Recent Developments in Nonlinear Cointegration with Applications to Macroeconomics and Finance - Hardcover

Dufrénot, Gilles; Mignon, Valérie

 
9781402070297: Recent Developments in Nonlinear Cointegration with Applications to Macroeconomics and Finance

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This book is an introductory exposition of different topics that emerged in the literature as unifying themes between two fields of econometrics of time series, namely nonlinearity and nonstationarity. Papers on these topics have exploded over the last two decades, but they are rarely ex­ amined together. There is, undoubtedly, a variety of arguments that justify such a separation. But there are also good reasons that motivate their combination. People who are reluctant to a combined analysis might argue that nonlinearity and nonstationarity enhance non-trivial problems, so their combination does not stimulate interest in regard to plausibly increased difficulties. This argument can, however, be balanced by other ones of an economic nature. A predominant idea, today, is that a nonstationary series exhibits persistent deviations from its long-run components (either deterministic or stochastic trends). These persistent deviations are modelized in various ways: unit root models, fractionally integrated processes, models with shifts in the time trend, etc. However, there are many other behaviors inherent to nonstationary processes, that are not reflected in linear models. For instance, economic variables with mixture distributions, or processes that are state-dependent, undergo episodes of changing dynamics. In models with multiple long-run equi­ libria, the moving from an equilibrium to another sometimes implies hys­ teresis. Also, it is known that certain shocks can change the economic fundamentals, thereby reducing the possibility that an initial position is re-established after a shock (irreversibility).

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This book is an introductory exposition of different topics that emerged in the literature as unifying themes between two fields of econometrics of time series, namely nonlinearity and nonstationarity. Papers on these topics have exploded over the last two decades, but they are rarely ex­ amined together. There is, undoubtedly, a variety of arguments that justify such a separation. But there are also good reasons that motivate their combination. People who are reluctant to a combined analysis might argue that nonlinearity and nonstationarity enhance non-trivial problems, so their combination does not stimulate interest in regard to plausibly increased difficulties. This argument can, however, be balanced by other ones of an economic nature. A predominant idea, today, is that a nonstationary series exhibits persistent deviations from its long-run components (either deterministic or stochastic trends). These persistent deviations are modelized in various ways: unit root models, fractionally integrated processes, models with shifts in the time trend, etc. However, there are many other behaviors inherent to nonstationary processes, that are not reflected in linear models. For instance, economic variables with mixture distributions, or processes that are state-dependent, undergo episodes of changing dynamics. In models with multiple long-run equi­ libria, the moving from an equilibrium to another sometimes implies hys­ teresis. Also, it is known that certain shocks can change the economic fundamentals, thereby reducing the possibility that an initial position is re-established after a shock (irreversibility).

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This book provides new insights on nonlinear cointegration and error correction models. It seeks to bring together recent developments on the subject that are, up until today, scattered throughout the literature. The authors demonstrate the importance of NECM models for studying partial adjustment problems in macroeconomics and the efficient market hypothesis in finance. Even though papers on nonlinear cointegration are numerous a survey can still be made on the topic.

This book is accessible to a large audience that includes academics working on applied econometrics, practitioners of financial markets and econometric modelling and all persons interested in time series analysis.

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ISBN 10:  1441952764 ISBN 13:  9781441952769
Verlag: Springer, 2010
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