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The role of Skorokhod space in the development of the econometric analysis of time series
This paper discusses the fundamental role played by Skorokhod space, through its underpinning of functional central limit theory, in the development of the paradigm of unit roots and co-integration. This paradigm has fundamentally affected the way economists approach economic time series as was recognized by the award of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences to Robert F. Engle and Clive W.J. Granger in 2003. Here, we focus on how P.C.B. Phillips and others used the Skorokhod topology to establish a limiting distribution theory that underpinned and facilitated the development of methods of estimation and testing of single equations and systems of equations with possibly integrated regressors. This approach has spawned a large body of work that can be traced back to Skorokhod's conception of fifty years ago. Much of this work is surprisingly confined to the econometrics literature.Skorokhod space, functional central limit theorems, non-stationary time series, unit roots and co-integration, Wiener functionals, econometrics.
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Quantile autoregressive distributed lag model with an application to house price returns
This paper studies quantile regression in an autoregressive dynamic framework with exogenous stationary covariates. Hence, we develop a quantile autoregressive distributed lag model (QADL). We show that these estimators are consistent and asymptotically normal. Inference based on Wald and Kolmogorov-Smirnov tests for general linear restrictions is proposed. An extensive Monte Carlo simulation is conducted to evaluate the properties of the estimators. We demonstrate the potential of the QADL model with an application to house price returns in the United Kingdom. The results show that house price returns present a heterogeneous autoregressive behavior across the quantiles. The real GDP growth and interest rates also have an asymmetric impact on house prices variations
Bootstrap tests for unit root AR(1) models
In this paper, we propose bootstrap tests for unit roots in first-order autoregressive models. We provide the bootstrap functional limit theory needed to prove the asymptotic validity of these tests both for independent and autoregressive errors; in this case, the usual corrections due to innovations dependence can be avoided. We also present a power empirical study comparing these tests with existing alternative methods
Local linear spatial regression
A local linear kernel estimator of the regression function x\mapsto
g(x):=E[Y_i|X_i=x], x\in R^d, of a stationary (d+1)-dimensional spatial process
{(Y_i,X_i),i\in Z^N} observed over a rectangular domain of the form
I_n:={i=(i_1,...,i_N)\in Z^N| 1\leq i_k\leq n_k,k=1,...,N}, n=(n_1,...,n_N)\in
Z^N, is proposed and investigated. Under mild regularity assumptions,
asymptotic normality of the estimators of g(x) and its derivatives is
established. Appropriate choices of the bandwidths are proposed. The spatial
process is assumed to satisfy some very general mixing conditions, generalizing
classical time-series strong mixing concepts. The size of the rectangular
domain I_n is allowed to tend to infinity at different rates depending on the
direction in Z^N.Comment: Published at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/009053604000000850 in the
Annals of Statistics (http://www.imstat.org/aos/) by the Institute of
Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org
Regression Asymptotics Using Martingale Convergence Methods
Weak convergence of partial sums and multilinear forms in independent random variables and linear processes to stochastic integrals now plays a major role in nonstationary time series and has been central to the development of unit root econometrics. The present paper develops a new and conceptually simple method for obtaining such forms of convergence. The method relies on the fact that the econometric quantities of interest involve discrete time martingales or semimartingales and shows how in the limit these quantities become continuous martingales and semimartingales. The limit theory itself uses very general convergence results for semimartingales that were obtained in work by Jacod and Shiryaev (2003). The theory that is developed here is applicable in a wide range of econometric models and many examples are given. One notable outcome of the new approach is that it provides a unified treatment of the asymptotics for stationary autoregression and autoregression with roots at or near unity, as both these cases are subsumed within the martingale convergence approach and different rates of convergence are accommodated in a natural way. The approach is also useful in developing asymptotics for certain nonlinear functions of integrated processes, which are now receiving attention in econometric applications, and some new results in this area are presented. The paper is partly of pedagogical interest and the conceptual simplicity of the methods is appealing. Since this is the first time the methods have been used in econometrics, the exposition is presented in some detail with illustrations of new derivations of some well-known existing results, as well as some new asymptotic results and the unification of the limit theory for autoregression.Semimartingale, martingale, convergence, stochastic integrals, bilinear forms, multilinear forms, U-statistics, unit root, stationarity, Brownian motion, invariance principle, unification
Self-excited Threshold Poisson Autoregression
This paper studies theory and inference of an observation-driven model for
time series of counts. It is assumed that the observations follow a Poisson
distribution conditioned on an accompanying intensity process, which is
equipped with a two-regime structure according to the magnitude of the lagged
observations. The model remedies one of the drawbacks of the Poisson
autoregression model by allowing possibly negative correlation in the
observations. Classical Markov chain theory and Lyapunov's method are utilized
to derive the conditions under which the process has a unique invariant
probability measure and to show a strong law of large numbers of the intensity
process. Moreover the asymptotic theory of the maximum likelihood estimates of
the parameters is established. A simulation study and a real data application
are considered, where the model is applied to the number of major earthquakes
in the world
Asymptotic properties of the maximum likelihood estimator in autoregressive models with Markov regime
An autoregressive process with Markov regime is an autoregressive process for
which the regression function at each time point is given by a nonobservable
Markov chain. In this paper we consider the asymptotic properties of the
maximum likelihood estimator in a possibly nonstationary process of this kind
for which the hidden state space is compact but not necessarily finite.
Consistency and asymptotic normality are shown to follow from uniform
exponential forgetting of the initial distribution for the hidden Markov chain
conditional on the observations.Comment: Published at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/009053604000000021 in the
Annals of Statistics (http://www.imstat.org/aos/) by the Institute of
Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org
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