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Why a diversified portfolio should include African assets

Alagidede, Paul; Panagiotidis, Theodore; Zhang, Xu - 2010

We employ parametric and non-parametric cointegration to investigate the extent of integration between African stock … markets and the rest of the world. Long-run correlation estimates imply very low association between the two. The two distinct … cointegration approaches confirm the latter through recursive estimation. The implication is that global market movements may have …

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Did US consumers 'save for a rainy day' before the Great Recession?

Anundsen, Andre K.; Nymore, Ragnar - 2015

The 'saving for a rainy day' hypothesis implies that households' saving decisions reflect that they can (rationally) predict future income declines. The empirical relevance of this hypothesis plays a key role in discussions of fiscal policy multipliers and it holds under the null that the...

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Economic regime shifts and the US subprime bubble

Anundsen, André Kallåk - 2013

Using aggregate quarterly data for the period 1975q1-2010q4, I find that the US housing market changed from a stable regime with prices determined by fundamentals, to a highly unstable regime at the beginning of the previous decade. My results indicate that these imbalances could have been...

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Automatic identification of general vector error correction models

Arbués, Ignacio; Ledo, Ramiro; Matilla-García, Mariano - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 10 (2016) 2016-26, pp. 1-41

There are a number of econometrics tools to deal with the different types of situations in which cointegration can …

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Testing for Structural Breaks

Gregory, Allan W.; Nason, James M. - 1991

to the tests of Hansen, we consider the sensitivity of the augmented Dicky-Fuller (ADF) teest for cointegration in the … failure to reject the null of no cointegration). As a practical example we consider the stability of the long-run coefficients …

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Automatic identification of general vector error correction models

Arbués, Ignacio; Ledo, Ramiro; Matilla-García, Mariano - 2016

There are a number of econometrics tools to deal with the different type of situations in which cointegration can …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011500010

Did US Consumers 'Save for a Rainy Day' Before the Great Recession?

Anundsen, André Kallåk; Nymoen, Ragnar - 2015

The ‘saving for a rainy day’ hypothesis implies that households’ saving decisions reflect that they can (rationally) predict future income declines. The empirical relevance of this hypothesis plays a key role in discussions of fiscal policy multipliers and it holds under the null that the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010531814