Recent work in econometrics has provided large bandwidth asymptotic theory for taper-based studentized estimates of the mean, in the context of nonparametric estimation for serially correlated time series data. These taper-based statistics can be viewed as estimates of the spectral density at...

We propose a new monetary policy surprise measure based on cojumps in tick-data of a short and long term interest rate. We extend a recently proposed test for cojumps to distinguish policy announcements that shift the short and long end of the yield curve in the same direction (level shift) and...

This paper studies taper-based estimates of the spectral density utilizing a fixed bandwidth ratio asymptotic framework, and makes several theoretical contributions: (i) we treat multiple frequencies jointly, (ii) we allow for long-range dependence or anti-persistence at differing frequencies,...

Time series analysis under stationary assumption has been well established. However, stationary time series models are not plausible to describe the real world. Indeed, relatively long stretches of time series data should contain either slow or rapid changes in the spectra. To develop a general...