In this paper, we study ordinary backfitting and smooth backfitting as methods of fitting varying coefficient quantile models. We do this in a unified framework that accommodates various types of varying coefficient models. Our framework also covers the additive quantile model as a special case....

In many structural economic models there are no good arguments for additive separability of the error. Recently, this motivated intensive research on non-separable structures. For instance, in Hoderlein and Mammen (2007) a non-separable model in the single equation case was considered, and it...

High‐dimensional non‐stationary time series, which reveal both complex trends and stochastic behaviour, occur in many scientific fields, e.g. macroeconomics, finance, neuroeconomics, etc. To model these, we propose a generalized dynamic semi‐parametric factor model with a two‐step...