The entropy concept was developed and used by Shannon in 1940 as a measure of uncertainty in the context of information theory. In 1957 Jaynes made use of Shannon's entropy concept as a basis for estimation and inference in problems that are ill-suited for traditional statistical procedures....

The estimation of the effects of treatments endogenous variables representing everything from individual participation in a training program to national participation in a World Bank loan program has occupied much of the theoretical and applied econometric research literatures in recent years....

Fast solution of the Gaussian copula model / Bjorn Flesaker -- Perturbed Gaussian copula / Jean-Pierre Fouque, Xianwen Zhou -- The determinants of default correlations / Kanak Patel, Ricardo Pereira -- An empirical study of pricing and hedging collateralized debt obligation (CDO) / Lijuan Cao,...

Comparative study of pure and pretest estimators for a possibly misspecified two-way error component model / Badi H. Baltagi, Georges Bresson, Alain Pirotte -- Estimation, inference, and specification testing for possibly misspecified quantile regression / Tae-Hwan Kim, Halbert White --...

Realized beta : persistence and predictability / Torben G. Andersen, Tim Bollerslev, Francis X. Diebold, Ginger Wu -- Boosting-based frameworks in financial modeling : application to symbolic volatility forecasting / Valeriy V. Gavrishchaka -- Overlaying time scales in financial volatility data...

A multivariate heavy-tailed distribution for ARCH/GARCH residuals / Dimitris N. Politis -- A portmanteau test for multivariate GARCH when the conditional mean is an ECM : theory and empirical applications / Chor-yiu Sin -- Sampling frequency and window length trade-offs in data-driven volatility...

Introduction / Badi H. Baltagi, Thomas B. Fomby, R. Carter Hill -- Testing for common cyclical features in nonstationary panel data models / Alain Hecq, Franz C. Palm, Jean-Pierre Urbain -- The local power of some unit root tests for panel data / J(c)·org Breitung -- On the estimation and...

These essays honor Professor Peter C.B. Phillips of Yale University and his many contributions to the field of econometrics. Professor Phillips's research spans many topics in econometrics including: -non-stationary time series and panel models -partial identification and weak instruments...

Advances in Econometrics is a research annual whose editorial policy is to publish original research articles that contain enough details so that economists and econometricians who are not experts in the topics will find them accessible and useful in their research. Volume 37 exemplifies this...

Vector autoregressive (VAR) models are among the most widely used econometric tools in the fields of macroeconomics and financial economics. Much of what we know about the response of the economy to macroeconomic shocks and about how various shocks have contributed to the evolution of...