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The hedge fund represents a unique investment opportunity for the institutional and private investors in the diffusion-type financial systems. The main objective of this condensed article is to research the hedge fund’s optimal investment portfolio strategies selection in the global capital...
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This paper examines the daily volatility of changes in yield on the 10-year Treasury note utilizing the iterated … cumulative sums of squares algorithm (Inclan and Tiao, 1994). The ICSS algorithm can detect regime shifts in the volatility of …-of-sample volatility forecasting performance of two competing models is made using asymmetric error measures. The asymmetric error …
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This paper surveys research on Emulative Neural Network (ENN) models as economic forecasters. ENNs are statistical methods that seek to mimic neural processing. They serve as trainable analytical tools that quot;learnquot; autonomously. ENNs are ideal for finding non-linear relationships and...
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Extreme Value Theory (EVT) methods are used to investigate the asymptotic distribution of the lower tail for daily returns in the Athens Stock Exchange (ASE) over the period 1986 to 2001. Overall, the Generalised Logistic (GL) distribution is found to provide adequate descriptions of the...
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estimation techniques, and model uncertainty by combining forecasts from individual models. We incorporate macroeconomic …
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The causal relationship between money and income (output) has been an important topic and has been extensively studied. However, those empirical studies are almost entirely on Granger-causality in the conditional mean. Compared to conditional mean, conditional quantiles give a broader picture of...
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In this paper we discuss the 'structural cointegrating VAR' approach to macroeconometric modelling and compare it to other approaches currently followed in the literature, namely the large-scale simultaneous equation macroeconometric models, the structural VARs, and the dynamic stochastic...
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Germany represents a particular case in Europe because of the occurrence of two major structural changes since the end … of the Seventies : first the reunification of the Federal Republic of Germany and the German Democratic Republic in 1990 …
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Reliable data analysis is one of the hardest tasks in sciences and social sciences. Often misleading and sometimes puzzling results arise when the analysis is done without regard for the special features of the data. In this exposition, I will focus on designing new statistical tools to deal...
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well in low-volatility subperiods such as the late 1990s. We demonstrate that this problem of model uncertainty can be …
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