{"title":"Erratum regarding missing Declaration of Competing Interest statements in previously published articles","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.ecosta.2021.02.005","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ecosta.2021.02.005","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54125,"journal":{"name":"Econometrics and Statistics","volume":"33 ","pages":"Page 338"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143149847","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":"Delayed Monetary Policy Effects in a Multi-Regime Cointegrated VAR(MRCIVAR)","authors":"Pu Chen , Willi Semmler , Helmut Maurer","doi":"10.1016/j.ecosta.2022.03.004","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ecosta.2022.03.004","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div><span>The effectiveness of monetary policies under delayed policy impacts are explored. Initially, in the context of a </span>differential delay<span> system, the macro-finance link is investigated. The nonlinear macro system with delays gives rise to a time-delayed optimal control<span><span> problem. The optimality conditions are then analyzed, and the control problem is numerically solved by </span>discretization and optimization methods. These solutions suggest that with too much delay, destabilizing financial conditions may emerge, rendering the policy ineffective. Then the possibility of asymmetric adjustments to a long-run steady-state, in a non-stationary environment is explored using a multi-regime cointegrated VAR (MRCIVAR) model for both an interest rate cut, and a non-interest rate cut regime. Though the rate cuts may not perform well with too long of a delay, given diverse shocks, monetary policy still performs better in a rate cut regime. Given the perils of deteriorating financial conditions, the better stabilization properties in a rate cut regime are empirically validated through data for European countries and the US.</span></span></div></div>","PeriodicalId":54125,"journal":{"name":"Econometrics and Statistics","volume":"33 ","pages":"Pages 105-134"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73411363","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":"Risk Estimation With Composite Quantile Regression","authors":"Eliana Christou, Michael Grabchak","doi":"10.1016/j.ecosta.2022.04.004","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ecosta.2022.04.004","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>New methods for the estimation of the popular risk measures expected shortfall (ES) and Value-at-Risk (VaR) are introduced. These are based on a novel variant of composite quantile regression (CQR), which allows for the simultaneous estimation of quantiles at several levels at once. An extensive simulation study is performed, along with a data analysis based on two major US market indices and two financial sector stocks. The results suggest that the method has a good finite sample performance. This is the first methodology to use CQR for risk estimation.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54125,"journal":{"name":"Econometrics and Statistics","volume":"33 ","pages":"Pages 166-179"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90063750","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":"Erratum regarding missing Declaration of Competing Interest statements in previously published articles","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.ecosta.2021.02.002","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ecosta.2021.02.002","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54125,"journal":{"name":"Econometrics and Statistics","volume":"33 ","pages":"Pages 332-333"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143149849","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":"Diversifying Trends","authors":"Charles Chevalier , Serge Darolles","doi":"10.1016/j.ecosta.2021.09.002","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ecosta.2021.09.002","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>A new method is proposed for disentangling the systematic components from the idiosyncratic components of risk associated with trend-following strategies. A simple statistical approach combined with standard dimension reduction techniques enables to identify the common trending component of futures market prices. This methodology is applied to a large set of futures, covering all asset classes, to extract a common risk factor, called CoTrend. It is shown that common trends are higher for some cross-asset class pairs than for intra-asset class pairs, such as JPY/USD and Gold. This result is used to create sectors in a portfolio diversification context, especially for trend-following strategies. Additionally, the CoTrend factor helps understand arbitrage-based Hedge Fund strategies, which by essence are decorrelated from standard risk factors.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54125,"journal":{"name":"Econometrics and Statistics","volume":"33 ","pages":"Pages 56-79"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143150807","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":"Multiplicative Error Models: 20 years on","authors":"Fabrizio Cipollini , Giampiero M. Gallo","doi":"10.1016/j.ecosta.2022.05.005","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ecosta.2022.05.005","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The issue of combining low– and high–frequency components of volatility is addressed within the class of Multiplicative Error Models both in the univariate and multivariate cases. Inference based on the Generalized Method of Moments is suggested, which has the advantage of not requiring a parametric choice for the error distribution. The application relates to several volatility market indices (US, Europe and East Asia, with interdependencies in the short–run components of absolute returns, realized kernel volatility and option–based implied volatility indices): a set of diagnostic tools is used to evaluate the evidence of a relevant low–frequency component across markets, also from a forecasting comparison perspective. The results show that the slow–moving component in the dynamics achieves a better fit to the data and allows for an interpretation of what moves the local average level of volatility.