Natural gas plays important role in the global energy sources, hence understanding its price behavior is important to various economic agents. This study examined whether rational bubbles existed in the three major natural gas markets by employing Fourier unit root tests and a nonparametric rank...

In many applications one is interested to detect certain (known) patterns in the mean of a process with smallest delay. Using an asymptotic framework which allows to capture that feature, we study a class of appropriate sequential nonparametric kernel procedures under local nonparametric...

We develop Bayesian techniques for estimation and model comparison in a novel Generalised Stochastic Unit Root (GSTUR) model. This allows us to investigate the presence of a deterministic time trend in economic series, while allowing the degree of persistence to change over time. In particular...