We provide nonparametric quantile regressions to test for autocorrelation patterns for weekly and monthly stock returns. We test in four developed markets (North America, Europe, Japan, and Asia without Japan) and five market-size portfolios. We find greater heteroskedasticity for the...

This paper proposes a novel semiparametric time-varying model for long-horizon predictive regressions in which the coefficients are allowed to change over time with unspecified functional forms. A linear projection method is employed to deal with the embedded endogeneity issue. We pursue an...

This paper develops Bayesian econometric methods for posterior inference in non-parametric mixed frequency VARs using additive regression trees. We argue that regression tree models are ideally suited for macroeconomic nowcasting in the face of extreme observations, for instance those produced...