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54125,"journal":{"name":"Econometrics and Statistics","volume":"33 ","pages":"Pages 209-229"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80450192","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":"Panel cointegrating polynomial regression analysis and an illustration with the environmental kuznets curve","authors":"Robert M. de Jong , Martin Wagner","doi":"10.1016/j.ecosta.2022.03.005","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ecosta.2022.03.005","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The analysis of cointegrating polynomial regressions, i.e, regressions that include an integrated process and its powers as explanatory variables is extended from the time series to the panel case by developing two estimators, a modified and a fully modified OLS estimator. As usual in the cointegration literature, the stationary errors are allowed to be serially correlated and the regressors are allowed to be endogenous. Both individual and time fixed effects are accommodated and the analysis uses an i.i.d. random linear process framework. The modified OLS estimator utilizes the large cross-sectional dimension that allows to consistently estimate and subtract an additive bias term without the need to also transform the dependent variable as required in fully modified OLS estimation. Both developed estimators have zero mean Gaussian limiting distributions and thus allow for standard asymptotic inference. A brief application to the environmental Kuznets curve illustrates the developed methods.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54125,"journal":{"name":"Econometrics and Statistics","volume":"33 ","pages":"Pages 135-165"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143149852","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":"Erratum regarding missing Declaration of Competing Interest statements in previously published articles","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.ecosta.2021.02.001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ecosta.2021.02.001","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54125,"journal":{"name":"Econometrics and Statistics","volume":"33 ","pages":"Pages 330-331"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143149848","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":"New estimation approaches for graphical models with elastic net penalty","authors":"Davide Bernardini, Sandra Paterlini, Emanuele Taufer","doi":"10.1016/j.ecosta.2022.06.003","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ecosta.2022.06.003","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In the context of undirected Gaussian graphical models, three estimators based on elastic net penalty for the underlying dependence graph are introduced. The aim is to estimate a sparse precision matrix, from which to retrieve both the underlying conditional dependence graph and the partial correlations. The first estimator is derived from the direct penalization of the precision matrix in the likelihood function, while the second uses penalized regressions to estimate the precision matrix. Finally, the third estimator relies on a two stage procedure that estimates the edge set first and then the precision matrix elements. Through simulations the performances of the proposed methods are investigated on a set of well-known network structures. Results on simulated data show that in high-dimensional situations the second estimator performs relatively well, while in low-dimensional settings the two stage procedure outperforms most estimators as the sample size grows. Nonetheless, there are situations where the first estimator is also a good choice. Mixed results suggest that the elastic net penalty is not always the best choice when compared to the LASSO penalty, i.e. pure <span><math><msub><mi>ℓ</mi><mn>1</mn></msub></math></span><span> penalty, even if elastic net penalty tends to outperform LASSO in presence of highly correlated data from the cluster structure. Finally, using real-world data on U.S. economic sectors, dependencies are estimated and the impact of Covid-19 pandemic on the network strength is studied.</span></div></div>","PeriodicalId":54125,"journal":{"name":"Econometrics and Statistics","volume":"33 ","pages":"Pages 258-281"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88726912","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":"Testing the Predictive Ability of Possibly Persistent Variables under Asymmetric Loss","authors":"Matei Demetrescu , Christoph Roling","doi":"10.1016/j.ecosta.2021.09.004","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ecosta.2021.09.004","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Tests of no predictability under an asymmetric power loss function are considered. While this task does not pose difficulties for stationary predictors, non-standard limiting distributions may arise for standard inferential tools when the putative predictors are endogenous (i.e. there is contemporaneous dependence between the shocks of the regressor and of the dependent variable) and of high persistence (i.e. the predictor is reverting slowly to its long-run mean, if at all). It is argued that endogeneity should be interpreted in relation to the relevant loss-function; thus, no endogeneity under MSE loss does not imply, and is not implied by, lack of endogeneity under an asymmetric loss function. To deal with other loss functions than the MSE loss, an overidentified instrumental variable-based test is proposed. The test statistic uses an instrument of high persistence, yet exogenous, and a possibly endogenous one, yet less persistent. The statistic follows a limiting null chi-squared distribution irrespective of the actual degree of persistence of the predictor. The proposed methodology is applied with the forward premium puzzle by providing evidence that asymmetric losses are of empirical relevance and by subsequently conducting robust inference of the rational expectations hypothesis.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54125,"journal":{"name":"Econometrics and Statistics","volume":"33 ","pages":"Pages 80-104"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88979690","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}