Recent Econometric Techniques for Macroeconomic and Financial Data

Introduction (Gilles Dufr幯ot and Takashi Matsuki, eds)
Part I. Macroeconometrics and international financeChapter 1. Quantile and copula spectrum: a new approach to investigate cyclical dependence in economic time seriesGilles Dufr幯ot, Takashi Matsuki and Kimiko Sugimoto1.-Introduction: why using quantile spectrum?2.- Quantile spectrum: non-parametric and parametric Methods2.1.- Non-parametric approach2.2.- Parametric approach: quantile spectrum and quantile regression models3.- Copula spectral density and rank-based Laplace periodogram4. Estimating quantile spectrum using software4.1.-Estimation of non-parametric quantile spectrum using RATS estima4.2.- Using R package to estimate quantile spectrum and cross spectrumReferencesChapter 2. On the seemingly incompleteness of the exchange rate pass-trough to import pricesAntonia Lopez-Villavicencio and Val廨ie Mignon1.-Introduction2.- Methodology3.-data3.1.-Time sample3.2- Variables3.3- Indicators of globalization3.4.- Descriptive statistics4.- Results4.1.- Accounting for globalization4.2.- Using disaggregated data accounting for the good level4.3.- Accounting for globalization at the good level5. ConclusionReferencesChapter 3. A state-space model to estimate potential growth in the industrialized countriesThomas Brand, Gilles Dufr幯ot, Antoine Mayerowitz1.- Introduction2.- is potential growth led by financial variables: a simple Bayesian estimation3.- A State-space model with theoretical relationships3.1.- The general model3.2.-Sub-models and comparison with other models used in the literature3.3.-Estimation methods3.4.- Data and methods3.5.- ConclusionReferences
Chapter 4.- A top-down method for rational bubbles: application of the threshold bounds testing approach to the Japanese, UK and US Financial marketsJun Nagayasu1.-Introduction2.-The threshold autoregressive distributed lag model (T-ADRL)3.-Application: testing bubbles4.- ConclusionReferencesChapter 5.- An analysis of the time-varying behavior of the equilibrium velocity of money in the euro areaMariam Camarero, Juan Sapena and Cecilio Tamarit1.- Introduction: the shockingly low money velocity in the Euro Area (EA) and its consequences2.- Money demand and velocity: income and transactions3.- A short review of the literature4.- Methodology and estimation.4.1.-A time-varying parameters State-Space framework for panel data.4.2.- An application to the money velocity in the EA.5.- ConclusionsReferencesChapter 6.- Revisiting wealth effects in France: a double-nonlinearity approachOlivier Damette and Fredj Jawadi1.- Introduction2.- Econometric methodology2.1. Linear cointegration specification for wealth effects2.2. Threshold ECM effects for wealth effects2.3. Time varying VECM specification for wealth effects3. Data and empirical analysis3.1. Data and preliminary analysis
3.2. The linear cointegration analysis3.3. Nonlinear cointegration with asymmetric adjustment3.4. NECMs with nonlinearity in the long-run5.- ConclusionsReferencesPart II. Financial econometricsChapter 7.- Econometrics of commoditiesJean-Fran蔞is Carpantier1.-Introduction2.- Tests of the Prebisch-Singer hypothesis3.- Tests of the commodity currenc