We compare the numerical methods that are most widely applied in the computation of the standard business cycle model with flexible labor. The numerical techniques imply economically insignificant differences with regard to business cycle summary statistics except for the volatility of...

In many situations, we want to verify the existence of a relationship between multivariate time series. Here, we propose a semiparametric approach for testing the independence between two infinite order vector autoregressive (VAR()) series which is an extension of Hong's (1996a) univariate...

With the fast development of financial products and services, bank’s credit departments collected large amounts of data, which risk analysts use to build appropriate credit scoring models to evaluate an applicant’s credit risk accurately. One of these models is the Multi-Criteria...

Under the condition that the observations, which come from a high-dimensional population (X,Y), are strongly stationary and strongly-mixing, through using the local linear method, we investigate, in this paper, the strong Bahadur representation of the nonparametric M-estimator for the unknown...

The mean shift (MS) algorithm is a non-parametric, iterative technique that has been used to find modes of an estimated probability density function (pdf). Although the MS algorithm has been widely used in many applications, such as clustering, image segmentation, and object tracking, a rigorous...

This paper extends Kiefer, Vogelsang, and Bunzel (2000) and Kiefer and Vogelsang (2002b) to propose a class of over-identifying restrictions (OIR) tests that are robust to heteroskedasticity and serial correlations of unknown form. These OIR tests do not require consistent estimation of the...

We propose new over-identifying restriction (OIR) tests that are robust to heteroskedasticity and serial correlations of unknown form. The proposed tests do not require consistent estimation of the asymptotic covariance matrix and hence avoid choosing the bandwidth in nonparametric kernel...

This study employs a parametric approach based on TGARCH and GARCH models to estimate the VaR of the copper futures market and spot market in China. Considering the short selling mechanism in the futures market, the paper introduces two new notions: upside VaR and extreme upside risk spillover....

In this paper, the local polynomial fit based on the kernel weighted local-likelihood function and the location of the change point is considered as an estimator for the regression function or its νth derivative. Using the data sets split by the location, we estimate the left and right parts of...

In this paper, we propose interior-point algorithms for <InlineEquation ID="IEq3"> <EquationSource Format="TEX">$$P_* (\kappa )$$</EquationSource> </InlineEquation>-linear complementarity problem based on a new class of kernel functions. New search directions and proximity measures are defined based on these functions. We show that if a strictly feasible starting point is available,...</equationsource></inlineequation>