{"title":"A Discussion of Non-Gaussian Price Processes for Energy and Commodity Operations","authors":"A. Gambaro, N. Secomandi","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3305438","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3305438","url":null,"abstract":"Energy sources and commodities exhibit high price risk. This risk is thus an important feature of operational models of the value chains for these goods. These models typically employ Gaussian-based representations of the evolution of this uncertainty. This approach facilitates the optimization of operational policies but is at odds with empirical facts about energy and commodity prices, which are better captured by non-Gaussian processes. We discuss this alternative modeling strategy, focusing on Levy processes. As an illustration, we show that it substantially increases the optimal policy value in a simplified merchant natural gas storage setting. Further, we highlight potential implications of using this approach to formulate realistic energy and commodity operations models. Our work has broader relevance for modeling the dynamics of both other market variables and operational quantities, such as exchange rates and demand forecasts. The study of how the adoption of non-Gaussian processes may impact energy and commodity operations is an appealing area for future research.","PeriodicalId":239853,"journal":{"name":"ERN: Other Econometrics: Econometric & Statistical Methods - Special Topics (Topic)","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129014241","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}
{"title":"Modelling GDP for Sudan using ARIMA","authors":"H. M. Hassan","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3630099","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3630099","url":null,"abstract":"This paper aims to obtain an appropriate ARIMA model for the Sudan GDP using the Box- Jenkins methodology during the period 1960-2018 the various ARIMA models with different order of autoregressive and moving-average terms were compared. The appropriate model for Sudan is an ARIMA (1,1,1), the results of an in-sample forecast showed that the relative and predicted values were within the range of 5%, and the forecasting effectiveness of this model, its relatively adequate and efficient in modeling the annual GDP of the Sudan.","PeriodicalId":239853,"journal":{"name":"ERN: Other Econometrics: Econometric & Statistical Methods - Special Topics (Topic)","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128007829","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}
{"title":"Backward Deep BSDE Methods and Applications to Nonlinear Problems","authors":"Jessica (Yajie) Yu, B. Hientzsch, N. Ganesan","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3626208","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3626208","url":null,"abstract":"We present a pathwise deep Backward Stochastic Differential Equation (BSDE) method for Forward Backward Stochastic Differential Equations with terminal conditions that time-steps the BSDE backwards and apply it to the differential rates problem as a prototypical nonlinear problem of independent financial interest. The nonlinear equation for the backward time-step is solved exactly or by a Taylor-based approximation. This is the first application of such a pathwise backward time-stepping deep BSDE approach for problems with nonlinear generators. We extend the method to the case when the initial value of the forward components X can be a parameter rather than fixed and similarly to also learn values at intermediate times. We present numerical results for a call combination and for a straddle, the latter comparing well to those obtained by Forsyth and Labahn with a specialized PDE solver.","PeriodicalId":239853,"journal":{"name":"ERN: Other Econometrics: Econometric & Statistical Methods - Special Topics (Topic)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129698173","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}
{"title":"Dynamic Network Risk","authors":"M. Ellington, Jozef Baruník","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3622200","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3622200","url":null,"abstract":"This paper examines the pricing of short-term and long-term dynamic network risk in the cross-section of stock returns. Stocks with high sensitivities to dynamic network risk earn lower returns. We rationalize our finding with economic theory that allows the stochastic discount factor to load on network risk through the precautionary savings channel. A one-standard deviation increase in long-term (short-term) network risk loadings associate with a 7.66% (6.71%) drop in annualized expected returns.","PeriodicalId":239853,"journal":{"name":"ERN: Other Econometrics: Econometric & Statistical Methods - Special Topics (Topic)","volume":"390 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122859490","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}
