Reviewing the definition and measurement of speculative bubbles in context of contagion, this paper analyses the DotCom bubble in American and European equity markets using the dynamic conditional correlation (DCC) model proposed as on one hand as an econometrics explanation and on the other...

The aim of this paper is to set out criteria for defining trend and seasonal components in a time series. The criteria are set up primarily in terms of properties involving prediction. Because a structural time series model is set up in terms of components of interest, the relevant information...

In this paper, we address whether using a disaggregated series or combining an aggregated and disaggregated series improves the forecasting of the aggregated series compared to using the aggregated series alone. We used econometric techniques, such as the weighted lag adaptive least absolute...