This article employs linear Granger causality tests and the nonlinear causality test of Baek and Brock (1992) and Hiemstra and Jones (1994), as recently modified by Diks and Panchenko (2005b), to re-examine the dynamic relation between daily Eurodollar and US certificate of deposit interest...

This paper uses daily, monthly, and quarterly observations for the Canadian dollar - US dollar nominal exchange rate over the recent flexible exchange rate period (from 2 January 1973 to 11 June 2004), and a new statistical model of exchange rate dynamics, developed by Engel and Hamilton to test...

This paper tests R. J. Barro's (1979) tax-smoothing hypothesis and N. G. Mankiw's (1987) revenue-smoothing hypothesis using quarterly data for four countries--Canada, France, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The tests are conducted using recent advances in the theory of integrated...

This article tests the long-run neutrality of money proposition using quarterly U.S. data over the period from 1960:1 to 1996:2 and the methodology suggested by King and Watson (1997), paying particular attention to the integration and cointegration properties of the variables. Comparisons are...

This paper surveys both the theoretical and empirical economics literatures on nonlinearity, complex dynamics, and chaos. Unlike earlier survey papers, this one is written for professional researchers in the area and assumes relevant mathematical background. Unsolved problems and unresolved...

The authors investigate the basic nominal stylized facts of business cycles in the United States, using monthly data from 1960:1 to 1993:4 and the methodology suggested by Kydland and Prescott (1990). They make comparisons among simple sum and Divisia aggregates, using the Thornton and Yue...