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The effect of the great moderation on the US business cycle in a time-varying multivariate trend-cycle model

Creal, Drew; Koopman, Siem Jan; Zivot, Eric - 2008

accounts for time variation in macroeconomic volatility, known as the great moderation. In particular, we consider an … volatility processes and mixture distributions for the irregular components and the common cycle disturbances enable us to … that time-varying volatility is only present in the a selection of idiosyncratic components while the coefficients driving …

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Measuring asymmetric stochastic cycle components in US macroeconomic time series

Koopman, Siem Jan; Lee, Kai Ming - 2005

To gain insights in the current status of the economy, macroeconomic time series are often decomposed into trend, cycle and irregular components. This can be done by nonparametric band-pass filtering methods in the frequency domain or by model-based decompositions based on autoregressive moving...

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Measuring Asymmetric Stochastic Cycle Components

Koopman, Siem Jan; Lee, Kai Ming - 2005

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Modelling volatility spillovers for bio-ethanol, sugarcane and corn

Chang, Chia-Lin; McAleer, Michael; Wang, Yu-Ann - 2016

prices, returns and volatility of related agricultural commodities. Analyzing the spillover effects on agricultural …. The purpose of this paper is to examine the volatility spillovers for spot and futures returns on bio-ethanol and related … agricultural commodities, specifically corn and sugarcane, using the multivariate diagonal BEKK conditional volatility model. The …

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Long run returns predictability and volatility with moving averages

Chang, Chia-Lin; Ilomäki, Jukka; Laurila, Hannu; … - In: Risks : open access journal 6 (2018) 4, pp. 1-18

This paper examines how the size of the rolling window, and the frequency used in moving average (MA) trading strategies, affects financial performance when risk is measured. We use the MA rule for market timing, that is, for when to buy stocks and when to shift to the risk-free rate. The...

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