This paper utilises distributional random forests as a flexible machine learning method for analysing income distributions. Distributional random forests avoid parametric assumptions, capture complex interactions among covariates, and, once trained, provide full estimates of conditional income...

In this paper we study a class of weighted estimands, which we define as parameters that can be expressed as weighted averages of the underlying heterogeneous treatment effects. The popular ordinary least squares (OLS), two-stage least squares (2SLS), and two-way fixed effects (TWFE) estimands...

To address a key issue in functional time series analysis on testing the randomness of an observed series, we propose an IID test for functional time series by generalizing the Brock-Dechert-Scheinkman (BDS) test, which is commonly used for testing nonlinear independence. Similarly to the BDS...

We devise two algorithms for approximating solutions of PSDisation, a problem in actuarial science and finance, to find the nearest valid correlation matrix that is positive semidefinite (PSD). The first method converts the PSDisation problem with a positive semidefinite constraint and other...

We propose a new rank-based test for the number of common primitive shocks, q, in large panel data. After estimating a VAR(1) model on r static factors extracted by principal component analysis, we estimate the number of common primitive shocks by testing the rank of the VAR residuals'...

We propose a novel nonparametric minimum-distance estimator for the estimation of simulation models. Our approach leverages a nonparametric smoothing step to approximate the distance between real-world observations and data simulated from a model, allowing for the estimation of model parameters...

In the analysis of multivariate stochastic volatility models, many estimation procedures begin by transforming the data, taking the logarithm of the squared returns to obtain a linear state space model. A well-known series representation links the correlations between elements of the observation...

This paper develops a semiparametric estimation method that jointly identifies the probability weighting and utility functions implicit in option prices. Our econometric method avoids direct specification of the objective conditional return distributions, which are instead obtained by...