{"title":"Exploiting News Analytics for Volatility Forecasting","authors":"Simon Tranberg Bodilsen, Asger Lunde","doi":"10.1002/jae.3095","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jae.3095","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This study investigates the potential of news sentiment in predicting stock market volatility. We augment traditional time series models of realized volatility with the sentiment of macroeconomic and firm-specific news. Our results demonstrate that incorporating the sentiment of domestic macroeconomic news significantly improves volatility predictions for individual stocks and the S&P 500 Index. Notably, we find substantial enhancements in long-horizon volatility predictions when including the sentiment of macroeconomic news in the regression models. In contrast, firm-specific news sentiment shows only modest predictive power in the general framework. However, expanding the set of predictors to include the news count of firm-specific news occurring overnight between two consecutive trading periods significantly improves one-period-ahead volatility forecasts.</p><p><b>JEL Classification:</b> C53, C55, C58, G14, G17</p>","PeriodicalId":48363,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Econometrics","volume":"40 1","pages":"18-36"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2024-10-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/jae.3095","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143118378","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Quantile-Based Test for Heterogeneous Treatment Effects","authors":"EunYi Chung, Mauricio Olivares","doi":"10.1002/jae.3093","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jae.3093","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We introduce a permutation test for heterogeneous treatment effects based on the quantile process. However, tests based on the quantile process often suffer from estimated nuisance parameters that jeopardize their validity, even in large samples. To overcome this problem, we use Khmaladze's martingale transformation. We show that the permutation test based on the transformed statistic controls size asymptotically. Numerical evidence asserts the good size and power performance of our test procedure compared to other popular quantile-based tests. We discuss a fast implementation algorithm and illustrate our method using experimental data from a welfare reform.</p>","PeriodicalId":48363,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Econometrics","volume":"40 1","pages":"3-17"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2024-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/jae.3093","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143115878","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Optimal multi-action treatment allocation: A two-phase field experiment to boost immigrant naturalization","authors":"Achim Ahrens, Alessandra Stampi-Bombelli, Selina Kurer, Dominik Hangartner","doi":"10.1002/jae.3092","DOIUrl":"10.1002/jae.3092","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Research underscores the role of naturalization in enhancing immigrants' socio-economic integration, yet application rates remain low. We estimate a policy rule for a letter-based information campaign encouraging newly eligible immigrants in Zurich, Switzerland, to naturalize. The policy rule assigns one out of three treatment letters to each individual, based on their observed characteristics. We field the policy rule to one-half of 1717 immigrants, while sending random treatment letters to the other half. Despite only moderate treatment effect heterogeneity, the policy tree yields a larger, albeit insignificant, increase in application rates compared with assigning the same letter to everyone.</p>","PeriodicalId":48363,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Econometrics","volume":"39 7","pages":"1379-1395"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2024-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/jae.3092","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142211624","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Heterogeneous autoregressions in short \u0000\u0000 \u0000 T\u0000 panel data models","authors":"M. Hashem Pesaran, Liying Yang","doi":"10.1002/jae.3085","DOIUrl":"10.1002/jae.3085","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper considers a first-order autoregressive (AR) panel data model with individual-specific effects and heterogeneous AR coefficients defined on the interval \u0000<span></span><math>\u0000 <semantics>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mo>(</mo>\u0000 <mo>−</mo>\u0000 <mn>1,1</mn>\u0000 <mo>]</mo>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 <annotation>$$ left(-1,1right] $$</annotation>\u0000 </semantics></math>, thus allowing for some of the individual processes to have unit roots. It proposes estimators for the moments of the cross-sectional distribution of the AR coefficients, assuming a random coefficient model for the AR coefficients without imposing any restrictions on the fixed effects. It is shown that the standard generalized method of moments estimators obtained under homogeneous slopes are biased. Small sample properties of the proposed estimators are investigated by Monte Carlo experiments and compared with a number of alternatives, both under homogeneous and heterogeneous slopes. It is found that a simple moment estimator of the mean of heterogeneous AR coefficients performs very well even for moderate sample sizes, but to reliably estimate the variance of AR coefficients, much larger samples are required. It is also required that the true value of this variance is not too close to zero. The utility of the heterogeneous approach is illustrated in the context of earnings dynamics.</p>","PeriodicalId":48363,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Econometrics","volume":"39 7","pages":"1359-1378"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2024-08-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/jae.3085","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141922413","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}