Is there asymmetry in the distribution of government bond returns in developed countries? Can asymmetries be predicted using financial and macroeconomic variables? To answer the first question, we provide evidence for asymmetry in government bond returns in particular for short maturities. This...

The hypothesis that when firms obtain financing, they prefer internal sources to external sources is known as the pecking order hypothesis. We model firms' financing activities implied by the pecking order hypothesis by a sequential logit model. Then, we propose to test the pecking order...

In this paper, I propose a simple methodology for inferring the correlation between permanent and transitory shocks in unidentified unobserved components (UC) models, where the correlation is not identified. However, I show that there is an upper bound of the correlation implied from the...

Information matrix (IM) test (White, 1982) has been used for detecting general model misspecification in the applied econometrics literature. Two of the most commonly used asymptotic covariance matrix estimators (ACMEs) for the IM test are the one that White (1982) proposed in his original paper...

In this paper, we show that the sequential logit (SL) model, in which a choice process is characterized as a sequence of independent multinomial logit models, is a limiting case of the nested logit (NL) model. For testing the SL model against the NL model, we propose using the Wald, likelihood...

In this paper, we show that the sequential logit (SL) model, in which a choice process is characterized as a sequence of independent multinomial logit models, is a limiting case of the nested logit (NL) model. For testing the SL model against the NL model, we propose using the Wald, likelihood...

Is there asymmetry in the distribution of government bond returns in developed countries? Can asymmetries be predicted using financial and macroeconomic variables? To answer the first question, we provide evidence for asymmetry in government bond returns in particular for short maturities. This...

Is there asymmetry in the distribution of government bond returns in developed countries? Can asymmetries be predicted using financial and macroeconomic variables? To answer the first question, we provide evidence for asymmetry in government bond returns in particular for short maturities. This...

In this study, we considered a matrix operator that stacks up generically distinct elements of a symmetric matrix in a way different from the well-known "vech" operator. We call this operator the "vecp" operator. The vecp operator is similar to the vech operator, but it is more useful in...