We build on the trade literature to learn about the long-run impact of economic shocks on child health. We find that regions more exposed to a negative (trade-induced) economic shock also experienced a faster increase in child disability relatively to less exposed regions. This impact occurred...

Quantile forecasting has become an important research topic in econometrics as policy makers and investors are increasingly interested to focus more on downside (upside) risks rather than learning about the most likely outcome. Simultaneously, practitioners have largely used textual data to con-...

There has been a large amount of research on long memory in economic and financial time series. However, there is still no consensus on its presence in these series. We argue in this article that spurious short memory may be found because of the use of bandwidth parameters that diverge too...