{"title":"Arbitrary Spearman’s Rank Correlations in Maximum Entropy Bootstrap and Improved Monte Carlo Simulations","authors":"H. Vinod, Fred Viole","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3621614","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3621614","url":null,"abstract":"The R package for maximum entropy bootstrap (meboot) is widely used for numerous applications involving statistical inference for time series data without having to do differencing or de-trending. We report some simulations confirming its effectiveness. It has been used for simulating time series, especially the function \"flexMeboot,\" in the package, which uses non-overlapping blocks while avoiding allowing for random trend reversals. This paper describes a newer extension called \"mebootSpear,\" which permits the user to specify arbitrary Spearman's rank correlation coefficient rho between original data xt and resampled series. We use simulations to study the properties of the new option and extensions to the traditional Monte Carlo simulations.","PeriodicalId":239853,"journal":{"name":"ERN: Other Econometrics: Econometric & Statistical Methods - Special Topics (Topic)","volume":"57 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134304149","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}
R. Molinari, Gaetan Bakalli, S. Guerrier, Cesare Miglioli, Samuel Orso, O. Scaillet
{"title":"Swag: A Wrapper Method for Sparse Learning","authors":"R. Molinari, Gaetan Bakalli, S. Guerrier, Cesare Miglioli, Samuel Orso, O. Scaillet","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3633843","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3633843","url":null,"abstract":"Predictive power has always been the main research focus of learning algorithms. While the general approach for these algorithms is to consider all possible attributes in a dataset to best predict the response of interest, an important branch of research is focused on sparse learning. Indeed, in many practical settings we believe that only an extremely small combination of different attributes affect the response. However even sparse-learning methods can still preserve a high number of attributes in high-dimensional settings and possibly deliver inconsistent prediction performance. The latter methods can also be hard to interpret for researchers and practitioners, a problem which is even more relevant for the ``black-box''-type mechanisms of many learning approaches. Finally, there is often a problem of replicability since not all data-collection procedures measure (or observe) the same attributes and therefore cannot make use of proposed learners for testing purposes. To address all the previous issues, we propose to study a procedure that combines screening and wrapper methods and aims to find a library of extremely low-dimensional attribute combinations (with consequent low data collection and storage costs) in order to (i) match or improve the predictive performance of any particular learning method which uses all attributes as an input (including sparse learners); (ii) provide a low-dimensional network of attributes easily interpretable by researchers and practitioners; and (iii) increase the potential replicability of results due to a diversity of attribute combinations defining strong learners with equivalent predictive power. We call this algorithm ``Sparse Wrapper AlGorithm'' (SWAG).","PeriodicalId":239853,"journal":{"name":"ERN: Other Econometrics: Econometric & Statistical Methods - Special Topics (Topic)","volume":"130 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116207172","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}
{"title":"Микроэкономический анализ инвестиционных стратегий зарубежных компаний в России в контексте их внешнеторговой деятельности (Microeconomic Analysis of Investment Strategies of Foreign Companies in Russia in the Context of Their Foreign Trade Activities)","authors":"Alexander Knobel, Yury Zaitsev","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3710580","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3710580","url":null,"abstract":"<b>Russian Abstract:</b> Данное исследование посвящено выявлению закономерностей пространственного и отраслевого распределения предприятий прямого иностранного инвестирования в Российской Федерации и выработке рекомендаций для оптимизации стратегии привлечения прямых иностранных инвестиций в Российскую Федерацию.<br>Были применены следующие методы: метод макроэкономического моделирования, оценки эконометрических моделей, а также логического, системного, сравнительного, экономико-статистического анализа. Статистические данные на уровне предприятий использованы из базы данных «РУСЛАНА» и «СПАРК-ИНТЕРФАКС».<br>Результаты позволяют указать на некоторые характерные черты пространственного распределения иностранных предприятий, которые необходимо учитывать при формировании картины предпочтений иностранных инвесторов и политики привлечения иностранных инвесторов в российские регионы.<br><br><b>English Abstract:</b> This working paper is devoted to identifying patterns of spatial and sectoral distribution of foreign direct investment enterprises in the Russian Federation and to developing recommendations for optimizing the strategy of attracting foreign direct investment to the Russian Federation.<br><br>The following methods were applied: the method of macroeconomic modeling, evaluation of econometric models, as well as logical, systemic, comparative, economic and statistical analysis. Statistical data at the enterprise level were used from the «RUSLANA» and «SPARK-INTERFAX» databases.<br><br>The results allow to point out some characteristic features of the spatial distribution of foreign enterprises, which must be taken into account when forming a picture of preferences of foreign investors and the policy of attracting foreign investors to Russian regions.","PeriodicalId":239853,"journal":{"name":"ERN: Other Econometrics: Econometric & Statistical Methods - Special Topics (Topic)","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133718077","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}
