In this article we introduce a robust to outliers Wilcoxon change-point testing procedure, for distinguishing between short-range dependent time series with a change in mean at unknown time and stationary long-range dependent time series. We establish the asymptotic distribution of the test...

Standard panel unit root tests (PURTs) are not robust to breaks in innovation variances. Consequently, recent papers have proposed PURTs that are pivotal in the presence of volatility shifts. The applicability of these tests, however, has been restricted to cases where the data contains only an...

Standard panel unit root tests (PURTs) are not robust to breaks in innovation variances. Consequently, recent papers have proposed PURTs that are pivotal in the presence of volatility shifts. The applicability of these tests, however, has been restricted to cases where the data contains only an...

We consider a class of nonparametric time series regression models in which the regressor takes values in a sequence space and the data are stationary and weakly dependent. We propose an infinite dimensional Nadaraya-Watson type estimator with a bandwidth sequence that shrinks the effects of...

We consider a class of nonparametric time series regression models in which the regressor takes values in a sequence space and the data are stationary and weakly dependent. We propose an infinite dimensional Nadaraya-Watson type estimator with a bandwidth sequence that shrinks the effects of...

This preprint reviews several statistical tests for (out-of-sample) forecast evaluation. In particular, it contains formulations and discussions of assumptions underlying these tests. Moreover, the preprint extends the applicability of the prediction accuracy tests of Giacomini and White (2006)...

In this paper, a new resampling procedure, called the wild tapered block bootstrap, is introduced as a means of calculating standard errors of estimators and constructing confidence regions for parameters based on dependent heterogeneous data. The method consists in tapering each overlapping...