If oil exporters stabilize the purchasing power of their export revenues in terms of imports, exchange rate developments (and particularly, developments in the US dollar/euro exchange rate) may contain information about oil price changes. This hypothesis depends on three conditions: (a) OPEC has...

State space models with nonstationary processes and fixed regression effects require a state vector with diffuse initial conditions. Different likelihood functions can be adopted for the estimation of parameters in time series models with diffuse initial conditions. In this paper we consider...

We propose a new method for estimating common factors of multiple time series. One distinctive feature of the new approach is that it is applicable to some nonstationary time series. The unobservable, nonstationary factors are identified by expanding the white noise space step by step, thereby...

This paper has a twofold purpose; the first is to present a small macroeconomic model in state space form, the second is to demonstrate that it produces accurate forecasts. The first of these objectives is achieved by fitting two forms of a structural state space macroeconomic model to Australian...

State space models with nonstationary processes and fixed regression effects require a state vector with diffuse initial conditions. Different likelihood functions can be adopted for the estimation of parameters in time series models with diffuse initial conditions. In this paper we consider...

This paper investigates the impact of changes in the U.S. dollar/euro exchange rate on crude oil prices. The negative correlation of these two variables is ascribed to five possible channels: on the supply side, the purchasing power of oil export revenues and on the demand side, local prices in...

This discussion paper led to an article in the <I>Journal of Time Series Analysis</I> (2010). Vol. 31, pages 407-414.<P> State space models with nonstationary processes and fixed regression effects require a state vector with diffuse initial conditions. Different likelihood functions can be adopted for...</p></i>

State space models with nonstationary processes and fixed regression effects require a state vector with diffuse initial conditions. Different likelihood functions can be adopted for the estimation of parameters in time series models with diffuse initial conditions. In this paper we consider...

This paper considers a multivariate extension of the test for neglected nonlinearity proposed by Tsay (1986) that uses principal components to overcome the problem of dimensionality that is common with tests of this type. Monte Carlo experiments reveal that the modified multivariate test...