Andres Algaba, David Ardia, Keven Bluteau, S. Borms, Kris Boudt
{"title":"Econometrics Meets Sentiment: An Overview of Methodology and Applications","authors":"Andres Algaba, David Ardia, Keven Bluteau, S. Borms, Kris Boudt","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.2652876","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2652876","url":null,"abstract":"The advent of massive amounts of textual, audio, and visual data has spurred the development of econometric methodology to transform qualitative sentiment data into quantitative sentiment variables, and to use those variables in an econometric analysis of the relationships between sentiment and other variables. We survey this emerging research field and refer to it as sentometrics, which is a portmanteau of sentiment and econometrics. We provide a synthesis of the relevant methodological approaches, illustrate with empirical results, and discuss useful software.","PeriodicalId":239853,"journal":{"name":"ERN: Other Econometrics: Econometric & Statistical Methods - Special Topics (Topic)","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121155968","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}
{"title":"A New Robust Inference for Predictive Quantile Regression","authors":"Z. Cai, Hai-qiang Chen, Xiaosai Liao","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3593817","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3593817","url":null,"abstract":"For predictive quantile regressions with highly persistent regressors, a conventional test statistic suffers from a serious size distortion and its limiting distribution relies on the unknown persistence degree of predictors. This paper proposes a double-weighted approach to offer a robust inferential theory across all types of persistent regressors. We first estimate a quantile regression with an auxiliary regressor, which is generated as a weighted combination of an exogenous random walk process and a bounded transformation of the original regressor. With a similar spirit of rotation in factor analysis, one can then construct a weighted estimator using the estimated coefficients of the original predictor and the auxiliary regressor. Under some mild conditions, it shows that the self-normalized test statistic based on the weighted estimator converges to a standard normal distribution. Our new approach enjoys a nice property that it can reach the local power under the optimal rate T with nonstationary predictor and squared root of T for stationary predictor, respectively. More importantly, our approach can be easily used to characterize mixed persistence degrees in multiple regressions. Simulations and empirical studies are provided to demonstrate the effectiveness of the newly proposed approach. The heterogenous predictability of US stock returns at different quantile levels is reexamined.","PeriodicalId":239853,"journal":{"name":"ERN: Other Econometrics: Econometric & Statistical Methods - Special Topics (Topic)","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125374809","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}
{"title":"Construal Level Research in Decision Making: Analysis and Pushing Forward the Debate Using Bibliometric Review and Thematic Analysis","authors":"A. Mishra, A. Raj, A. Pani","doi":"10.37625/abr.23.1.106-135","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37625/abr.23.1.106-135","url":null,"abstract":"This study examines the extant literature on Construal Level Theory through bibliometric analysis that traces the path of research from 1998 to November 2019. It uses the Scopus database to identify emerging trends, seminal and most-cited papers, authors, universities, and countries that contributed to the development of the theory. A total of 680 papers from 1445 authors, were published in as many as 322 journals. The results indicate that ‘Journal of Experimental Social Psychology,’ ‘Journal of Personality and Social Psychology,’ and ‘Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin,’ were the three most productive sources of knowledge for this theory. The results show that over time, the discussion has progressed from theory to application in different areas of decision sciences, psychology, and management with a recent trend towards application in sustainability. This is the first literature review that has been conducted on the Construal Level Theory using bibliometric analysis. This study attempts to describe, explore possibilities, and provide a roadmap for future research in this field.","PeriodicalId":239853,"journal":{"name":"ERN: Other Econometrics: Econometric & Statistical Methods - Special Topics (Topic)","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123670523","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}