GLS)-based approach is proposed to estimate time-varying VAR parameter models. Although it has been known that the Kalman-smoothed estimate can be alternatively estimated using GLS for univariate models, we assess the accuracy of the feasible GLS estimator compared with commonly used Bayesian estimators. Unlike the maximum likelihood estimator often used together with the Kalman filter, it is shown that the possibility of the pile-up problem occurring is negligible. In addition, this approach enables us to deal with stochastic volatility models, models with a time-dependent variance–covariance matrix, and models with non-Gaussian errors that allow us to deal with abrupt changes or structural breaks in time-varying parameters.","PeriodicalId":11499,"journal":{"name":"Econometrics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-04-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41898267","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}