Monte Carlo simulations are a very powerful way to demonstrate the basic sampling properties of various statistics in econometrics. The commercial software package Stata makes these methods accessible to a wide audience of students and practitioners. The purpose of this chapter is to present a...

Tail-dependence evolution for the symmetrized Joe–Clayton copula is proposed to depend on an exponentially weighted moving average (EWMA) of the absolute difference in probability integral transforms. Using these dynamics, time-varying tail dependence between bank and insurance equity prices...

In this chapter, we examine the relationship between the cyclical components of output, the price level and the inflation rate. During the post-war period, there is a negative correlation between output and the price level and a positive correlation between output and the inflation rate. A phase...

In this chapter, using a combination of long-run and sign restrictions to identify aggregate monetary and productivity factors, I find that the monetary factor is responsible for long swings in nominal variables but has little effect on fluctuations in output, real wage, or labor input growth....

Most spatial econometrics work focuses on spatial dependence in the regressand or disturbances. However, Lesage and Pace (2009) as well as Pace and LeSage2009 showed that the bias in β from applying OLS to a regressand generated from a spatial autoregressive process was exacerbated by spatial...

In the context of competing IV econometric models and estimators, we demonstrate a semiparametric Stein-like estimator (SSLE) that, under quadratic loss, has superior risk performance. The method eliminates the need for pretesting to decide whether covariate endogeneity is present and makes use...

This chapter studies the asymptotic properties of within-groups k-class estimators in a panel data model with weak instruments. Weak instruments are characterized by the coefficients of the instruments in the reduced form equation shrinking to zero at a rate proportional to nTδ, where n is the...