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The euro's trade effect under cross-sectional heterogeneity and stochastic resistance

Herwartz, Helmut; Weber, Henning - 2010

This paper investigates if the euro's effect on euro-area trade differs across trade sectors and across country pairs …, and to what degree heterogeneity matters for estimating the aggregate euro effect. Time-varying latent variables, which …, aggregate exports within the euro area increase between 2000 and 2002 by 15 to 25 percent compared with aggregate exports …

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Testing for Causality in Variance using Multivariate GARCH Models

Hafner, Christian M.; Herwartz, Helmut - 2004

Tests of causality in variance in multiple time series have been proposed recently, based on residuals of estimated univariate models. Although such tests are applied frequently little is known about their power properties. In this paper we show that a convenient alternative to residual based...

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A robust bootstrap approach to the Hausman test in stationary panel data models

Herwartz, Helmut; Neumann, Michael H. - 2007

In panel data econometrics the Hausman test is of central importance to select an e?cient estimator of the models' slope parameters. When testing the null hypothesis of no correlation between unobserved heterogeneity and observable explanatory variables by means of the Hausman test model...

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Exact inference in diagnosing value-at-risk estimates: A Monte Carlo device

Herwartz, Helmut - 2008

In this note a Monte Carlo approach is suggested to determine critical values for diagnostic tests of Value-at-Risk models that rely on binary random variables. Monte Carlo testing offers exact significance levels in finite samples. Conditional on exact critical values the dynamic quantile test...

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Testing directional forecast value in the presence of serial correlation

Blaskowitz, Oliver J.; Herwartz, Helmut - 2008

Common approaches to test for the economic value of directional forecasts are based on the classical Chi-square test for independence, Fisher’s exact test or the Pesaran and Timmerman (1992) test for market timing. These tests are asymptotically valid for serially independent observations....

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A new approach to bootstrap inference in functional coefficient models

Herwartz, Helmut; Xu, Fang - 2007

We introduce a new, factor based bootstrap approach which is robust under heteroskedastic error terms for inference in functional coefficient models. Modeling the functional coefficient parametrically, the bootstrap approximation of an F statistic is shown to hold asymptotically. In simulation...

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Semiparametric Approaches to the Prediction of Conditional Correlation Matrices in Finance

Herwartz, Helmut; Golosnoy, Vasyl - 2007

We consider the problem of ex-ante forecasting conditional correlation patterns using ultra high frequency data. Flexible semiparametric predictors referring to the class of dynamic panel and dynamic factor models are adopted for daily forecasts. The parsimonious set up of our approach allows to...

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Exchange rate uncertainty and trade growth: A comparison of linear and nonlinear (forecasting) models

Herwartz, Helmut; Weber, Henning - 2007

A huge body of empirical and theoretical literature has emerged on the relationship between foreign exchange (FX) uncertainty and international trade. Empirical findings about the impact of FX uncertainty on trade figures are at best weak and often ambiguous with respect to its direction. Almost...

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On economic evaluation of directional forecasts

Blaskowitz, Oliver J.; Herwartz, Helmut - 2009

It is commonly accepted that information is helpful if it can be exploited to improve a decision making process. In economics, decisions are often based on forecasts of up- or downward movements of the variable of interest. We point out that directional forecasts can provide a useful framework...

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