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...

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...

Econometric models are a widely used and powerful tool in macroeconomic analysis and forecasting. Admittedly, their acceptance by the scientific community has had some hard times during the seventies and eighties: a general decline in the reputation of macroeconomics, the Lucas critique, and...