In this paper, we detect and correct abnormal returns in 17 French stocks returns and the French index CAC40 from additive-outlier detection method in GARCH models developed by Franses and Ghijsels (1999) and extended to innovative outliers by Charles and Darné (2005). We study the effects of...

We study the probability of rejecting the seasonal unit root tests developed by Hylleberg et al. when they are applied to fractionally integrated seasonal time series. We find that these tests have quite low power and that they lead to a risk of over-differencing. The forecasting performance of...

This paper compares the GDP forecasting performance of alternative factor models based on monthly time series for the French economy. These models are based on static and dynamic principal components obtained using time and frequency domain methods. We question whether it is more appropriate to...