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Nowcasting and forecasting economic growth in the Euro area using principal components

Hindrayanto, Irma; Koopman, Siem Jan; Winter, Jasper de - 2014

short-term forecasting models. These empirical findings have been established for different macroeconomic data sets and … specification is most effective in its forecasting performance. Furthermore, the forecast performances of the different … extended empirical out-of-sample forecasting competition for quarterly growth of gross domestic product in the euro area and …

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Testing for a common volatility process and information spillovers in bivariate financial time series models

Chen, Jinghui; Kobayashi, Masahito; McAleer, Michael - 2016 - Revised: February 2016

The paper considers the problem as to whether financial returns have a common volatility process in the framework of stochastic volatility models that were suggested by Harvey et al. (1994). We propose a stochastic volatility version of the ARCH test proposed by Engle and Susmel (1993), who...

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Measuring financial cycles in a model-based analysis : empirical evidence for the United States and the euro area

Galati, Gabriele; Hindrayanto, Irma; Koopman, Siem Jan; … - 2016

We adopt an unobserved components time series model to extract financial cycles for the United States and the five largest euro area countries over the period 1970 to 2014. We find that credit, the credit-to-GDP ratio and house prices have medium-term cycles which share a few common statistical...

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Testing for volatility co-movement in bivariate stochastic volatility models

Chen, Jinghui; Kobayashi, Masahito; McAleer, Michael - 2017 - Revised: February 2017

The paper considers the problem of volatility co-movement, namely as to whether two financial returns have perfectly correlated common volatility process, in the framework of multivariate stochastic volatility models and proposes a test which checks the volatility co-movement. The proposed test...

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Periodic unobserved cycles in seasonal time series with an application to US unemployment

Koopman, Siem Jan; Ooms, Marius; Hindrayanto, Irma - 2006

This paper discusses identification, specification, estimation and forecasting for a general class of periodic … formulations are introduced for exact maximum likelihood estimation, component estimation and forecasting. Identification issues …

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