We study the influence of measurement error specification on estimation results in the context of continuous-time models of the term structure of interest rates. For this purpose, we estimate a two-factor mean-reverting stochastic model of the recent evolution of the Spanish term structure. The...

This paper considers the estimation of binary choice panel data models with discrete endogenous regressors. We present a switching probit model which accounts for selectivity bias as well as for other forms of time invariant unobserved heterogeneity. Individual effects are allowed to be...

The European Community and the US have experienced vastly different unemployment dynamics over the last two decades. This paper investigates whether these differences are due to exposure to different shocks or reacting differently to the same shocks. With the premise of a search theoretic...

In this paper we derive the asymptotic properties of within groups (WG), GMM and LIML estimators for an autoregressive model with random effects when both T and N tend to infinity. GMM and LIML are consistent and asymptotically equivalent to the WG estimator. When T/N-0 the fixed T results for...

The factor GARCH model of Engle (1987) and the latent factor ARCH model of Diebold and Nerlove (1989) have become rather popular multivariate volatility parameterizations due to their parsimony, and the commonality in volatility movements across different financial series. Nevertheless, there is...