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We reconsider the replication problem for contingent claims in a complete market under a general framework. Since there are various limitations in the Black–Scholes pricing formula, we propose a new method to obtain an explicit self-financing trading strategy expression for replications of...
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Maximum likelihood estimation (MLE) of stochastic differential equations (SDEs) is difficult because in general the transition density function of these processes is not known in closed form, and has to be approximated somehow. An approximation based on efficient importance sampling (EIS) is...
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Estimation of retail demand is critical to decisions about procuring, shipping, and shelving. The idea of Poisson demand process is central to retail inventory management and numerous studies suggest that negative binomial (NB) distribution characterize retail demand well. In this study we...
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This paper derives explicit expressions for the asymptotic variances of the maximum likelihood and continuously updated GMM estimators under potentially misspecified models. The proposed misspecification-robust variance estimators allow the researcher to conduct valid inference on the model...
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This paper introduces a novel way of differentiating a unit root from a stationary alternative. We write up the model consisting of zero and nonzero parameters. If the lagged dependent variable has a coefficient of zero, we know that the variable has a unit root. We exploit this property and...
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Understanding the process of economic growth involves comparing competing theoretical models and evaluating their empirical relevance. Our approach is to take the neoclassical stochastic growth model directly to the data and make inferences about the model parameters of interest. In this paper,...
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State space models with nonstationary processes and fixed regression effects require a state vector with diffuse initial conditions. Different likelihood functions can be adopted for the estimation of parameters in time series models with diffuse initial conditions. In this paper we consider...
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Most DSGE models and methods make inappropriate asymmetric information assumptions. They assume that all economic agents have full access to measurement of all variables and past shocks, whereas the econometricians have no access to this. An alternative assumption is that there is symmetry, in...
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In this study, I investigate the necessary condition for consistency of the maximum likelihood estimator (MLE) of spatial models with a spatial moving average process in the disturbance term. I show that the MLE of spatial autoregressive and spatial moving average parameters is generally...
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