Introduction (Gilles Dufrénot and Takashi Matsuki, eds) -- Part I. Macroeconometrics and international finance -- Chapter 1. Quantile and copula spectrum: a new approach to investigate cyclical dependence in economic time series (Gilles Dufrénot, Takashi Matsuki and Kimiko Sugimoto) -- Chapter...

The book provides a comprehensive overview of the latest econometric methods for studying the dynamics of macroeconomic and financial time series. It examines alternative methodological approaches and concepts, including quantile spectra and co-spectra, and explores topics such as non-linear and...

"This paper describes a Bayesian specification procedure used to generate a vector autoregressive model for forecasting macroeconomic variables. The specification search is over parameters of a prior. This quasi-Bayesian approach is viewed as a flexible tool for constructing a filter which...